Atisha’s Seven Points of Mind Training – Lojong Syllabus Course Introduction Introduction Video Participation Instructions Introduction Practice 1: Course Preparation Introduction Practice 2: Mindfulness and Vigilant Guard The First Key Point: The Preliminaries The First Key Point Practice 1: Precious Human Birth The First Key Point Practice 2: Impermanence The First Key Point Practice 3: Karma, Cause, and Result The First Key Point Practice 4: Suffering—The Unsatisfying Nature of All Things The Second Key Point: Main Practice Second Key Point Overview Video The Second Key Point Practice 1: The Empty Nature of Objects, Ultimate Bodhichitta The Second Key Point Practice 2: The Empty Nature of Mind, Ultimate Bodhichitta The Second Key Point Practice 3: The Empty Remedy, Ultimate Bodhichitta The Second Key Point Practice 4: Relative Bodhichitta Equalizing Self and Others The Second Key Point Practice 5: The Four Immeasurables The Second Key Point Practice 6: Tonglen The Second Key Point Practice 7: Cherishing Others More Than Ourselves The Second Key Point Practice 8: Three Objects, Three Poisons, Three Roots of Virtue The Second Key Point Practice 9: Train Using Sayings During All Activities The Second Key Point Practice 10: Start By Accepting Your Own Suffering The Third Key Point: Transforming Adverse Conditions into the Path of Awakening The Third Key Point Practice 1: Drive All Blame Into One The Third Key Point Practice 2: Meditate on the Great Kindness of All The Third Key Point Practice 3: The Patience of Accepting Suffering The Third Key Point Practice 4: The Patience of Not Blaming the Harm-Doer The Third Key Point Practice 5: The Patience of Certainty in the True Nature of Phenomena The Third Key Point Practice 6: Meditating on the Appearances of Confusion as the Four Kayas is the Unsurpassed Protection of Emptiness The Third Key Point Practice 7: The Four Applications are the Supreme Methods The Third Key Point Practice 8: Immediately Join Whatever You Encounter to the Training The Fourth Key Point: Integrating Practice Into Your Whole Life Fourth Key Point Overview Video The Fourth Key Point Practice 1: How to Train During this Life The Fourth Key Point Practice 2: How to Train While Dying The Fifth Key Point: The Measure of Proficiency in Mind Training The Fifth Key Point Practice 1: All Dharmas Have a Single, Unified Purpose The Fifth Key Point Practice 2: Of the Two Witnesses, Rely on the Primary One The Fifth Key Point Practice 3: Always Keep a Joyful Mind The Fifth Key Point Practice 4: There is Proficiency If We Can Train While Distracted The Sixth Key Point: The Commitments of Mind Training Sixth and Seventh Key Point Overview Video Sixth and Seventh Key Point Assignment Tips Video The Sixth Key Point Practice 1: Continually Train in the Three Universal Principles The Sixth Key Point Practice 2: Change Your Intention But Act Naturally The Sixth Key Point Practice 3: Don’t Speak About Others’ Defects The Sixth Key Point Practice 4: Don’t Concern Yourself with Others’ Affairs The Sixth Key Point Practice 5: Train in the Most Obvious Afflictive Emotion First The Sixth Key Point Practice 6: Give Up All Hope for a Result The Sixth Key Point Practice 7: Avoid Poisoned Food The Sixth Key Point Practice 8: Don’t Be Dependable The Sixth Key Point Practice 9: Don’t Retaliate Against Nasty Words The Sixth Key Point Practice 10: Don’t Wait in Ambush The Sixth Key Point Practice 11: Don’t Strike at a Vulnerable Point The Sixth Key Point Practice 12: Don’t Put the Oxen’s Load on the Cow The Sixth Key Point Practice 13: Don’t Place Your Sole Intention on the Fastest The Sixth Key Point Practice 14: Don’t Misapply Ceremonial Practice The Sixth Key Point Practice 15: Don’t Allow the Divine to Be Reduced to the Demonic The Sixth Key Point Practice 16: Don’t Seek Others’ Suffering as a Component of Happiness The Seventh Key Point: Advice for Mind Training The Seventh Key Point Practice 1: Make All Yogas One The Seventh Key Point Practice 2: Use One Method of Correction for Everything The Seventh Key Point Practice 3: In the Beginning and in the End, There are Two Things To Do The Seventh Key Point Practice 4: Whichever of the Two Occurs, Be Patient The Seventh Key Point Practice 5: Observe These Two, Even at the Risk of Life The Seventh Key Point Practice 6: Train in the Three Challenges The Seventh Key Point Practice 7: Adopt the Three Principal Requisites The Seventh Key Point Practice 8: Meditate Without These Three Deteriorating The Seventh Key Point Practice 9: Act Without the Three Being Separated The Seventh Key Point Practice 10: Train Impartially toward All Objects The Seventh Key Point Practice 11: Always Train in the Most Difficult Points The Seventh Key Point Practice 12: Don’t Be Dependent on Other Conditions The Seventh Key Point Practice 13: This Time, Practice the Indispensable Point The Seventh Key Point Practice 14: Don’t Misunderstand The Seventh Key Point Practice 15: Don’t Be Sporadic The Seventh Key Point Practice 16: Train Wholeheartedly The Seventh Key Point Practice 17: Find Freedom through Both Investigation and Examination The Seventh Key Point Practice 18: Don’t Be Self-Congratulatory The Seventh Key Point Practice 19: Restrain Jealousy The Seventh Key Point Practice 20: Don’t Be Dramatic The Seventh Key Point Practice 21: Don’t Seek Acknowledgment Conclusion Course Conclusion Video Conclusion, Dedication, and Aspiration Appendix Course Vocabulary First Key Point Vocabulary Third Key Point, Practice 2: Supplemental Reading The Five Forces Flashcards Freedoms and Advantages Outline for Contemplation of Impermanence Reminder Apps for Your Device Root Text Course Introduction Video Back to Course Atisha’s Seven Points of Mind Training – Lojong Next Lesson Participation Instructions
