LOJONG
Training of the Mind
in Eight Verses

Geshe Langri Tanpa

One Verse a Day

Thursday Verse

Verse for Thursday

།བདག་ལ་གཞན་གྱིས་ཕྲག་དོག་གིས། །གཤེ་སྐུར་ལ་སོགས་མི་རིགས་པའི། གྱོང་ཁ་རང་གིས་ལེན་པ་དང་། །རྒྱལ་ཁ་གཞན་ལ་འབུལ་བར་ཤོག།

DAG LA ZHEN GYI TR'AG DOG GI / SHE KUR LA SOG MI RIG PE / GYONG KHA RANG GI LEN PA DANG / GYAL KHA ZHEN LA WUL PAR SHOG

When others, out of envy, mistreat me with slander and abuse, may I take defeat upon myself and offer the triumph to them.

Khi người khác bởi tâm ganh tị, phi lý sỉ nhục phỉ báng con, phần thua thiệt con xin chịu nhận, phần thắng lợi nguyện dành cho chúng

Explain

Verse 5: Commentary

Learning to accept loss and defeat for ourselves and offering gain and victory to others is the very foundation of the bodhisattva practice. Although it may appear, at the worldly level, that we suffer loss by way of this practice, ultimately the practitioner receives the greatest benefits of spiritual wealth and virtue. In learning to accept harsh or unjust treatment, we should not allow ourselves to react with anger, behave in the same nonvirtuous ways in return, or to abandon others because of their actions toward us. This is the essence of accepting defeat and offering the victory, and the accomplishment of supreme patience and kindness. By accepting defeat and offering the victory to others, with the pure motivation of heartfelt compassion, we destroy the ignorance of our self-cherishing at its very roots.

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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