LOJONG
Training of the Mind
in Eight Verses

Geshe Langri Tanpa

One Verse a Day

Wednesday Verse

Verse for Wednesday

།ར་བཞིན་ངན་པའི་སེམས་ཅན་ནི། །སྡིག་སྡུག་དྲག་པོས་ནོན་མཐོང་ཚེ། །རིན་ཆེན་གཏེར་དང་འཕྲད་པ་བཞིན། རྙེད་པར་དཀའ་བའི་གཅེས་འཛིན་ཤོག།

RANG ZHING NGEN PE SEM CHEN NI / DIG DUG DRAG PO NON THONG TSHE / RIN CHEN TER DANG THRED PA ZHIN / NYID PAR DA WEI CHE TSHIN SHOG

Whenever I meet people of unpleasant character or those overwhelmed by intense negativity, paint or suffering, may I cherish and care for them as if I found a rare and precious treasure difficult to find.

Bất luận khi nào con gặp những kẽ hung hăng, khó chịu hoặc những người bạo hành và đầy ác tính hoặc đầy khổ đau, con nguyện yêu mến và chăm sóc cho họ như tìm thấy một kho báu quí hiếm và khó tìm.

Explain

Verse 4: Commentary

When we encounter unpleasant people, or those overwhelmed by negativity, pain, or suffering, we often prefer to ignore or avoid them rather than cherish and care for them. We may consider ourselves to be more important or more evolved than such beings, and we usually turn from them, as we do not want to be bothered, hurt, or contaminated by their condition. This verse suggests reversing our usual self-cherishing attitude by learning to cherish and care for such people, being joyful and grateful as if we had found a rare and precious treasure. To overcome the delusion and egoism of our self-cherishing, we view this encounter as an opportunity to serve and bring happiness to others, rather than a nuisance to be avoided. In this way, our self-cherishing mind diminishes and our compassion deepens so as to embrace all living beings without exception.

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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