Verses 77-78 Recap We have been going through this text Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon, which is an attitude training or lojong text by Dharmarakshita. In it, we aim to try to, first, overcome our self-cherishing attitude, with which we think only of ourselves...

Recap Last week, we began the advanced level of motivation, with which we aim to reach enlightenment to be able to benefit everybody because everybody is in the same type of situation as we are in. In order to do that, we need to develop the bodhichitta aim, which is having...

Verses 79-81 Recap We’ve been studying this text Wheel of Sharp Weapons or, more literally, Throwing Star Weapon, which is the earliest text probably in this genre of lojong, mind training or attitude training. It was written by Dharmarakshita. We are dealing here with...

Verses 82-83 Recap We’ve been studying this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons, which is in the tradition of attitude training or mind training – lojong in Tibetan. We’ve seen that this text deals with how to overcome our self-cherishing attitude and, deeper than that, how to...

Verses 82-83 Recap We’ve been studying this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons, which is in the tradition of attitude training or mind training – lojong in Tibetan. We’ve seen that this text deals with how to overcome our self-cherishing attitude and, deeper than that, how to...

Verses 84-85 Recap We have been working with this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons by Dharmarakshita, which is one of the earliest, if not the earliest text, in the tradition of lojong – mind training or attitude training. This type of text is in the Mahayana tradition. What it is...

Verses 86-87 Recap We have been going through our text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons, which is in this tradition of what’s called in Tibetan lojong – attitude training or mind training. With it, we work to change our attitudes, change negative circumstances into positive ones and...

Verses 88-89 Recap  We have been studying this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon, which is a text in the genre of attitude training. It comes from teachings in India, which were brought to Tibet and flourished in Tibet very strongly. This text is...

Verses 90-91 Recap We have been dealing with this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons, which is a text in the style of an attitude training or lojong text, which was written by Dharmarakshita, an Indian master – at least ascribed to him – and this text is dealing with how we overcome...

Verse 92 Recap We have been studying this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon, by Dharmarakshita. This is the earliest text in the genre of mind training or attitude training, coming from India. It’s based on earlier works by Nagarjuna and Asanga, but here...