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CONTENTS: Achieving Bodhichitta
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Foreword
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viii
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Acknowledgments
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ix
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Editors' Note
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x
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INTRODUCTION
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3
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Lojong, or Mind Training
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5
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The Lojong Lineage Tradition
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6
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The Importance of Right Motivation
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6
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The Power of Bodhichitta
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9
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The Ten Benefits of Achieving Bodhichitta
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11
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The Two Instructions for Achieving Bodhichitta
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14
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PART ONE:
SEVENFOLD CAUSE AND EFFECT INSTRUCTION
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Equanimity
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19
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Step One:
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Recognizing That All Beings Have Been My Mother
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24
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Step Two:
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Recalling the Kindness of All Mother Beings
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33
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A Special Form of Recalling the Kindness of Beings
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34
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Step Three:
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Repaying the Kindness of All Mother Beings
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37
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Step Four:
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Loving-Kindness for All Beings
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46
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The Eight Benefits of Loving-Kindness
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48
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Step Five:
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Great Compassion for All Beings
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50
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Step Six:
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Extraordinary Compassion for All Beings
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53
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Step Seven:
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The Result: Bodhichitta
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55
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Maintaining Bodhichitta in This Life
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57
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Maintaining Bodhichitta in Future Lives
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58
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PART TWO:
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COMMENTARY TO LAMA CHEKAWA'S
SEVEN POINT MIND TRAINING
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63
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First Point:
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Preliminaries
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66
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Leisure and Fortune
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66
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Impermanence
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67
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Taking Refuge
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68
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Karma
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68
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Second Point:
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The Main Instruction on How to Practice Bodhichitta
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70
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Recognizing That Self and Others Are the Same
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71
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Thinking in Many Ways about the Faults of Self-Cherishing Mind
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73
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Thinking in Many Ways about the Benefits of Cherishing Others
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79
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The Three Levels of Motivation
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80
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The Actual Practice of Exchanging Self and Others
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84
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The Practice of
Tonglen, or Giving and Taking
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86
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The Three Kinds of Suffering
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87
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How to Do the Visualization of Taking Suffering
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88
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The Seven Pure Practices for Accumulating Good Karma
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89
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How to Do the Visualization of Giving Happiness
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93
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Giving and Taking with the Breath
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96
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Combining the Two Rivers of Instruction into Eleven Categories
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99
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Third Point:
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The Method of Turning Bad Experiences into Causes for Enlightenment
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105
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Turning Bad Experiences into Good Causes by the Power of Mind
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106
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Turning Bad Causes into Good Causes through Right View
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110
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Turning Bad Experiences into Good Causes through Taking Action by Body and Speech
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113
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Fourth Point:
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A Summary of how to Practice throughout Your Life
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117
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The Five Strengths
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117
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The Five Strengths as Practiced at the Time of Death
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129
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Assuming the Proper Physical Position at the Time of Death
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138
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Fifth Point:
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Signs of Having Mastered the Lojong Instruction
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141
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Sixth Point:
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The Eighteen Lojong Pledges
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154
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Seventh Point:
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The Twenty-two Lojong Precepts
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194
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Right View
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233
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SEVEN POINT MIND TRAINING
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Root Text in Tibetan
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241
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Root Text in English Translation
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249
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APPENDIX:
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Meditation
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259
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Meditation Posture
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259
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Types of Meditation
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261
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Five Enemies of Meditation
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262
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Breathing Meditation
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268
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The Nine Levels of Achieving Quiescence
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270
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Placement
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270
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Continuous Placement
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271
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Renewed Placement
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274
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Close Placement
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275
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Subduing
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276
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Pacification
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277
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Heightened Pacification
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277
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Single-Pointedness
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278
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Equipoise
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278
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Agility
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279
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Agility of Mind
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280
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Agility of Body
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280
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About the Author
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285
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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287
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INDEX
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293
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