RELB 2054 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bodhicitta, Habituation, Lojong
18 Feb 2016
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O beings of greater capacity the wish for full enlightenment (buddhahood) in order to save all other beings: bodhicitta. Bodhicitta: to attain enlightenment not just for yourself, but to become a buddha so you can enlighten others: tibetan word for mind training is lojong . Jong training, habituation, purification/cleansing: mind training is a native tibetan genre. One of the earliest vernacular forms in tibet. Very strict and very rigorous: traced back to atisha and buddhist classics, 8 verses on mind training is the first in the genre. 8 verses on mind training: bodhicitta great compassion, no-self the emotional and behavioral ramification of this, exchanging self and others total empathic identification w/ doctrine others. First, we see others as equal to ourselves. Then we exchange our self grasping to other grasping and to prioritize others over ourselves. It is on the basis of sentient beings that you attain. In this cyclic existence, too, i"ll find no joy.
