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The commitments of mind training

Seven Point Mind Training by Ven Sangye Khadro – Part 10

Part of a series of 12 teachings by Venerable Sangye Khadro given online at Amitabha Buddhist Centre from July to September 2020.

  • Guided meditation on constantly cultivating a joyful mind
  • Additional thoughts on the questions and answers from the previous session
  • The 6th point of mind training: commitments and pledges (continued)
    • Train consistently to act wisely towards objects of refuge, family, people you compete with, people who harm you, people you dislike
    • Transform your mind but behave naturally on the outside
    • Give up any hope for reward
    • Don’t rely on outer conditions
    • Don’t speak of others’ incomplete qualities
    • Don’t concern yourself with others’ business
    • Don’t let self-centeredness poison your practice
    • Don’t treat your afflictions and delusions leniently
    • Don’t speak badly, not even in a joking way
    • Don’t lie in ambush, waiting for a chance to take revenge on others
    • Don’t strike at others’ weaknesses and vulnerabilities
    • Don’t shift responsibility and blame on others
    • Don’t sprint to win the race for your own benefit alone
    • Don’t seek others’ misery as a means to happiness
  • Questions & answers

Venerable Sangye Khadro

California-born, Venerable Sangye Khadro ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 1974, and is a longtime friend and colleague of Abbey founder Ven. Thubten Chodron. Ven. Sangye Khadro took the full (bhikshuni) ordination in 1988. While studying at Nalanda Monastery in France in the 1980s, she helped to start the Dorje Pamo Nunnery, along with Venerable Chodron. Venerable Sangye Khadro has studied Buddhism with many great masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. She began teaching in 1979 and was a resident teacher at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore for 11 years. She has been resident teacher at the FPMT centre in Denmark since 2016, and from 2008-2015, she followed the Masters Program at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Venerable Sangye Khadro has authored several books, including the best-selling How to Meditate, now in its 17th printing, which has been translated into eight languages. She has taught at Sravasti Abbey since 2017 and is now a full-time resident.