Mind Training (Lojong)

Texts on so-called mind training (blo sbyong), the system of practical instructions for developing the compassion and wisdom of bodhicitta:

Aspiration Prayers

The Blissful Path to the Ocean of Bodhichitta: A Brief Prayer of Aspiration for Mind Training

by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

This prayer of aspiration for training the mind in bodhicitta by exchanging all the world's suffering for genuine happiness is based on Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye's longer text, The Gateway to the Ocean of Bodhicitta.

Aspiration Prayers Bodhicitta 7 May 2015

The Excellent Path to Enlightenment: An Aspiration Towards the Mahāyāna Mind Training

by Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe

A prayer of aspiration that incorporates the central principles and key terminology of the lojong (blo sbyong) or 'mind training' tradition according to the Mahāyāna.

Aspiration Prayers 10 Dec 2021

The Finest Jewel: An Aspiration Prayer of Mahāyāna Mind Training

by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

This aspiration, written during an unspecified snake year, incorporates the key elements of the Mind Training teachings, such as taking on others' suffering and giving away one's own happiness, and perfecting relative and absolute bodhicitta.

Aspiration Prayers 11 Sep 2020

Aspiration to Generate Bodhicitta, Utterly Pure and Supreme

by Patrul Rinpoche

This prayer of aspiration covers the entire Buddhist path, but places special emphasis on the cultivation of bodhicitta in its various forms. For to have bodhicitta, says Patrul Rinpoche, is to have "all that's needed to attain enlightenment."

Bodhicitta Aspiration Prayers Nyingma Mönlam 13 Oct 2010

Dzogchen

The Essential Instruction on the Preliminary, Sevenfold Mind Training

by Longchen Rabjam

Belonging to the Lama Yangtik, these are the seven preliminary contemplations of: 1) impermanence, 2) temporary and lasting happiness, 3) manifold conditions, 4) the futility of ordinary enterprises, 5) the qualities of buddhahood, 6) the guru's instructions, and 7) non-conceptuality.

Lama Yangtik Restricted 19 Jun 2024

Eight Verses of Training the Mind

by Geshe Langri Thangpa

These eight verses, which are now regularly transmitted around the world by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, succinctly convey the compassionate attitude, humility and uncompromising vision of a true bodhisattva—as encapsulated in the text's most famous and most striking lines: "I will take defeat upon myself and give the victory to others.

Lojong (general)

The Bodhisattva’s Garland of Jewels

by Atiśa Dīpaṃkara

This short text (Bodhisattvamaṇyāvalī in Sanskrit), which is included in the Middle Way section of the Tengyur (Toh 3951), is regarded as a classic work of the Mind Training (blo sbyong) tradition. With its direct and pithy language, it is not so much a poem as a series of maxims on the bodhisattva path.

Advice Tengyur Damngak Dzö 28 Jan 2008

Turning Suffering & Happiness Into Enlightenment

by Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima

One of Jigme Tenpe Nyima's best known works—and indeed one the most famous Tibetan texts of recent times—this is a pithy and practical guide to integrating all experiences, good and bad, happy and sad, into the path to enlightenment. As the text itself puts it, this is “indispensable for leading a spiritual life, a most needed tool of the Noble Ones, and quite the most priceless teaching in the world.”

Advice 19 Feb 2006

The Sayings of Geshe Langri Tangpa

by Geshe Langri Thangpa

Taken from a collection called Miscellaneous Sayings of the Saintly Masters of the Kadam Tradition (bka' gdams kyi skyes bu dam pa rnams kyi gsung bgros thor bu ba rnams) edited by the 11th/12th century teachers Chegom Sherab Dorje (lce sgom shes rab rdo rje) and Kharak Gomchung Wangchuk Lodrö (kha rag sgom chung dbang phyug blo gros).

21 Feb 2016

How to Transform Sickness and Other Circumstances

by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo

This is a classic work on 'bringing difficult circumstances onto the path' (lam khyer), a subgenre of mind training. Tokme Zangpo reveals what it is like to live beyond hopes and fears, and how to face sickness, poverty and death (as well as good health, prosperity and long-life) with joy.

Sickness & Healing Advice 19 Aug 2007

Thirty Pieces of Heart Advice

by Longchen Rabjam

Longchen Rabjam tells us that he composed these thirty verses of heartfelt advice for himself and others like him, out of a sense of renunciation. In what has become one of his most famous and popular teachings, he advocates simplicity, ethical discipline, humility, and, above all, diligent practice.

Advice 8 Feb 2014

Three Principal Aspects of the Path

by Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa

One of the great Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa's most famous teachings, this short text highlights the importance of renunciation, the motivation of bodhicitta, and the wisdom that realises the nature of things.

Lamrim Damngak Dzö 30 Oct 2006

Thirty-Seven Practices

The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas

by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo

One of the most famous native Tibetan texts on mind training, this classic by Tokme Zangpo summarises the teachings of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra and other sources, in order to present the path of the bodhisattva in just thirty-seven four-line verses.

Advice 12 Mar 2006

Parting from the Four Attachments

A series of texts related to the famous four-line instruction that Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092–1158) received from Mañjuśrī.

7 texts

Seven Points of Mind Training

6 texts

Mind Training (Lojong)

Aspiration Prayers

Dzogchen

Eight Verses of Training the Mind

Lojong (general)

Thirty-Seven Practices

Parting from the Four Attachments

Seven Points of Mind Training

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