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Generating Bodhicitta

May 12, 2026June 6, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 11 minutesA compilation of advice about Dharma studies and practice

Categories Uncategorized Tags bodhicitta, bodhisattva, guru puja (lama chöpa), merit, motivation, self-cherishing

Part One: Mind Training – Developing Bodhicitta

May 12, 2026May 31, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 27 minutesA commentary on the emptiness section of the Seven Point Mind Training text

Categories Uncategorized Tags accumulation, bodhicitta, lama tsongkhapa, liberation, morality, motivation, patience, purification, samsara (cyclic existence), self-cherishing, suffering

Bibliography and Recommended Reading

May 12, 2026May 25, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 3 minutesA Commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training

Categories Uncategorized Tags bodhicitta, dharma in daily life, dharma practice, mind training (lo-jong), motivation, self-cherishing

Chapter Seven: The Fifth Point – The Measure of Having Trained the Mind

May 12, 2026May 25, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 3 minutesA Commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training

Categories Uncategorized Tags bodhicitta, dharma in daily life, dharma practice, mind training (lo-jong), motivation, self-cherishing

Chapter Four: The Second Point – The Actual Practice,Training in Bodhicitta

May 12, 2026May 25, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 34 minutesA Commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training

Categories Uncategorized Tags bodhicitta, emptiness (shunyata), kindness of mother sentient beings, samsara (cyclic existence), self-cherishing, selfishness, seven point cause and effect, suffering, tong-len (exchanging self and others), truly existent

The Kindness of Others: Editor’s Introduction

May 12, 2026May 25, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 3 minutesA Commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training

Categories Uncategorized Tags bodhicitta, dharma in daily life, dharma practice, mind training (lo-jong), motivation, self-cherishing

The Kindness of Others

May 12, 2026May 25, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 2 minutesKhensur Rinpoche Geshe Jampa Tegchok gives a commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training. He bases his explanation on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa’s classic text, The Seven Point Mind Training.

Categories Geshe Jampa Tegchok Tags bodhicitta, dharma in daily life, dharma practice, mind training (lo-jong), motivation, self-cherishing

Part 3: Bodhicitta

May 12, 2026May 24, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 26 minutesA teaching on The Three Principal Aspects of the Path by Ven. Denma Lochö Rinpoche at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London, in early October 2001.

Categories Uncategorized Tags bodhicitta, cherishing others, equanimity, kindness of mother sentient beings, self-cherishing

Commentary on the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

January 28, 2026April 22, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 25 minutesA commentary given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the text written by Kadampa Geshe Langri Tangpa in Dharamsala, India, 1981.

Categories HH Dalai Lama, Teachings From Tibet Tags anger, cherishing others, dependent arising, eight verses, mind training (lo-jong), patience, pride, q&a, self-cherishing, selfishness

Equalizing Ourselves with Others

May 11, 2023April 13, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is an excerpt from a teaching by Ribur Rinpoche given at Watsonville, CA in June, 2002.

Categories Ribur Rinpoche Tags equilibrium, happiness, self-cherishing, suffering

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