Verses 15-17 Recap We’ve been working through the lojong or attitude training text Wheel of Sharp Weapons. In this, Dharmarakshita has been speaking about the various things that ripen from our negative karma – various difficult situations. What we are trying to do then is to...

Verses 18-19 Poetical and Literal Translations of the Text We have been going through the text by Dharmarakshita, Wheel of Sharp Weapons, a Mahayana cleansing of attitudes. We’ve been using the translation that I had prepared with a few others in 1973. That’s a long time ago,...

Verses 20-22 Recap  We’ve been going through the text by Dharmarakshita, the Indonesian teacher of Atisha, which is Wheel of Sharp Weapons. It’s an attitude training or mind training text. In it, we are looking at the first large section which deals with the various...

Verses 20-22 Recap  We’ve been going through the text by Dharmarakshita, the Indonesian teacher of Atisha, which is Wheel of Sharp Weapons. It’s an attitude training or mind training text. In it, we are looking at the first large section which deals with the various...

Verses 23-25 Recap We’re discussing this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons. Actually, the image of the wheel of sharp weapons is star with blades that the ninjas throw – they had that in India as well. In the text, what is being discussed here is the practice of tonglen: taking on...

Verses 26-28 Recap We’ve been speaking about a text which is concerning the topic of how to cleanse our attitude – or lojong, mind training – called Weapon Wheel of Blades or Wheel of Sharp Weapons. This text deals with a very central theme in Mahayana, which is the exchange...

Verses 29-31 Recap We’ve been going through this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons, which is a lojong or attitude training text written by Dharmarakshita. This is a very early lojong text and a very important one in terms of elaborating on the tonglen practice and connecting it to...

Verses 32-34 Recap We’ve been discussing this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Weapon Wheel of Blades, a Mahayana cleansing of attitudes. We’ve seen that this is a text which speaks very much about the tonglen practice, the practice of giving and taking. The beginning part of...

Verses 35-37 Recap We’ve been going through this text by Dharmarakshita, Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Weapon Wheel of Blades, which is in the genre known as lojong, the training of our attitudes. It’s a Mahayana text, and what we want to do is to cleanse away our attitudes of...

Verses 33, 38 Recap We have been studying this great text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Weapon Wheel of Blades, which is probably the earliest version of this genre of lojong – mind training, or cleansing of attitudes, or training of attitudes. It was written by the great master...