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Bliss Mind Training
Category: Health
Duration: 00:58:22
Publish Date: 2023-05-31 22:00:00
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Lojong, or mind training, is a core practice in all the lineages of the Tibetan tradition. They can perhaps best be characterized as a method for transforming our mind by turning away from self-centeredness and cultivating instead the mental habits that generate bodhicitta, the awakened mind that puts the benefit of others above all else. The teachings on it are more diverse than many people realize.

 

The lojong teachings include instruction in formless meditation, in the practice of “sending and taking” (tonglen), and in postmeditation practice—putting our meditation into action in our daily lives.  These are the primary slogans for Lojong

 

1. First train in the preliminaries

 

2. Regard all dharmas as dreams

 

3. Examine the nature of unborn awareness

 

4. Self-liberate even the antidote

 

5. Rest in the nature of alaya, the essence

 

6. In post-meditation, be a child of illusion

 

6.1. Absolute and Relative Bodhichitta

 

7. Sending and taking should be practiced alternately. These two should ride the breath

 

8. Three objects, three poisons, and three seeds of virtue

 

9. In all activities train with slogans

 

10. Begin the sequence of sending and taking with yourself

 

11. When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of bodhi

 

12. Drive all blames into one

 

13. Be grateful to everyone

 

14. Seeing confusion as the four kayas is unsurpassable shunyata protection

 

15. Four practices are the best of methods

 

16. Whatever you meet unexpectedly, join it with meditation

 

17. Practice the five strengths, the condensed heart instructions

 

18. The ejection of consciousness

 

19. All dharma agrees at one point

 

20. Of the two witnesses, hold the principal one

 

21. Always maintain only a joyful mind

 

22. If you can practice even when distracted, you are well trained

 

23. Always abide by the three basic principles

 

24. Change your attitude, but remain natural

 

25. Don’t talk about injured limbs

 

26. Don’t ponder others

 

27. Work with the greatest defilements first

 

28. Abandon any hope of fruition

 

29. Abandon poisonous food

 

30. Don’t be so predictable

 

31. Don’t malign others

 

32. Don’t wait in ambush

 

33. Don’t bring things to a painful point

 

34. Don’t transfer the ox’s load to the cow

 

35. Don’t try and be the fastest

 

36. Don’t act with a twist

 

37. Don’t make gods into demons

 

38. Don’t seek others’ pain as the limbs of your own happiness

 

39. All activities should be done with one intention

 

40. Correct all wrongs with one intention

 

41. Two activities: one at the beginning, one at the end

 

42. Whichever of the two occurs, be patient

 

43. Observe these two, even at the risk of your life

 

44. Train in the three difficulties

 

45. Take on the three principal causes

 

46. Pay heed that the three never wane

 

47. Keep the three inseparable

 

48. Train without bias in all areas. It is crucial always to do this pervasively and wholeheartedly

 

49. Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment

 

50. Don’t be swayed by external circumstances

 

51. This time, practice the main points

 

52. Don’t misinterpret

 

53. Don’t vacillate

 

54. Train wholeheartedly

 

55. Liberate yourself by examining and analyzing

 

56. Don’t wallow in self-pity

 

57. Don’t be jealous

 

58. Don’t be frivolous

 

59. Don’t expect applause

 
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