LOJONG
Training of the Mind
in Eight Verses

Geshe Langri Tanpa

One Verse a Day

Friday Verse

Verse for Friday

།གང་ལ་བདག་གིས་ཕན་བཏགས་པའི། །རེ་བ་ཆེ་བ་གང་ཞིག་གིས། །ཤིན་ཏུ་མི་རིགས་གནོད་བྱེད་ནའང་། །བཤེས་གཉེན་དམ་པར་བལྟ་བར་ཤོག།

GANG LA DAG GI PHEN TAG PE / RE WA CHE WA GANG ZHIG GI / SHIN TU MI RIG NOD JED ANG / SHE NYEN DAM PAR TA WAR SHOG

When someone whom I have helped with much hope and expectation hurts me deeply and unjustifiably may I regard him as my sublime master.

Nếu có người con từng giúp đở, với tất cả niềm tin và hết lòng kỳ vọng, làm hại và gây tổn thương con một cách trầm trọng, con nguyện xem đây là bậc thầy cao cả của con.

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Verse 6: Commentary

When we are kind to people, helping them, giving them our trust and hope, we naturally expect to be treated kindly in return. When people repay our kindness and trust by harming us or treating us in hurtful ways, we often react with anger, hurt, or disappointment. After such an experience, we may find it difficult to give them our love and respect. This type of ordinary love is conditional and impure. As practitioners, we want to embrace a situation such as this with skillful wisdom, compassion, and unconditional love. Therefore, it is essential that we have a way to transform these difficult experiences into the actual path to enlightenment. To accomplish this, we learn to see a person who harms us or treats us in hurtful ways, as our precious teacher. This person becomes our precious teacher because of the priceless dharma lessons we receive. Through their kindness, we also receive the ripening and purification of our own negative karma, which is the inevitable result of our having done a similar thing to someone in the past. In this way, we can see how even our worst enemies can be our greatest benefactors and precious teachers.

Every day's verse

།དེ་དག་ཀུན་ཀྱང་ཆོས་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི། །རྟོག་པའི་དྲི་མས་མ་སྦགས་ཤིང། ཆོས་ཀུན་སྒྱུ་མར་ཤེས་པའི་བློས། །ཞེན་མེད་འཆིང་བ་ལས་གྲོལ་ཤོག།

DE DAG KUN KYANG CHO GYAD KYI / TOG PEI DRI ME MA BAG SHING / CHO KUN GYU MAR SHE PEI LO / ZHEN MED CHING WA LEI DROL SHOG

In all this, may my mind be unstained by the eight ordinary concerns and know all things to be an illusion. Free of clinging, may I attain liberation from bondage.

Trong mọi tình huống, nguyện cho tâm con không bị lôi cuốn vào tám mối quan tâm của thế tục (được/thua, sướng/khổ, khen/chê, danh/nhục) vì biết rằng các pháp vốn như huyễn, tâm không ràng buộc và tham luyến. nguyện cho con thoát ly ra khỏi chốn ngục tù.

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Verse 8: Commentary

It is essential that our spiritual practice not be defiled or stained by the eight worldly concerns. For example, engaging in these practices hoping to be recognized or praised as an excellent dharma practitioner is not the right motivation. Nor should we practice with expectations of gaining something special or pleasurable for ourselves. Our motivation for practice must not become polluted or obscured by worldly concerns and attachment. The right motivation is to act exclusively and compassionately for the benefit of other beings. Our mind training practice must also be unified with our direct perception of ultimate truth—emptiness. As we gain realization of ultimate truth, we understand the empty, illusory, and impermanent nature of all existing things. With this realization, grasping or clinging to external appearances, or being deceived by them, diminishes, and we gain liberation from the bondage of attachment and mistaken views of reality.

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