Mind Training Quotes

“Come here, I shall bless you within nonduality;”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“First to explain ethical discipline: It’s the root of higher transmigration; It’s the staircase to liberation; It’s the antidote to suffering;”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“Therefore hold this fact of not being the object of your own disapproval”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“O prince, abide in meditative equipoise on the spacelike ultimate. [16] In the illusionlike subsequent periods, reflect on karma and its fruits.” When the teacher revealed”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“He is untainted by elaborations of the eight mundane concerns.77”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“These are visualized in the form of white clouds, bright lights, and streams of nectar, which enter the bodies of other beings.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“These are visualized in the form of streams of dark clouds, smoke, or even brackish water, which enter our body.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“They harm me today not willfully but out of a deluded mind. I have pursued my own self-interest since beginningless time, without regard to negative karma, suffering, or disrepute, and I have thus accumulated afflictions and negative karma. Because of this I have wandered in this infinite cycle of existence, embracing misery as practice. The blame for all of this lies in the self. Even at present, in my quest for enlightenment for the benefit of self and others, as I uncontrollably exploit and create obstacles for my dear mothers because of my negative karma, I am causing obstacles to the happiness of all sentient beings. So the blame for their departing to the hells in their future lives lies also in me. This is most sad indeed.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“May the sufferings of all sentient beings and those sufferings’ causes ripen upon me, and may my own self be subdued and annihilated. May my virtues ripen on all sentient beings, and may they become endowed with happiness.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“If you aspire to self-mastery, [286] apply the antidotes to pride; If you aspire to overcome all obstacles,”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“The Amoghapāśa Tantra states:             “Wisdom” refers to enlightenment, while “heroic being” indicates skillful means; with these two, the welfare of sentient beings will be achieved.468”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“Remain in equipoise on this spacelike nature, my son.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“recite Oṃ Āḥ Hūṃ three times.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“I am” is but a deception; “I want” is but an appeasement [of ego]; “The other” is but an enemy’s word; “I do not want” is a hindrance. 39 “Self and others” are terms of division; “Attachment and aversion” words of conflict; He who makes such distinctions Has become deficient in profound Dharma.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“offer the mind training called Stages of the Heroic Mind To help overcome fear and fatigue.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“With your fangs of four powers”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“pursuing virtuous activities in the pure realms. Therefore, those capable of training the mind are not vulnerable to the proliferation of the five degenerations and remain contented. If you know how to train the mind, even your body, the body of a mind training yogi, is known as the “city that is a source of joy.” For all happiness—of this and future lives, of self and others—comes”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“Instead you recognize all such tasks as obligations, so boastfulness toward others simply does not occur.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“Furthermore, because your spiritual teachers, parents, and bodhisattvas are objects of special significance—the fruitional effects are inconceivably [grave] if you accumulate negative karma in relation to them—single them out [for special focus] and engage in the training.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“Thus make sure your enthusiasm for mind training remains undiminished. As for the pledges of the Great and Lesser vehicles you have taken, [75] you should, by sailing the great ship of shame and conscientiousness, which are the [true] antidotes, learn to guard them undiminished, not tainted by even the slightest infractions.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“no matter where you go, due to karma you will find enemies and friends.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“Whatever tasks befall you, do not engage in malicious jokes that tear at others’ hearts or cause them to lose their composure. Regardless of their culpability, avoid insulting and speaking harshly to others—whether close or distant, good or bad.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“Do not speak of the defects [of others]. This states that you should never speak of others’ defects—neither their worldly defects, for instance by calling them “That blind person,” [70] nor their spiritual defects, for instance by calling them “That morally degenerate person.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“Therefore hold this fact of not being the object of your own”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“and die while in that mindstate.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“I shall allow my mind to fade into space.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“Then, without any attachment to your possessions of this life, generate a fearless attitude with regard to your future life.”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“Those who can mentally cope should also do the following”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

“Since I am ignorant, please care for me in the best way possible.” Make the following supplication as well:             If being sick is best, please make me ill;             If being cured is best, please restore my health;             If being dead is best, please make me die;             If long life is best, please prolong my life;             If shorter life is best, please shorten my life.             May all enjoy the fortune of enlightenment.222”
― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection

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― Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection