Change Your Mind, Change Your Life
A five-part course with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on Atisha's lojong root verses and carrying practice into daily life, recorded at Colet House in 2016.
The real test of spiritual practice happens not on the cushion or in the protected space of retreat, but moment to moment in daily life, and particularly when we find ourselves in uncomfortable situations. How do we respond? Recorded at Colet House in London in 2016, this five-part course has Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo taking up a question central to all Buddhist practice: how do we carry what we have learned out of the protected space of retreat and apply it in our day-to-day lives? It is much more complicated and uncomfortable there, but it is in that everyday application of learning and insight that the real test of practice lies. She draws throughout on Atisha's Lojong root verses on training the mind.
What this course covers
- Taking practice off the cushion and into ordinary life
- Atisha's Lojong root verses on training the mind
- How we respond when a situation is uncomfortable
- Why retreat is the shelter and daily life is the test
- Changing our circumstances by changing our minds
Sessions
- Part One - Atisha's Root Verses, and Taming the Monkey Mind 137 minutes
- Part Two - The Perfections Turned Around, and Questions on Anger 80 minutes
- Part Three - Final Questions, then Refuge and the Five Precepts 43 minutes
- Part Four - What a Thought Is, and Choosing a Teacher 133 minutes
- Part Five - Mindfulness, Alertness, and Difficulty as Incitement 123 minutes