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Although lay and monastic vows for individual liberation (pratimoksha vows) last only one lifetime, bodhisattva and tantric vows remain with the stream of continuity from one life to the next, shaping the mind-stream all the way until enlightenment.
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The continuity of experience is known as the mind-stream, or "mental-continuum."
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Vows are also subtle forms that travel with and shape the mind-stream, fashioning our physical, verbal and mental behavior.
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Telling a lie is really a grievous moral breach in the Buddhist world-view because it is a means of directly implanting delusion in another being's mind-stream, and delusion or ignorance can be called the ultimate root of all suffering.
Speedlinking 8/30/07 William Harryman 2007
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A mental continuum (sems-rgyud, mind-stream) is an individual everlasting sequence of moments of mental activity.
Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness 2006
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I request you bestow on my mind-stream inspiring strength.
Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 2003
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I request you bestow on my mind-stream inspiring strength.
Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 2003
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May I mature my mind-stream with their paths shared in common.
Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 2003
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I request you bestow on my mind-stream inspiring strength.
Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 2003
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May I mature my mind-stream with their paths shared in common.
Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 2003
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