The ten needful things: 1. As a deer escapes out of the cistern after much effort, so is it needful for the practitioner at the beginning to generate the genuine faith from fear of birth and death and believe in this practice absolutely in order to escape the cycle of death and rebirth. 2. It is needful for the diligent to harvest virtuous deeds at the middle stage of a practitioner like a farmer having a good harvest after sowing good seeds, so that there will be nothing to regret at the time of death. 3. In the end it is needful to try to achieve an imperishable mind as the holy person tries for the bliss of the mind and achieve it. 4. It is needful to immediately busy oneself in the meditation knowing the shortage of time like someone trying to immediately save himself being pierced by an arrow. 5. In the middle stage, it is needful for the practitioner to have undisturbed meditation like the feelings of a mother for her only son who has recently died. 6. In the end it is needful for the practitioner to protect himself from doing meaningless activities as well as to remain alert just as a cow remains alert to save her calf from predators as well as tries to feed the calf with the best food. A Precious Garland of the Supreme Path 47 7. It is needful for the novice practitioner to be happy by generating confidence(52)and certainty towards Dharma like a hungry person feeling happy after getting delicious food to eat. 8. In the middle stage it is needful for the practitioner to be happy by generating confidence and certainty towards one’s own mind like a pauper being happy getting a jewel. 9. In the end, it is needful for a practitioner to generate confidence towards non-duality for practice like a liar being single-minded to speaking lies. 10. It is needful for a practitioner to have resolute of realities like a crow flying away from the ship. 52). The result of the perfect examination of the Buddhist teachings and treatises we generate the strong belief in Karma and action, rebirth, liberation and the Enlightenment without imitation which is the authenticated generation of all phenomena.
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