Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 24-34

Verse 24

• Companions not getting along
• Maintaining good character wherever we are
• Not having ulterior motives
• Being a pleasant person

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Verse 25

• Harboring evil intention towards others
• Others appearing as enemies to us

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Verse 26

• Misusing possessions
• Having chronic disease

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Verse 27

Breaking our vows and precepts causes sudden acute health problems. Avoid breaking even basic commitments.

• Having sudden acute health problem

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Verses 28-29

• Obscurations in our minds
• Misguided actions like choosing worldly things instead of Dharma
• Disrespecting teachers and text
• Finding Dharma teachings hard to understand
• Falling asleep or being slothful during Dharma practice

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Verse 30

• Meditating on death and impermanence, disadvantages of cyclic existence
• Be disenchanted by samsaric pleasures
• Find true, enduring happiness from Dharma
• Delighting in afflictions and greatly distracted

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Verses 31-32

• Not living in the laws of cause and effect, one regresses
• For pujas and prayers to be effective, one must have good karma
• Things get worse instead of better
• Relying on forces of darkness

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Verse 33

• Prayers to Three Jewels remain ineffectual
• If we invest our lives in creating the causes of goodness, goodness will come

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Verse 34

• Vanquish negative conceptions
• Unless we have created the karma to be harmed, we will not be harmed

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