The Classic Guide to Lojong, a Tibetan Buddhist Practice for Cultivating the Heart of Compassion
Translated by Ken McLeod
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Excerpt from The Great Path of Awakening

Train wholeheartedly.

Without indulging any distraction, train yourself only in mind training, being completely involved with this one concern.

Find freedom by probing and testing.

You must find freedom from disturbing emotions and ego-clinging by constantly examining and investigating your course of experience. Therefore, turn your attention to an object that gives rise to disturbing emotions. Examine carefully whether they arise or not. If they do arise, apply remedies vigorously. Again, look at ego-clinging to see what it is like. If it appears that no ego-clinging is present, examine it again in reference to an object of attachment or aversion. If ego-cherishing then arises, immediately stop it with the remedy of exchanging yourself for others.

Don't boast.

Don't make a big fuss even when you are kind to another person, because you are, in fact, just working at regarding others as more important than yourself. Since all the time and hardship you put into being well educated, moral, and practicing the dharma benefit you, there is no point in making a fuss about it to others. Don't trade boasts with others. In the counsels of Ra-treng it says: "Don't expect much of people; pray to your yidam."

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