THREE PRINCIPAL ASPECTS OF THE PATH
VAJRAYANA INSTITUTE, SYDNEY (January 22, 23 & 24 2013)

OVERVIEW

The path to enlightenment can be condensed into three principal aspects:

1) renunciation - the determination to be free from samsara and attain liberation
2) bodhicitta - the aspiration to become fully enlightened in order to benefit all sentient beings
3) wisdom - the wisdom of emptiness realizing the nature of reality.

The text 'The Three Principal Aspects of the Path' by Lama Tsongkhapa outlines these three core elements of the path.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path
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"The three ways thoughts release themselves are
      (1) simply by recognizing them (gcer grol),
      (2) by the power of familiarization (thoughts release themselves like a snake unraveling itself) (shar grol) and
      (3) in the culminating phase there is no way thoughts can help or harm you (like a thief who comes to an empty house) (rang grol).

​In this final phase, thoughts empower your realization of pristine awareness, serving as aids to your practice. ​​Pristine awareness constitutes 'primordial release' (ye grol) for it has never been bound by thoughts.”​ 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Yangthang Rinpoche