thought transformation

Teachings on lojong or thought training techniques to train the mind to turn difficult circumstances into opportunities for spiritual growth and awakening.

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Cover of Taming the Mind.
Taming the Mind

Colleagues and clients

Bringing our practice into the workplace to transform habitual ways of relating to others.

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On Cultivating Wisdom

The middle way

Thoughts on the importance of taking responsibility for one's own experiences. We are not victims…

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Seven-point Mind Training

An inherently existent self

How to investigate if the self is inherently different from the aggregates and steps in…

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Seven-point Mind Training

The self and the aggregates

Selflessness of persons: how to investigate if the self is inherently one with the aggregates.

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Seven-point Mind Training

Review: Object of negation

A review of the commentary on identifying the object of negation: the reasoning used to…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Establishing selflessness

Three mistaken approaches to determining selflessness and the order for establishing selflessness.

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Seven-point Mind Training

The root of samsara

How things and self are merely imputed by thought and how ignorance is the root…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Review: Teachings on emptiness

A review of the beginning of the section on cultivating ultimate bodhicitta: creating the causes…

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Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions

Joy and courage

Continuing the discussion on joy and courage, and a discussion on verses about love and…

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Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions

Transforming depression and anxiety

Recognizing how thoughts fuel emotions, how happiness and suffering originate within the mind, and cultivating…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Review: Bodhicitta and the afflictions

A review of the end of the section on cultivating conventional bodhicitta and the meaning…

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