Module 20: Lojong

This fall and winter, we will be teaching on Lojong (mind training). We will be using the book “The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind” by Traleg Rinpoche. If you are new to Lojong feel free to read any sections that interest you and contemplate them.  You may wish to listen to talks we gave on Lojong: Cultivating Compassion in February and April 2015.

Here is the Lojong root text that we are reciting in this class. There are many other books on Lojong that are available – this is by no means a complete list.

Class 17: Point Four: Maintaining the Practice for the Duration of our Lives, Feb 22, 2018.
Slogans 17 and 18 (pages 120-146).
Audio of talk and handout, Joseph Crane.

Class 16: Guided meditation, Feb 8, 2018.
Guided meditation on “Investigating Awareness and the Mind”.
Michael Fagan,

Class 15: Point Seven (continued): Guidelines of Mind Training, Feb 1, 2018.
Slogans 50 through 59.
Audio of talk and handout, Meghan Gardner.

Class 14:  Guided meditation: You Are a Bodhisattva, Jan 25, 2017
Guided meditation on compassion practice, with discussion at the end.
Audio of talk and handout of guided meditation, Michael Levin.

Class 13: Point Seven: Guidelines of Mind Training, Jan 18, 2018
Slogans 39 through 49.
Audio of talk, Erika Wilton and Michael Fagan.

Class 12:  Point Three (continued):  Transforming Adversity, Dec 14, 2017
Slogans 14, 15, 16.
The Skillful Means of Absolute Bodhicitta (pages 99-106)
Audio of talk and handout, Joseph Crane.
Class 11:  Point Six: Commitments, Dec 7, 2017
Slogans 23 through 38.
The Commitments of Mind Training (pages 165-197)
Audio of talk, Emily Weidman.

Class 10:  Guided meditation, Nov 30, 2017
Tonglen instruction.

Audio of shamatha  and tonglen guided meditations, and discussion, Emily Weidman.

Class 9: Introduction to relative bodhicitta and tonglen, Nov 16, 2017
Slogans 7, 8, 9, 10 (pages 59 to 81)

Audio of talk, Joseph Crane.

Class 8: Point Five: Measuring Success, Nov 9, 2017
Slogans 19, 20, 21, 22.
Measuring the Success of Mind Training (pages 147-164)
Audio of talk, Michael Fagan.

Class 7: Point Three: Transforming Adversity, Nov 2, 2017
Slogans 11, 12, 13.
Transforming Adversity into the Path of Awakening (pages 82-99)
Audio of talk, Erika Wilton and Elisse Ghitelman.

Class 6: Guided meditation, Oct 26, 2017
Vipashyana—natural state
Audio of shamatha  and vipashyana guided meditations, Emily Weidman.

Class 5: Absolute bodhicitta, Oct 19, 2017
Vipashyana and slogans 2, 3, 4, 5.
Absolute bodhicitta slogans (pages 40-59)
Homework is slogan 6 “be a child of illusion”
Audio of talk, Joseph Crane.

Class 4: Point Two: The Actual Practice, Oct 12, 2017
Absolute bodhicitta and tranquility meditation (pages 29-40)
Audio of talk, Michael Fagan.
Class 3: Point One: The Preliminaries, Oct 5, 2017
Elisse will be leading us in a class on the first lojong slogan: “First, train in the preliminaries.” This involves The Four Reminders: Precious Human Birth, Death and Impermanance, Karmic Cause and Effect, and Faults of Samsara.  We suggest that you try chanting The Four Reminders on a daily basis for the next week until our class; also read Point One, pages 15-27 in The Practice of Lojong.
Audio of talk, Elisse Ghitelman.
Class 2: Guided Meditation, Sep 28, 2017
The reading is taken from Volume Two of The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in Chapter 33 , “Introduction to Mind Training”.
Audio of talk, Emily Weidman.
Class 1: Introduction to Lojong, Sep 21, 2017
Please purchase the book and read the Introduction (pages 1-13) for the first class.
Audio of talk and handout, Joseph Crane.