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
Right now exert yourself, get it right
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Right now exert yourself…
There is no other time then now. Now is the only time in which you can operate. It surrounds you and bathes you with its presence. Don’t procrastinate. You have met this human existence and are conscience.’What’s important right now is the level of attention you can bring to what you are experiencing. Nothing else really counts.’
…get it right
Rightness refers to what is practical, physical, down to earth. Rightness and wrongness are on a spectrum and the attempt must be to move the needle towards rightness. Never succeeding, always trying. Getting it “right” means different things in different situations. This time, get it right - points to all the times we’ve didn’t get it right.
- Benefiting others is more important that benefiting yourself.
- Practice is more important than study. You’re healthy, live in relatively safe and privileged society, you have the resources available, you have the time. Inner practice is far more important than the outer trappings.
- Loving-kindness is where the heart of the matter is found.
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Alternate Titles
- This time get it right
- This time, practice the main points
- Engage in the principal practices right now
- This time, practice the important points
- Now practice what is most important
- Exert yourself, especially at this time
- This time, do what is important
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