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
Adopt three key elements
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Adopt, acquire, attain, take on, take up, maintain - these are all admonitions to look clearly and intently at our goals and aspirations.
The three key elements, conditions, or principle causes referred to in this slogan are the foundational elements of a healthy practice.
- Receive guidance from a qualified spiritual mentor - a teacher, maybe could be physically present or on the web or dead or a combination - find your community, your tribe
- Devote yourself to all stages of practice - have a workable mind - be malleable - taming the mind is of utmost importance - develop intelligence, have enthusiasm
- Assemble physical and social conditions for practice - adequate economic support
Be aware of the convergence of circumstances in your life - remind yourself that many people do not have such good circumstances. This is an opportunity afforded you as a result of your birth. Don’t waste it.
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Alternate Titles
- Take on the three principle causes
- Adopt the three principal conditions
- Take up the three primary resources
- Acquire the three principal causes
- Three things maintain inseparably
- Attain the three principle causes
- Keep the three main causes
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