Lama Kathy Wesley begins by demonstrating that to experience the happiness we seek, we must first transform our habit of self-cherishing. By training in loving kindness and compassion, Lojong Practice provides the antidote for self-cherishing and, therefore, the foundation for genuine happiness. However, we must first tame our mind. Therefore, Lama Kathy teaches samatha and leads a practice session. Lama Kathy explains that The Seven Points of Mind Training is not simply a collection of slogans. Rather it is a complete system of practice starting with preliminaries and leading to enlightenment. She then presents mind training Preliminary Practices (Point 1). The main practice is Training in Ultimate and Relative Bodhicitta (Point 2). After presenting four contemplations on Ultimate Bodhicitta, Lama Kathy dedicates an entire talk to Relative Bodhicitta practices of formal and post-meditation sending and taking. She provides detailed practice instructions, leads a guided practice session, and takes questions. She concludes by explaining where Mind Training fits in the three-yana journey and by teaching Point 3: Transforming Adverse Circumstances into the Path. Lama Kathy gives opportunities for questions throughout this teaching. These talks are based on Thrangu Rinpoche's Heart of the Dharma, and Jamgon Kongtrul's Great Path of Awakening. Five talks and on one MP3 CD.

Seven Points of Mind Training, Lama Kathy Wesley, Vajra Echoes, 1 MP3 CD, 2015, $30.00

Lama Kathy Wesley begins her teaching by demonstrating that all mental afflictions arise from a 'stampede' of thoughts. Shamatha meditation provides the foundation for transforming mental afflictions by giving us control over our minds, allowing us to accept or reject thoughts and emotions as they arise. She then presents Slow Reversal, a mindfulness-based post-meditation method for transforming mental afflictions. In talk two Lama Kathy teaches that cultivating loving kindness through the Mahayana practice of Tonglen provides a beneficial other-oriented antidote that we can adopt in the gap created by Slow Reversal. Lama Kathy devotes all of talk three to discussing anger, explaining the sources and negative aspects of anger and showing how to transform anger using Slow Reversal and Tonglen, and by looking directly at anger. This three-yana approach to transforming emotions culminates in talk four, where Lama Kathy describes the symbolism of Chenrezig as a foundation for explaining how vajrayana deity practices transform mental afflictions.