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 even tempered
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Be involved with the activities of life. Be serious, even when having fun. Like breathing, life experiences come and go all on their own. They can buffet us about. In different situations they have more or less power and is harder to recognize. When having fun, just have fun. When being serious, just be serious. Without making fun or serious anything other that what it is. Don’t get distracted from the goal of developing loving kindness and seeing through egoistic self-grasping. Don’t succumb to the impulses and whims of your mood-stream. We are subjected to an ever changing mood stream that includes irritations, slights, inconveniences, highs and lows. This is normal and usual, part of the default mind. Nurture and care for your good intentions.
How do you spend your time? What do you think about? How do you invest your energy? Don’t confuse the open, child-like mind of meditation with a laissez a faire attitude. Frivolity is not a virtue. Also don’t swing the pendulum and present a “overblown display of seriousness… The most solemn occasions have an undercurrent of absurdity; and the silliest interactions have an undertone of profundity.” [^@Leif:2010aa]
Don’t be like the weather. Be steadfast in working towards your goals. Settle and focus. Don’t sleepwalk through the day. Neither stability or momentum will develop when you interact unconsciously with your mood-stream.
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Alternate titles
- Don’t be hypersensitive
- Don’t be frivolous
- Do not be temperamental
- Do not be fickle
- Don’t let your moods swing too much
- Do not be moody
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