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Contents: TRAINING THE MIND IN THE GREAT WAY |
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Foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama |
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Translator's Introduction |
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Atisha and the Lojong Spiritual Legacy |
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The Nature of the Lojong Practice |
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The Tibetan Background |
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The First Dalai Lama |
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A Note on the Textual Rendition |
35 |
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A Concluding Observation |
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Preamble |
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The Venerable Source of the Lineage |
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The Greatness of the Tradition |
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The Actual Instruction |
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Point One: The Preliminaries |
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The Meditation of Guruyoga |
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Making Oneself into a Proper Vessel |
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The Preciousness of Human Life |
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1. The Nature of the Freedoms and Endowments |
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2. Their Extraordinary Value |
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3. Their Rarity |
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4. The Need to Extract Their Essence |
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Death and Impermanence |
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1. The Certainty of Death |
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2. The Uncertainty of the Time of Death |
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3. How Only Spiritual Realization Helps |
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The Karmic Laws of Cause and Effect |
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1. The Nature of Karmic Law |
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A) Contemplating the Suffering of the Hells |
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B) Contemplating the Animal Realms |
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C) Contemplating the Ghost Realms |
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2. In Search of Spiritual Refuge |
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A) The Psychological Basis |
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B) The Objects which Are the Focus |
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C) The Context of Refuge |
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(1) Appreciating the excellence of the Three Jewels |
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(2) Their individual uniqueness |
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(3) The refuge perspective |
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(4) Not mistaking the refuge objects |
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D) Advice for Those Who Have Taken Refuge |
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(1) The advice as found in The Summary |
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(2) The advice given in the oral tradition |
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3. Purifying the Mind of Negative Karma |
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A) The Force of Regret |
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B) The Application of the Antidote |
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C) The Resolve |
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D) The Force of Reliance |
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The Unsatisfactory Nature of Cyclic Existence |
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1. The Human Realm |
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2. The Realm of the Asuras |
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3. The Deva Realms |
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Point Two: The Actual Practice, Cultivating the Two Bodhiminds |
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Developing the Conventional Bodhimind |
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The Causes Giving Rise to the Bodhimind |
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The Actual Steps in the Training |
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1. The Sevenfold Oral Tradition Technique |
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A) The Spiritual Character To Be Generated |
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(1) How compassion is the root |
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(2) How the seven function as cause and effect |
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B) The Actual Stages in Practice |
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(1) Cultivating the mind concerned with others |
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(a) Preparing the basis for this mind |
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(i) recognizing all as a mother |
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(ii) recollecting the kindness of the mother |
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(iii) generating the wish to repay them |
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(b) Actually generating concern for others |
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(iv) meditation upon love |
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(v) meditation upon compassion |
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(vi) meditation upon universal responsibility |
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(2) Cultivating the mind concerned with enlightenment |
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(3) Integrating the fruit of the training |
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2. Exchanging Self-awareness for Awareness of Others |
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A) The Benefits of Doing So and Faults of Not |
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B) The Ability of the Mind to Transform Egotism |
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C) The Stages in the Meditation |
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(1) Identifying the object of all blame |
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(2) Meditating on the kindness of others |
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(3) Cherishing others |
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(4) The actual exchange |
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The Measure of Progress |
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The Ritual for Generating the Bodhisattva Resolve |
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1. The Methods of Generating It |
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A) The Object Before Which It Is Generated |
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B) The Basis of the Resolve |
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C) The Actual Ritual for Doing So |
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(1) The ritual preliminaries |
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(a) Taking special refuge |
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(b) Generating meretorious energy |
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(c) Purifying one's motivation |
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(2) The actual body of the rite |
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(3) The concluding procedures |
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2. The Methods of Protecting the Bodhisattva Resolve |
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A) The Causes of Not Weakening It in This Life |
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(1) Contemplating the beneficial effects |
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(2) Constantly increasing its strength |
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(3) Not Abandoning it toward any living being |
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(4) Augmenting the collections of merit and wisdom |
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B) The Causes of Not Weakening It in Future Lives |
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(1) Abandoning the four black dharmas |
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(2) Cultivating the four white dharmas |
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3. The Methods of Restoring the Bodhisattva Resolve |
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Cultivating the Ultimate Bodhimind |
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Point Three: Transforming Negative Conditions into Aids on the Path |
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Focusing Contemplation on the Conventional Bodhimind |
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Focusing Contemplation on the Ultimate Bodhimind |
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Point Four: The Doctrine of a Practice for One Lifetime |
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Point Five: The Measure to Which the Mind Has Been Trained |
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Point Six: The Commitments of this Mind-training System |
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Point Seven: Advice to Lojong Practitioners |
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Notes |
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Selected Bibliography |
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