Atisha's Mahamudra and The Seven Point Mind Training
D5S2 - Practise What Is Important
Lama Alan · 81 minutes · recorded January 1, 2022
The closing aphorisms, and the end of the transmission of the text. Lama Alan Wallace explains the distinctive ones: those who harm you, the ones to focus on, then your teachers, your parents and bodhisattvas, with whom both virtue and non-virtue are heavy. He works through practise what is important, do not be bound by distemper, and do not yearn for gratitude. Questions follow on whether to study or first work on your own mind, and from a monk facing conscription who may be sent to fight.
Ethics and precepts Gratitude and appreciation Teacher and student The bodhisattva path Lojong (mind training) Mahamudra The Seven Point Mind Training