A teaching on Lojong, Mind Training, as requested by a Spanish group.
Parts 1-3: Preliminaries
Precious human life
Impermanence
Karma
Samsara
Parts 4-7: Transforming the negative emotions by training on wisdom and compassion
Anger, desire and ignorance / Compassion and wisdom
Attachment and aversion
Mindfulness and awareness
Equanimity
Tonglen (a guided meditation, in part 6)
3 sacred principles: motivation, actual practice, dedication
Q&A
Part 3: Practice in the dream – How to help people face death – Intention and karma – Dorje Chang/Vajradhara.
Part 4: Indifference – Fear – How to calm down in the moment – Aversion, attachment and natural selection.
Part 5: How to tell someone they are wrong, when they are? – Thoughts and the mind – Thoughts and habit.
Part 6: Sense of humor – If you help someone, aren’t you preventing the unfolding of his karma – What is good humor – Humor vs respect.
Part 7: The experience of emptiness – What does it mean that I am made of many things.
With Spanish translation.
Photo of Rinpoche at Bodhicharya Meditation Centre in March, 2019, thanks to Palpung Slovenia.