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
Don’t make everything so painful
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Don’t dwell on regret or worry, foreshadowing the future. If there is a pain to your future, then this type of activity inflicts it twice, and at least one of those times, you suffer voluntarily. Don’t suffer your suffering.
Your regret and worry can affect how you treat yourself and others. Things can be bad enough without festering them with an attitude of regret and worry, making demoralizing mental comments to yourself and out loud, without the negative feelings associated with contraction, and of course, our old nemesis, gossip. Work with what is happening without faultfinding or complaining or elaboration. Don’t get angry. Wallowing in regret and worry only makes things worse. ‘Don’t put a head on top of your head. One head is enough.’ Do this for others. Do this for yourself.
Confidence is undermined by focusing on regret and worry. Use the feelings of regret and worry as the wake-up bells for waking up and returning to the present moment experience. Just put regret and worry down and begin again. You can either learn from your regret and worry or turn them into another stick to beat yourself.
Build confidence through small actions, remind others of their adequacies.
Don’t malign others …………………………………….[[201903300509]] Cultivate an ever-present joyful mind ……………………..[[201903200647]] Let confusion awaken and practice emptiness ………………..[[201903130526]] The Power Of Regret ……………………………………..[[202009070839]]
Alternate Titles
- Don’t bring things to a painful point
- Do not strike at the heart
- Don’t bring things to a painful point
- Don’t make things painful
- Do not strike at weaknesses
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