At the Invitation of Rigpa, Rinpoche gave a talk in San Francisco “Transforming Fear and Aversion, Mahayana Meditation for Training the Mind in Compassion”

Friday 4 April:

– learning to accept ourselves, our faults and weaknesses

– working with our mind to improve ourselves, get control of our mind and change the way we see.

– Dharma is human experience not Tibetan

– Ignorance, attachment and aversion are our main problem.

– Main point of Lojong is to look directly into what those three are

– looking directly at our own way of reacting, our mind and dealing with it.

Saturday 5 April Morning: The teaching touched on the actual practice of Lojong

– the history of Lojong, coming to Tibet

– 3 yanas – Geshe Chekawa slowly teaching it

– Lojong starts with preliminaries

– two bodhicittas – changing the way we see, acting in a completely different way from usual

– accepting

– Tonglen is not gradual, it’s a direct way – a head on collision

Afternoon:

– answered questions

– translated 3 stanzas by Serlingpa, Atisha’s teacher entitled (roughly)

“How to Integrate Lojong Practice into Daily Life.”