Enlightenment will be ours when we are able to care for others as much as we now care of ourselves, and ignore ourselves to the same extent that we now ignore others.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

from the book Enlightened Courage: An Explanation of the Seven-Point Mind Training

translated by Padmakara Translation Group


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• Begin the training sequence with yourself
• Using illness on the path
• The impurity of our perception
• Always be sustained by cheerfulness
• Delusion
• Antidote to our ego-clinging
• Anger is an illusion
• Signs of realization
• Well rewarded
• Forsaking all self-centeredness
• The degree of self-clinging
• Failing to use the instructions as an antidote
• Morning pledge
• Bodhicitta practice
• Taking advantage of suffering
• Honest examination
• The vows of the Mind Training
• Give up hoping for results
• All Dharma has a single goal
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