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
Always train in the 3 basic elements
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Always come back and recommit yourself to this simple practice. Don’t just focus on working with your own mind but also attend to how you practice in the presence of others. Your interactions reveal a lot about your practice.
The original slogan is: “Always abide by the three basic principles.”
Basically the three principles or elements are:
- Maintain intention to train your mind.
- Stick to your guns and remember to keep practicing. You will get distracted and lose track of your intention to train your mind but don’t give up. Don’t beet yourself up for getting distracted either. Simply start again as if this was the first moment of practice.
- Apply good manners, and be kind, humble, and wise.
- Be careful not to let your life be corrupted by egotistic self-grasping. You are not special and the people your meet and interact with are on a journey much like yours. You and them are not different. Kindness is your religion. Thinking somehow above the crowd and to seek attention, cooing and hawing about your accomplishments is counter being humble and wise.
- Be even tempered, balanced, unbiased, develop patience.
- Be the tortoise and not the hare. This practice is really about focusing on the journey and not rushing. There is a lot to do and no need to hurry. This isn’t an easy or popular way of life and there are no guaranties that you’ll achieve any kind of mastery. No rush to get to the next moment. The day will arrive at its own pace. There is enough practice for four lifetimes.
All life is impermanent. You live for and with others. Suffering and confusion pervade the universe. The reality is that your practice is situated in life.
Love your mind training practice more than you love cooperating with you own egotistic self-grasping.”
‘The fast track to spiritual maturity is through total commitment, intelligent practice, and perseverance. Any short cut that bypasses these elements is bogus.’[]
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Alternate Titles
- Come back to basics
- Always abide by the three basic principles
- Train constantly in the three general points
- Always practice the three general principles
- Always practice the three principles
- Always practice the three general points.
- Always train in three common points
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