Freedoms & Endowments

The root of the Dharma is the mind, and the whole of the Dharma depends on it. In turn, the mind is dependent on the precious human body. This is an interdependent relationship of support and the supported: the mind is the root of the Dharma, and the freedoms and advantages are the necessary support or accessory for this. For this reason, one needs to train only in taming the mind, as Nagarjuna advises:

The vital point is to tame your mind.’

The Great Omniscient One says:

The Dharma depends on the mind,

And that depends, interdependently, on the freedoms and advantages.

Now that the many causes and conditions have come together,

Tame your mind—that is the main point of the Dharma.’

The sufferings of fear and poverty that occur throughout this life, and will occur in subsequent lives, are the negative consequences of using your precious human body to indulge in pointless distractions. Conversely, all the happiness and good qualities of higher rebirth and ultimate excellence come solely from not wasting the freedoms and advantages.

As we read in the Sutra of the Arborescent Array:

‘Child of noble family, it has never occurred to those who wander in cyclic existence that their body, ornamented with the freedoms and advantages, is so difficult to find. Because of their evil friends, they continue to circle in cyclic existence, tormented by the fire of suffering. But I, by reflecting on this supreme freedom, have been completely liberated from existence. You, too, should do likewise.

~ ༧Dudjom RinpochayThe torch lightning  the way to freedom

(Posted by Ngondro – preliminary of foundational vajrayana practices,(Whispers of Wisdom), Facebook, April 22 2026)