Atisha's Mahamudra and The Seven Point Mind Training
D3S1 - Self-Centredness and Tonglen
Lama Alan · 92 minutes · recorded January 1, 2022
Relative bodhicitta, and Shantideva's claim that self-centredness is a root of all suffering while caring for others more than oneself is a root of all happiness. Lama Alan Wallace traces the causes of suffering from the shravakayana through to dzogchen, then turns on Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents for teaching learned helplessness, and Francis Bacon's wish to put nature on the rack, which he calls psychopathic. The guided practice is tonglen with a loved one, a despised person and a neutral person.
Attachment and craving Bodhicitta practice Compassion (karuna) Dzogchen Lojong (mind training) Mahamudra Tonglen Shantideva The Seven Point Mind Training