Verses 69-71 Recap We’ve been going through this text, which is in the category of texts known as lojong in Tibetan, which means attitude training, or mind training, or cleansing of our attitudes. It is probably the earliest text of this genre, and it speaks about how in...

Verses 72-74 Recap We have been studying and practicing this text called Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon, which is a text in the genre of lojong, or attitude training, or mind training. This is probably the earliest text of that genre. It’s ascribed to...

Verses 75-76 Recap We’ve been studying the text The Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon by Dharmarakshita. This is a Mahayana attitude training text that is talking about basically overcoming the source of our difficulties in life, the source of our uncontrollably...

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...