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Eight
Verses on Training the Mind
T.D. Lakha Lama talks on Lojong
Recorded in Lund, Sweden
June 16-18, 2001.
Friday evening
01. Being strong means: being able to take it.
02. Where is happiness - inside or outside?
03. Shi-ne, meditation.
04. Learn to relax.
05. Buddha, Dharma & Sangha.
06. Bodhisattvas. Nothing is solid. Enjoy and appreciate!
07. When the base is shaky - earthquake all the time. On bodhicitta. Reminders
are important.
08. Are we afraid of being stupid compassionate?
09. Dalai Lama says westerners should stick to their traditions...?
10. I dont have this kind of identity...
11. Where should one start?
12. Then we truly are all religions, beyond identity...?
13. Should I really see fellow beings as higher than myself...?
14. The feeling of well-being in ordinary life, is this the same happiness
as we strive for in buddhism?
15. What about physical pain?
Saturday morning
16. Guided meditation on spiritual beings.
17. Should I visualize the light inside of me...?
18. Sentient beings means living beings.
19. I have problems with insects...
20. I have a dead relative who don´t find his peace...
21. My problem is a feeling of pride.
22. How do you deal with self-centeredness?
23. How to reduce expectations?
24. Is not spiritual practice and daily life the same thing?
25. What about if you feel that you have too much to care for?
26. Dont give position to disturbing and dominating thoughts.
27. If you have a memory of doing bad actions...?
28. Some people believe that you choose your own mother and father...
29. Do you remember your previous incarnations?
30. How can I avoid thinking about problems?
31. My bike was stolen...
Saturday afternoon
32. Verse 1.
33. What does buddhism says about “evil”?
34. Verse 2.
35. What if the evil actions are destroying for many others..?
36. Verse 3.
37. I have dreams of being rescued...
38. What is the best way to face negative emotions?
39. What comes first, emotion or thought?
40. Don´t consider it as “my” feelings...
41. Should we be totally detached from feelings?
42. Meditate on dominant feelings - look at feelings, don´t feel it!
43. Blessing meditation.
44. Verse 4
45. On grief and loss.
46. If we don´t grief, would the dead be disappointed?
47. Big part of buddhist practice is to prepare for next life!
48. If the dead are still around after several years?
49. Is it the conciousness that carries over from life to life?
50. How do you regard dreams?
51. Conclusion with short meditation.
Sunday morning
52. Meditation.
53. We need an attitude of appreciation and thankfulness.
54. The relationship to the Lama is in the heart.
55. Who was your Master?
56. Do you think we should blindly accept what the teacher says?
57. A tibetan monk being tortured by the chinese, is this his karma or is
he being tested somehow?
58. I am afraid of getting too much to carry...
59. In your daily life, what are you mostly trapped in?
60. I always run away...
61. I am afraid to lose my strength...
62. My fear is that something will happen to my son...
63. I have a feeling of loneliness...
64. Story of Lakha´s house.
65. My biggest fear has been a blessing.
Sunday afternoon
66. Verse 5.
67. Karma means action.
68. Verse 6.
69. I find this somewhat pessimistic.
70. If I can´t give without expectations, is it better not to give?
71. Verse 7.
72. How do we put a limit on (desire for) satisfaction?
73. Verse 8.
74. Don´t get stuck with identity!
75. On society and system.
76. How to pray for family members?
77. Don´t try to be perfect!
78. How to transform?
79. How do I get a Master?
80. But if I wish to see Dalai Lama, is this also something negative?
81. End and dedication.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
The teaching was based on this text:
Lojong-Eight
verses for training the mind
1/ By thinking of all sentient beings
as even better than the wish-granting gem
for accomplishing the highest aim
may I always consider them precious.
2/ Wherever I go, with whomever I go
may I see myself as less than others, and
from the depths of my heart
may I consider them supremely precious.
3/ May I examine my mind in all actions
and as soon as a negative state occurs,
since it endangers myself and others,
may I firmly face and avert it.
4/ When I see beings of a negative disposition
or those oppressed by negativity or pain,
may I, as if finding a treasure, consider them precious
for they are rarely met.
5/ Whenever others, due to their jealousy,
revile and treat me in other unjust ways,
may I accept this defeat myself,
and offer the victory to others.
6/ When someone whom I have helped
or in whom I have placed great hope
harms me with great injustice,
may I see that one as a sacred friend.
7/ In short, may I offer both directly and indirectly
all joy and benefit to all beings,
my mothers, and may I myself secretly take
on all their hurt and suffering.
8/ May they not be defiled by the concepts
of the eight mundane concerns,
and aware that all things are illusory,
may they, ungrasping, be free from bondage.
Generating the mind for enlightenment
1999 Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama
With a wish to free all beings
I shall always go for refuge
to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha,
until I reach full enlightenment.
Enthused by wisdom and compassion
today in the Buddha´s presence
I generate the Mind for Full Awakening
for the benefit of all sentient beings
As long as space remains,
as long as sentient beings remain,
until then, may I too remain
and dispel the miseries of the world
Eight Verses translation
1997 by John Dunne