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Cultivation is clarified as relying on the Buddha as the true model, using the three karmas of body, speech, and mind to emulate pure conduct. The teaching also distinguishes building a protective wall of good karma from trying to remove cause and effect, and shows how right view underpins all liberating states toward Buddhahood.","THE DHARMA OF CULTIVATION  \nTRANSMITTED BY  \nH.H. DORJE CHANG BUDDHA III  \nAn oral discourse on the Dharma imparted by His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III to  \nrinpoches and other disciples:  \nWHAT IS CULTIVATION?  \nToday you, who are a rinpoche, respectfully requested a discourse on the Dharma relating to the question “What is cultivation?” This is a very fundamental lesson; indeed, the first lesson. Nonetheless, this is an important matter that many cultivators, including those who have practiced cultivation over many years, do not understand and are confused about. It is difficult to incarnate asa human being. It is even more difficult to incarnate as a human being with the opportunity to encounter the true Buddha Dharma. Thus, today I will enlighten everyone on Dharma relating to the question “What is cultivation?”  \nThe essence of learning Buddhism lies with carrying out what we learn in our cultivation. We use good and bad causes and conditions as objects of cognition. Therefore, we must first understand what cultivation is. Cultivation is cultivating the increase of good karma and cultivating the avoidance of bad karma. It is increasing good karmic conditions, planting good causes, andreaping good effects. It is avoiding the increase of bad karmic conditions, not planting bad causes, and avoiding the reaping of bad effects. But the term cultivation has a rather broad meaning. We must first understand what cultivation is.  \nThere must be that upon which the cultivator can rely. Without that which can be relied upon, your cultivation can easily become erroneous, non-Buddhist cultivation. For example, the cultivation of demonism entails cultivating the behavior of demons. The cultivation of Buddhism  \nentails cultivating the behavior of Buddhas. Therefore, there must be that upon which the cultivator can rely. There must be models that the cultivator can reflect and rely upon.  \nAll other religions espouse eliminating evil, promoting good, restraining selfishness, and benefiting others. The cultivator cannot rely upon this alone, for this is cultivation without understanding the purpose of Buddhism. This alone is not the practice of true Buddhism. Thus, in our cultivation, that which we rely upon is the Buddha. The perfect enlightenment of the Buddha is the model for our cultivation. We use our three karmas of bodily actions, speech, and thoughts to emulate everything about the Buddha. We thereby keep ourselves far away from all impure karma based on delusion and all evil conduct. We thereby constantly stay far away from that which is evil or bad. By not being involved with that which is evil or bad, our three karmas do not increase bad causes. Rather, we must carry out all good karma. Even one kind thought is something we should increase and never decrease. We should increase our good karmic affinity, good causes, and good karma every day. Simply put, we must always avoid that which is evil or bad and accumulate that which is good.  \nWhy can it be said that we must stay far away from evil or bad karma but it cannot be said that we must eliminate evil or bad karma? Within the truth of Buddhism, there is the doctrine that the law of cause and effect can never be denied. Cause and effect cannot be eliminated. To say that it can is to take a nihilistic point of view. Hence, we can only build a wall of good karma, which is like building a retaining wall. This wall of good karma has the effect of blocking us from our evil karma.  \nThus, only through learning from the Buddha, cultivating the conduct of the Buddha, and ultimately becoming a Buddha can we thoroughly liberate ourselves from the karma (cause and effect) that binds us to the cycle of reincarnation. Cause and effect still exists when one becomes a Buddha. However, cause and effect can not affect a Buddha. For example, the Buddha saw mountains of swords and seas of fire in the hell realm. 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True cultivation is not just general efforts to eliminate evil and promote good without understanding the purpose of Buddhism.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is right view essential for the results of cultivation?\",\"answer\":\"All real states from practices like renunciation and bodhicitta rely on right view. 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