ESSENTIAL MIND TRAINING

Essential Mind Training is drawn from the earliest collection of Tibetan spiritual literature known as ômind trainingö or lojong in Tibetan. Tibetans revere the mind training tradition for its pragmatic and down-to-earth advice, especially the teachings on ôtransforming adversity into opportunity.ö This volume contains eighteen individual works, including such renowned teachings as AtisaÆs BodhisattvaÆs Jewel Garland, Langri ThangpaÆs Eight Verses on Mind Training, and ChekawaÆs Seven-Point Mind Training, together with the earliest commentaries on these seminal texts as well as other independent works. These teachings expound the cultivation of such altruistic attitudes as compassion, love, forbearance, and perseverance, and provide numerous techniques for uprooting our habitual self-centeredness and giving us the freedom to embrace the world.