Eight Verses for Training the Mind - Verse 8

Thongdrol

དེ་དག་ཀུན་ཀྱང་ཆོས་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི། ། རྟོག་པའི་དྲི་མས་མ་སྦགས་ཤིང༌། 

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ཆོས་ཀུན་སྒྱུ་མར་ཤེས་པའི་བློས། ། ཞེན་མེད་འཆིང་བ་ལས་གྲོལ་ཤོག །
May all this remain undefiled
By the stains of the eight mundane concerns;
And may I, recognizing all things as illusion,
Devoid of clinging, be released from bondage.

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A highly-revered text from the Mahayana Lojong (mind training) tradition. These instructions offer essential practices for cultivating the awakening mind of compassion, wisdom, and love.

Composed  by  the  Tibetan Buddhist  Master  Langri  Tangpa  (1054-1123),  Eight  Verses  for  Training  the  Mind  is  a  highly-revered  text  from  the  Mahayana  Lojong  (mind  training)  tradition.  These  instructions  offer  essential  practices  for cultivating  the  awakening  mind  of  compassion,  wisdom,  and  love.  This  eight-verse  lojong  enshrines  the  very heart  of  Dharma,  revealing  the  true  essence  of  the  Mahayana  path  to  liberation.  Even  a  single  line  of  this  practice can  be  seen  as  encapsulating  the  entire  teaching  of  the  Buddha.  For  even  a  single  statement  of  this  mind  training practice  has  the  incredible  power  to  help  us  subdue  our  self-oriented  behavior  and  mental  afflictions.

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