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ONLINE | 1st & 3rd Mondays at 9-10 AM US MT
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ONGOING Monthly on First and Third Mondays
9:00- 10:00 AM Mountain Time
via Zoom online video conference
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What if the tumult of your mind were an invitation to train, to open, and to awaken?
This is the posture of lojong, the Tibetan Buddhist discipline of mind training which Lama Yeshe translates as healing dualistic mind. In Tibetan, lo means “mind,” and jong means “to train,” “to refine,” or “to heal.” Practical and quietly revolutionary, lojong is stealth practice at its best, helping us to meet ordinary life as the teeming field of awakening possibility.
Mind training teachings trace back to India and came into Tibet through masters such as Atiśa, where they spread their branches into multiple lineages. Among the various source texts for the practice, the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, compiled by Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, gathers 59 pithy, potent maxims designed to heal and transform how we meet samsaric experience, ultimately transcending the misperception of dualistic mind altogether.
The lojong practice heals by questioning the engrossing scripts dualistic mind projects onto our world. As we proceed, it transforms our understanding of ourselves and life by exposing the continuous replay of our old storylines—new scenery, same loop. Ultimately, we transcend the sticky spiral of samsaric projection, rising with love, courage, and wisdom to fulfill our highest aspirations.
Shaping a formal meditation practice as well as a lived practice interwoven through our days. Living the maxims sparks vibrant understanding of how the distortions of dualistic thinking—me versus you, gain versus loss, happy versus sad—all the this’s and that’s, roils the heart-mind, contracting our experience of ourself, others, and the world.
Along with healing the harm that comes of this turmoil, lojong encourages a shift in outloo, gradually transforming dualistic limitation into a panoramic perspective on everyday life that foregrounds curiosity, compassion, and clarity.
This will be a steady place to dive into lojong from a Mahamudra perspective, with time to practice and reflect together.
We will draw from Chekawa Yeshe Dorje’s Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. Participants will receive free access to helpful supports, including Yeshe’s ebook Heal Transform Transcend, her translation of the maxims with brief commentary, and the Prajna Sparks podcast series 59 Days of Healing Dualistic Mind.
Each session includes formal meditation practice, instruction, and discussion.
Open to all levels of experience.