Seven Points of Mind Training

Point 7 : Guidelines of Mind Training

40: Correct all wrongs with one intention.

Point Seven : Correct all wrongs with one intention.

Commentary :

When you are in the midst of perverse circumstances such as intense sickness, a bad reputation, court cases, economic or domestic crisis, increase of kleshas, or resistance to practice, you should develop compassion for all sentient beings who also suffer like this, and you should aspire to take on their suffering yourself through the practice of lojong.

We need to correct, or to overcome, all the wrongs or bad circumstances that we experience. Instead of having a negative attitude toward practice and not wanting to practice any longer - whenever such perversions and problems occur, they should be overcome. In other words, if your practice becomes good when things are good for you but becomes nonexistent when the situation is bad, that is not the way. Instead, whether situations are good or bad, you continue your practice.

To correct all wrongs means to stamp on the kleshas. Whenever any bad circumstance comes up that might put you off - stamp on it. In this slogan you are deliberately, immediately, and very abruptly suppressing the kleshas.