Lojong Slogan List

From The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind by Traleg Kyabgon

Point One: The Preliminaries

1. First, train in the preliminaries

Point Two: The Actual Practice: The Cultivation of Bodhicitta

2. Regard all phenomena as dreams
3. Examine the nature of unborn awareness
4. Even the remedy is free to self-liberate
5. Rest in the natural state, the basis of all
6. In post meditation, be a child of illusion
7. Train in taking and sending alternatively, these two should ride the breath
8. Three objects, three poisons, three seeds of virtue
9. Use sayings to train in all forms of activity
10. Begin the sequence of exchange with yourself

Point Three: Transforming Adversity into the Path of Awakening

11. When beings and the world are full of evil, transform unfavorable circumstances into the path of enlightenment
12. Drive all blames into one
13. Meditate on the great kindness of everyone
14. To see confusion as the four kayas, the protection of emptiness is unsurpassable
15. The four applications are the best method
16. Immediately join whatever you meet with meditation

Point Four: Maintaining the Practice for the Duration of Our Lives

17. A summary of the essential instructions, train in the five powers
18. The Mahayana instructions on how to die are the five powers

Point Five: Measuring the Success of Mind Training

19. All Dharma has a single purpose
20. Of the two judges, rely on the principal one
21. Always have the support of a joyful mind
22. You are proficient if you can practice even when distracted

Point Six: The Commitments of Mind Training

23. Always practice the three general principles
24. Change your attitude, but remain natural
25. Don’t talk about others’ weak points
26. Don’t think about the affairs of others
27. Work on the stronger disturbing emotions first
28. Give up all hope for results
29. Give up poisonous food
30. Don’t rely on your good nature
31. Don’t react on impulse to critical remarks
32. Don’t wait in ambush
33. Don’t make insincere comments
34. Don’t shift a ‘zo’s burden to an ox
35. Don’t aim to win
36. Don’t put exchange value on things
37. Don’t turn gods into demons
38. Don’t seek others’ pain as a means to happiness

Point Seven: Guidelines for Mind Training

39. All spiritual practices should be done with one intention
40. All corrections are made in one way
41. At the beginning and at the end, two things to be done
42. Whichever of the two occurs, be patient
43. Observe these two, even at risk of your life
44. Learn the three difficult points
45. Acquire the three root causes
46. Don’t allow three things to diminish
47. Make the three inseparable
48. Train in all areas without partiality
49. Always meditate on difficult points
50. Don’t depend on external conditions
51. This time, practice the important points
52. Avoid misunderstandings
53. Don’t fluctuate
54. Train wholeheartedly
55. Find freedom through investigation and examination
56. Don’t expect gratitude
57. Don’t react impulsively with anger or irritation
58. Don’t be like an open book
59. Don’t expect people to make a fuss over what you are doing