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
Be wholehearted
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Train with your spiritual life, train with your daily activities. Train with your private life, train with your public life. Train with your close relationships, train with your casual relationships. Train with activities you like and train with activities that you don’t like. Train with easy things, train with hard things. Practicing this way with contrasting aspects of life brings the heart-mind into awareness. Be completely saturated with this one concern, the concern of bringing the heart-mind into awareness. “When you encounter good conditions, breathe out and send them off to others. It is as simple as that.” [^@Rinpoche:2009a]
Don’t hold back. Don’t just go through the motions of Mind Training, let this practice permeate the activities of your life. Don’t give yourself a refuge where you don’t practice. Keep the pressure on.
Moment after moment, live wholeheartedly, and then let yourself die wholeheartedly.
“Among all the lives that you have had, this one is the most important be- cause you have obtained a precious human birth. Therefore, you should make it meaningful.” [^@Rinpoche:2009a]
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Alternate Titles
- Be wholehearted
- Train wholeheartedly
- Train with decisiveness
- Practice decisively
- Do not underestimate your ability
- Be zealous in your training
- From now on, practice is the chief priority
- Train uninterruptedly
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