LOJONG
Training of the Mind
in Eight Verses

Geshe Langri Tanpa

One Verse a Day

Saturday Verse

Verse for Saturday

།མདོར་ན་དངོས་དང་བརྒྱུད་པ་གིས། །ཕན་བདེ་མ་མམས་ཀུན་ལ་འབུལ། །མ་ཡི་གནོད་དང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཀུན། །གསང་བས་བདག་ལ་ལེན་པར་ཤོག།

DOR NA NGO DANG GYUD PA YI / PHEN DE MA NAM KUN LA WUL / MA YI NOD DANG DUG NGAL KUN SANG DAG LA LEN PAR SHOG

In short, may I directly and indirectly offer happiness and peace to al my mothers, all their evil and suffering, may I secretly take upon myselft.

Tóm lại, trực tiêp hay gián tiếp, hạnh phúc và an lạc con xin dâng lên cho từ mẫu, phiền não và đau khổ của mẹ, nguyện thầm kín thọ nhận về con.

Explain

Verse 7: Commentary

This verse refers to the essence of Tong-len practice (Giving and Taking). We are to offer, directly and indirectly, our help, happiness, benefit, skills, and resources in loving service to all beings who certainly, at some time in the past, have been our own mothers. In Tong-Ien practice, with strong compassion, we visualize taking on the obstacles, problems, illnesses, and suffering of others. We then visualize giving them all of our happiness, comfort, love, virtue, prosperity, and great insights. In this verse the word 'secretly' suggests this particular practice of compassion may not be suitable or may be too difficult for beginning practitioners. It also means that this practice should be done discreetly, and not openly displayed or spoken about so as to gain praise or recognition.

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.

Explain

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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