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 SupportClick here to ask for help or report a problem Course Introduction Video Back to Course Atisha’s Seven Points of Mind Training – Lojong Next Lesson Participation Instructions
