Accumulating Virtues
- Maintaining and sustaining bodhisattvas’ morality
- Joyfully making effort in hearing, contemplating, and meditating
- Performing service for honoring all teachers
- Helping and nursing sick people
- Giving properly and proclaiming good qualities
- Rejoicing in others’ merit and patience
- Having patience when others look down on you
- Dedicating virtue toward enlightenment and saying aspiration prayers
- Making offerings to the Triple Gem and making efforts for the virtuous teachings
- Sustaining introspection
- Recollecting the bodhisattvas’ training
- Protecting the bodhisattvas’ training with vigiilant awareness
- Protecting all the sense-doors and moderately eating food
- Making effort in meditation practice without sleeping too early in the evening or too late in the morning
- Attending spiritual masters and authentically holy people
- Investigating your own mistakes and purifying them
Practicing these good qualities, protecting and increasing them are called the moral ethics of accumulating virtues.
Benefitting Sentient Beings
- Supporting meaningful activities
- Dispelling the suffering of sentient beings who are suffering
- Showing the methods to those who do not know them
- Recollecting others’ kindness and then repaying it
- Protecting others from fears and dispelling the mourning of those who are suffering
- Giving necessities to those who do not have them
- Making provisions to bring disciples into the Dharma community and acting according to those people’s level of understanding
- Creating joy by reporting the perfect qualities
- Properly correcting someone who is doing wrong
- Refraining from creating fear with miracle powers
- Causing others to be inspired by the teachings
Source: Gampopa, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche translation, p. 199), citing The Bodhisattvabhumi (The Stage(s) of the Bodhisattva).