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Mind Training (Lojong)

Mind Training (Lojong)

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Texts on so-called mind training (blo sbyong), the system of practical instructions for developing the compassion and wisdom of bodhicitta:

Aspiration Prayers

by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
This prayer of aspiration for training the mind in bodhicitta by exchanging all the world's suffering for genuine happiness is based on Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye's longer text, The Gateway to the Ocean of Bodhicitta.
Aspiration Prayers Bodhicitta
by Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe
A prayer of aspiration that incorporates the central principles and key terminology of the lojong (blo sbyong) or 'mind training' tradition according to the Mahāyāna.
Aspiration Prayers
by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
This aspiration, written during an unspecified snake year, incorporates the key elements of the Mind Training teachings, such as taking on others' suffering and giving away one's own happiness, and perfecting relative and absolute bodhicitta.
Aspiration Prayers
by Patrul Rinpoche
This prayer of aspiration covers the entire Buddhist path, but places special emphasis on the cultivation of bodhicitta in its various forms. For to have bodhicitta, says Patrul Rinpoche, is to have "all that's needed to attain enlightenment."
Bodhicitta Aspiration Prayers Nyingma Mönlam

Dzogchen

by Longchen Rabjam
Belonging to the Lama Yangtik, these are the seven preliminary contemplations of: 1) impermanence, 2) temporary and lasting happiness, 3) manifold conditions, 4) the futility of ordinary enterprises, 5) the qualities of buddhahood, 6) the guru's instructions, and 7) non-conceptuality.
Lama Yangtik Restricted

Eight Verses of Training the Mind

by Geshe Langri Thangpa
These eight verses, which are now regularly transmitted around the world by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, succinctly convey the compassionate attitude, humility and uncompromising vision of a true bodhisattva—as encapsulated in the text's most famous and most striking lines: "I will take defeat upon myself and give the victory to others.

Lojong (general)

by Atiśa Dīpaṃkara
This short text (Bodhisattvamaṇyāvalī in Sanskrit), which is included in the Middle Way section of the Tengyur (Toh 3951), is regarded as a classic work of the Mind Training (blo sbyong) tradition. With its direct and pithy language, it is not so much a poem as a series of maxims on the bodhisattva path.
Advice Tengyur Damngak Dzö
by Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima
One of Jigme Tenpe Nyima's best known works—and indeed one the most famous Tibetan texts of recent times—this is a pithy and practical guide to integrating all experiences, good and bad, happy and sad, into the path to enlightenment. As the text itself puts it, this is “indispensable for leading a spiritual life, a most needed tool of the Noble Ones, and quite the most priceless teaching in the world.”
Advice
by Geshe Langri Thangpa
Taken from a collection called Miscellaneous Sayings of the Saintly Masters of the Kadam Tradition (bka' gdams kyi skyes bu dam pa rnams kyi gsung bgros thor bu ba rnams) edited by the 11th/12th century teachers Chegom Sherab Dorje (lce sgom shes rab rdo rje) and Kharak Gomchung Wangchuk Lodrö (kha rag sgom chung dbang phyug blo gros).
by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo
This is a classic work on 'bringing difficult circumstances onto the path' (lam khyer), a subgenre of mind training. Tokme Zangpo reveals what it is like to live beyond hopes and fears, and how to face sickness, poverty and death (as well as good health, prosperity and long-life) with joy.
Sickness & Healing Advice
by Longchen Rabjam
Longchen Rabjam tells us that he composed these thirty verses of heartfelt advice for himself and others like him, out of a sense of renunciation. In what has become one of his most famous and popular teachings, he advocates simplicity, ethical discipline, humility, and, above all, diligent practice.
Advice
by Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa
One of the great Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa's most famous teachings, this short text highlights the importance of renunciation, the motivation of bodhicitta, and the wisdom that realises the nature of things.
Lamrim Damngak Dzö

Seven Points of Mind Training

by Geshe Chekhawa Yeshe Dorje
One of the most important and influential works of mind training composed in Tibet, this series of slogans was first composed—that is, written down—by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (1101–1175) according to the tradition of Atiśa Dīpaṃkara (982–1055?). The seven points cover: 1) the preliminaries, 2) main practice, 3) transformation of adversity, 4) lifelong application of the practice, 5) measures of progress, 6) commitments, and 7) precepts.
Damngak Dzö
by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo
This is among the best known and most commonly taught commentaries on the popular mind training slogans. The author, famous for his Thirty-Seven Practices of the Bodhisattvas, writes in the style of the pith instructions, in plain and simple language.
Damngak Dzö
by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo
A supplication to the lineage of the Seven Points of Mind Training (blo sbyong don bdun ma), or Verses of Mahāyāna Mind Training.
Lineage Prayers Damngak Dzö Compendium of Sādhanas
by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
These notes on the Seven Points of Mind Training appear to derive from the celebrated commentary of Sé Chilbu Chökyi Gyaltsen (1121–1189). Unfortunately the notes do not cover the entire root text and their brevity is suggestive of lecture notes or an aide-memoire.
Notes
by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
Jamyang Khyentse composed this prayer for perfecting the Seven Points of Mind Training (blo sbyong don bdun ma) when he was in the presence of the famous Atiśa statue at the Tārā Temple in Nyethang (snye thang). The section headings were added by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
Kadam Khyentse Kabab

Thirty-Seven Practices

by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo
One of the most famous native Tibetan texts on mind training, this classic by Tokme Zangpo summarises the teachings of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra and other sources, in order to present the path of the bodhisattva in just thirty-seven four-line verses.
Advice

Parting from the Four Attachments

A series of texts related to the famous four-line instruction that Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092–1158) received from Mañjuśrī.
7 texts

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Advice Bodhicaryāvatāra Bodhicitta Lamrim Parting from the Four Attachments

Atīśa Dīpaṃkara

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BDRC T393 (blo sbyong)

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