Online Application
Date: 7/1/2015 (Wednesday) – 7/5/2015 (Sunday) ~ Application Starts from 5/1/2015
Theme: Three Trainings – Virtue, Concentration, Wisdom
Three Trainings also bears a name as Three Higher Trainings, they are the Training of Virtue, the Training of Mind (Concentration) and the Training of Wisdom. In the Yogacārabhūmiśāstra, Three Trainings is named as Three Higher Trainings that comprise the Training in the Higher Virtue, the Training in the Higher Mind and the Training in the Higher Wisdom. The Training in Virtue gives away the meaning of upholding one’s disciplines. Depending on virtue, one nourishes morality to refinement energetically. Accordingly, through refinement of virtue, one casts away lust and other unwholesome mental factors, a practitioner proceeds to advance mental states like the first dhyāna/jhāna (absorption) andhigher absorption, this is called the Training in Mind or Concentration. The Training in Higher Wisdom is defined in the Yogacārabhūmiśāstra: In four noble truths and so forth, one perceives in such a way to all phenomena, is called the Training in Higher Wisdom. Six perfections (Pāramita) also can be laid out into Three Trainings. For example, the perfection of generosity and of virtue, are belonged to Training in Virtue; perfection of energy and of absorption are connected to Training in Mind (Concentration); the last two perfections, the perfection of patience and of wisdom take place in Training in Wisdom. In general, Training in Virtue includes the disciplines for lay people and monastic members to install advancement in virtue. Training in Mind fosters and develops one-pointed mind, ensuring the sublime concentration. Without dispensing the two trainings aforementioned, a practitioner advances to perceive four noble truths and all the true nature of phenomena, this is how the Training in Wisdom is fulfilled.
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