Seven-Point Mind Training : A Tibetan Method for Cultivating Mind and Heart

by Wallace, B. Alan

• ISBN13: 9781559392228
• ISBN10: 1559392223
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Random House Inc

Summary

The central theme of The Seven-Point Mind Training is to make the liberating passage from constricting solitude of self-centeredness to the warm kinship with otherswhich occurs with the cultivation of cherishing others even more than oneself.

Author Biography

B. Alan Wallace has taught Buddhist theory and practice in Europe and America since 1976

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
The Preliminaries, Which Are Fundamental Dharma	p. 17
First of all train in the preliminaries	p. 17
The Main Practice: Training in the Bodhicittas	p. 27
Having attained stability, let the mystery be revealed	p. 27
Consider the world as dreamlike	p. 30
Investigate the nature of unborn awareness	p. 33
Even the antidote itself is liberated in its own place	p. 37
Establish the nature of the path in the sphere of the foundation of all	p. 39
Between meditation sessions act as an illusory being	p. 43
Alternately practice sending and taking	p. 47
Apply those two to the breath	p. 57
Three objects, three poisons, three roots of virtue	p. 58
In all activities train with words	p. 59
Using Unfavorable Circumstances as Aids to Awakening	p. 61
When the environment and its inhabitants are enslaved by evil, transform unfavorable circumstances into the path of awakening	p. 61
Blame everything on one thing	p. 65
Meditate on great kindness toward everyone	p. 72
Meditation on the deceptive appearances of the Four Bodies is unsurpassed in guarding emptiness	p. 77
The supreme method entails four practices	p. 78
Whatever you encounter, immediately apply it to meditation	p. 82
A Synthesis of Practice for One Life	p. 85
To synthesize the essence of this practical guidance, apply yourself to the five powers	p. 85
The Mahayana teaching on transfering consciousness is just these precious five powers	p. 88
The Measure of Having Trained the Mind	p. 93
All Dharma is included in one purpose	p. 93
Maintain the chief of the two witnesses	p. 95
Rely continually on mental happiness alone	p. 96
The Pledges of Mind Training	p. 99
Always practice the three principles	p. 100
Transform your desires, but remain as you are	p. 102
Speak not of degenerate qualities	p. 103
Think nothing about the other side	p. 104
Abandon all hope for results	p. 110
Abandon poisonous food	p. 111
Do not devote yourself kindly to the central object	p. 112
Do not laugh at malicious jokes	p. 112
Do not wait at the narrow passageway	p. 113
Do not load the burden of a dzo on an ox	p. 114
Do not direct yourself to the summit of the ascent	p. 114
Do not be devious	p. 115
Do not let the gods descend to the devil	p. 115
Do not seek another's misery as a way to your own happiness	p. 116
The Practices of Mind Training	p. 119
Practice all yogas by means of one	p. 120
Counteract all withdrawal by means of one	p. 123
There are two actions on two occasions, at the beginning and end	p. 123
Whichever of the opposites occurs, be patient	p. 126
Guard the two at the cost of your life	p. 127
Practice the three austerities	p. 128
Acquire the three principal causes	p. 130
Cultivate the absence of three degenerations	p. 132
Be endowed with the three inseparables	p. 133
Always meditate on those who make you boil	p. 134
Do not rely on other conditions	p. 135
Now practice what is most important	p. 136
Do not be contrary	p. 137
Do not be erratic	p. 139
Practice decisively	p. 140
Free yourself by means of investigation and analysis	p. 140
Do not be boastful	p. 141
Do not bind yourself with hatred	p. 141
Do not be fickle	p. 142
Do not desire gratitude	p. 142
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