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
Practice sympathetic joy
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Use sympathetic joy as an antidote to major and minor jealousies. Be joyful for others success and the joy in the world suddenly doubles, theirs is compounded by yours. Delight in the delight of others. By being happy for others good fortune you get to be happy.
This slogan is also about irritability, slights, and insults. These are subtle forms of anger and jealousy.
When slighted or insulted, do not respond with action or speech, nor even in our thoughts. To think you have been slighted is to be slighted. Stop this at its source. This is the antidote to the self-grasping ego.
“Anything that helps us to measure the present level of our self-grasping is to our benefit, and one such measure consists in noting how easily we are slighted or jealous.” [^@Wallace:2001aa]
Maintain your confidence and clarity of observation. Ask “What would Dr. Seuss do in this situation?” Lighten up and open your heart-mind. “The first difficulty is to see yourself jealous, see yourself frivolous, see yourself wallowing in self-pity. The second difficulty is to do something different.” [^@Chodron:1994a]
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Alternate titles
- Don’t be hypersensitive
- Don’t blind yourself with hatred
- Don’t be jealous
- Don’t be caught up in irritations
- Do not retaliate
- Do not be bad tempered
- Do not hold on to anger
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