![]() ![]() If you can practice even when distracted, you are well trained. Of the two witnesses, hold the principal one - You know yourself better than anyone else knows you All dharma agrees at one point - All Buddhist teachings are about lessening the ego, lessening one’s self-absorption. The Mahayana instruction for ejection of consciousness at death is The Five Strengths : how you conduct yourself is important. When you are dying practice The Five Strengths. The Five Strengths are: strong determination, familiarization, the positive seed, reproach, and aspiration Practice The Five Strengths, the condensed heart instructions. Point Four: Showing the Utilization of Practice in One’s Whole Life Whatever you meet unexpectedly, join with meditation. ![]() The Four Practices are: accumulating merit, laying down evil deeds, offering to the dons, and offering to the dharmapalas. The Four practices are the best of methods. Shunyata can be described as “complete openness.” Thoughts have no birthplace, thoughts are unceasing, thoughts are not solid, and these three characteristics are interconnected. The Four Kayas are Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya, Svabhavikakaya. Seeing confusion as The Four Kayas is unsurpassable shunyata protection. When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of bodhi. Point Three: Transformation of Bad Circumstances into the Way of Enlightenment Begin the sequence of sending and taking with yourself. The Three Roots of Virtue are the remedies. The Three Poisons are craving, aversion and indifference. The Three Objects are friends, enemies and neutrals. Three objects, Three Poisons, Three Roots of Virtue Sending and taking should be practiced alternately. In postmeditation, be a child of illusion. Rest in the nature of alaya, the essence, the present moment. Regard all dharma as dreams although experiences may seem solid, they are passing memories. Point Two: The main practice, which is training in bodhicitta. Obsessing about getting what you want and avoiding what you don’t want does not result in happiness Ego. Contemplate that as long as you are too focused on self-importance and too caught up in thinking about how you are good or bad, you will experience suffering. Recall that whatever you do, whether virtuous or not, has a result Karma.Ĥ. Be aware of the reality that life ends death comes for everyone Impermanence.ģ. Maintain an awareness of the preciousness of human life.Ģ. First, train in the preliminaries The Four Reminders or alternatively called The Four Thoughtsġ. Point One: The preliminaries, which are the basis for dharma practice ![]() The 59 proverbs that form the root text of the mind training practice are designed as a set of antidotes to undesired mental habits that cause suffering. The practice involves refining and purifying one’s motivations and attitudes. It is a mind training practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and is based on a set of aphorisms formulated in Tibet in the 12th century by Geshe Chekhawa. Lojong was originally brought to Tibet by an Indian Buddhist teacher named Atisha. ![]()
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