Seven Points of Mind Training
From Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness
By Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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Point 7 : Guidelines of Mind Training
43: Observe these two, even at the risk of your life.
Point Seven :
Observe these two, even at the risk of your life.
Commentary :
You should maintain the disciplines you have committed yourself to: in
particular, 1) the refuge vow and 2) the bodhisattva vow. You should
maintain the general livelihood of being a decent Buddhist and, beyond
that, the special discipline of the practice of lojong, or mind training.
This practice should become a very important part of your life.
For tantric practitioners, this slogan means that in this life and in any
future lives, you should keep the three-yana discipline. This applies to
dharmic principles in general and to the practice of lojong in particular.
You should always keep that bond, or samaya, even at the risk of your life.