buddhist proverbs: how to practice
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A reflection on Buddhist proverbs from the 12th century on how to develop your practiceTRANSCRIPT
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How to practice
Buddhist proverbs from the 12th century
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First, train in the preliminaries.
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Treat everything you perceive as a dream.
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Find the consciousness you had before you were born.
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Let even the remedy itself drop away naturally.
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Stay in the primeval consciousness, the basis of everything.
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Between meditations, treat everything as an illusion.
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As you breathe in, take in and accept all the sadness, pain, and negativity of the
whole world, including yourself, and absorb it into your heart. As you
breathe out, pour out all your joy and bliss; bless the whole of existence.
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Understand your attachments, your aversions, and your indifference, and
love them all.
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Apply these proverbs in everything you do.
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When practicing unconditional acceptance, start with yourself.
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When everything goes wrong, treat disaster as a way to wake up.
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Take all the blame yourself.
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Be grateful to everyone.
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Don’t worry—there’s nothing real about your confusion.
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When something unexpected happens, in that very moment, treat
it as a meditation.
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Work with the five forces. The five forces are…
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∞ Be intense, be committed.
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∞ Get used to doing and being what you want to do and to be.
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∞ Cultivate the positive seeds, not the negative ones.
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∞ Turn totally away from all your ego trips.
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∞ Dedicate all the merits of what you do for the benefit of others.
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All teachings have the same goal.
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Follow the inner witness rather than the outer ones.
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Always have the support of a joyful mind.
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Practicing even when distracted is good training.
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Always observe these three points:
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∞ Practice regularly.
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∞ Don’t waste time on inessentials.
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∞ Don’t rationalize your mistakes.
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Change your attitude, but stay natural.
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Do not discuss defects.
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Don’t worry about other people.
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Work on your greatest imperfection first.
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Abandon all hope of results.
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Give up poisonous food.
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Don’t be so predictable.
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Don’t indulge in malicious gossip.
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Don’t wait in ambush.
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Don’t strike at the heart.
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Don’t put the yak’s load on the cow.
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Remember—this is not a competition.
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Don’t be sneaky.
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Don’t abuse your divine power for selfish reasons.
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Don’t expect to profit from other people’s misfortune.
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In all your activities, have a single purpose.
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Solve all problems by accepting the bad energy and sending out the
good.
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Renew your commitment when you get up and before you go to sleep.
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Accept good and bad fortune with an equal mind.
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Keep your vows even at the risk of your life.
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Recognize your neurotic tendencies, overcome them, then transcend
them.
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Find a teacher, take the roving mind, choose a lifestyle that allows you to
practice.
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Love your teacher, enjoy your practice, keep your vows.
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Focus your body, mind, and spirit on the path.
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Exclude nothing from your acceptance practice: Train with a
whole heart.
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Always meditate on whatever you resent.
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Don’t depend on how the rest of the world is.
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In this life, concentrate on achieving what is most meaningful.
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Don’t let your emotions distract you, but bring them to your practice.
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Don’t let your practice become irregular.
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Train wholeheartedly.
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Free yourself by first watching, then analyzing.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself.
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Don’t be jealous.
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Stay focused.
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Don’t expect any applause.
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Peace.
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About this presentation
• I found these Buddhist proverbs on the Tonglen and Mind Training Site at http://lojongmindtraining.com and created this presentation for my own learning. If you’d like to know more about these practices, you can find a wealth of information, along with commentaries by leading teachers, on the site listed above.
Katherine Murray, Practical ~ f a i t h ~ , 2008