Being Ordinary
- Introduction
- • ★ Lojong Slogans
- Begin with the beginning
- Treat experiences as dreams
- Examine the nature of awareness
- Don’t get trapped by emptiness
- Rest in the openness of mind
- In the intervals be a conjurer of illusion
- Practice giving and receiving on the breath
- 3 Objects, 3 Poisons, 3 Seeds of Virtue
- Always train with the slogans
- Begin Tonglen with yourself
- Use misfortune as practice
- Drive all blame into a single source
- Be grateful to everyone
- Let confusion awaken and practice emptiness
- Do good, avoid evil, appreciate your lunacy, pray for help
- Every encounter suddenly becomes the path
- Cultivate a serious attitude
- Practice for death as well as for life
- There is only one point of focus
- Be true to the principled one
- Cultivate an ever-present joyful mind
- Proficiency comes when practicing even when distracted
- Always train in the 3 basic elements
- Don’t make a public display of your efforts
- Don’t speak of the faults of others
- Don’t ponder the actions of others
- Don’t save your biggest problem
- Don’t expect results
- Don’t poison yourself
- Don’t be so predictable
- Don’t be mean
- Don’t wait in ambush
- Don’t make everything so painful
- Don’t unload on everyone
- Don’t rush things
- Don’t be devious
- Don’t make gods into demons
- Don’t be complacent of suffering
- Focus on a singe intention
- Remedy obstacles with one intention
- Two activities begin the day end the day
- Be patient either way
- Observe, no matter what
- Face the three challenges
- Adopt three key elements
- Keep tract of the three key elements
- Keep the three inseparable
- Train without bias
- Meditate on your dissatisfactions
- Embrace challenges presented by circumstances
- Right now exert yourself, get it right
- Remain committed and engaged
- Be consistent in your practice
- Be wholehearted
- Find freedom through investigation and close analysis
- Be modest and unassuming
- Practice sympathetic joy
- Be even tempered
Use misfortune as practice
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The original slogan is: “When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of bodhi.”
Work with whatever happens. When caught in bad situations, take those various things and turn them into the tools used to awaken. The word bodhi means awakening. Life situations are like a train, and they will go off the rails and crash. You naturally want to fix things and get back on track. Maybe you get wrapped up in the emotions of the moment and lash out internally at yourself with doubt and regret or externally at others with blame and anger. This is a battle without any end. As soon as one lousy situation is passed, another comes around the tracks on a collision course. You feel like giving up.
Life will present challenges. There will be an abundance of situations where you will be challenged. You can see them as wrong, get worked up by them, or you can start to view them as challenges. Instead of pushing away and hiding when things go wrong, you can shift into a state of curiosity. Curious about the lessons that can be learned from the challenges. Don’t try and hide, instead actively investigate. Life will never bend to your egoistic ideals. If it does, it won’t be permeant.
Investigating will show you that you can get better. Look at your misfortunes, look at the particulars of the incident. How did it make you feel? Did it remind you of something in the past? Have you experienced this before? Who was involved? Where they a contributor to the misfortune or an innocent bystander? Be honest. Continue in this way of inquiry to see clearly where you, yourself, could make a difference. If there is genuinely nothing you can do, accept the situation.
Accepting doesn’t mean giving in. It means having an open acceptance of the situation and letting wisdom work. You can choose to either reject a perceived misfortune which is out of our control or accept it as the path to wisdom and awakening.
You will never be without this opportunity for introspecting misfortunes. The misfortunes of life are what we signed up for at birth. You can develop the skill of looking into the areas where you are ego-grasping - or we can be buffeted by the winds of an unexamined life.
Methods
- The first struggle is to discover and recognize mishaps. Don’t pretend there is nothing troubling.
- Don’t lose track of your mindfulness and loving-kindness. You can be big enough to absorb these troubles.
- Don’t close down around your EGO. ‘All suffering comes through not recognizing ego-clinging as our enemy.’
- The way you react doesn’t have to be fixed. To respond in a new way, you must act in a new way. Don’t be so reactive. Don’t be in a hurry. Your motivation is connected with your mind, your thoughts, your intentions, and your energies.
- Expand your vision utilizing generosity. Be grateful for the troubles you have, you can bear them and even have room to take on the problems facing others.
- Keep your mind free from misconception. Practice with a concentrated mind. As your relationship to your troubles becomes transformed — so are you.
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Alternate Titles
- Turn all mishaps into the path
- When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of Bodhi
- When the world and its inhabitants boil with negativity, transform adverse conditions into the path of enlightenment
- When all the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of Bodhi
- When evil fills the world and its inhabitants, change adverse conditions into the path of awakening
- When the environment and its inhabitants are enslaved by evil, turn unfavorable circumstances into the path of awakening
- When the container and its contents are filled With evil, change this adverse circumstance into the path to full awakening
- When all the world is filled with evils, place all setbacks on the path of liberation
- When beings and the world are filled with evil, convert adversities into the path of awakening
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