To use our human lives to accomplish the Buddha dharma, is like crossing the ocean in search of costly jewels and afterwards returning home with every kind of precious thing; the difficulties of the trip will have been well rewarded.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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

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