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
Meditate on your dissatisfactions
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Practice is best moved and helps the most when we work with our hard problems. Problems are the start of your resentments, your dissatisfactions with the way life is. Stop avoiding the these issues. By meditating on your resentments they help point out where clarity is wanted. Resentments and dissatisfactions are our teachers and it is only with awareness and examination can you grow. Be an adult.
Meditate on those close to you. Be careful that special care is given to the people close to you and be sure they don’t lose the preciousness that attracted you to them in the first place.
‘Instead of the resentment being an obstacle, it’s a reminder.’ [^@Chodron:1994a]
‘You lose attention most quickly in the areas that you are most sensitive, so pay attention to important relationships and things that especially irritate you.’
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Alternate Titles
- Stay close to your resentment
- Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment
- Always meditate on volatile points
- Always meditate on those who make you boil
- Always meditate on those closely related
- Always meditate on whatever is unavoidable
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