How we can explore the limitations of dualistic mind and transform our attitude to welcome every experience as an opportunity for spiritual development, using the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje.  Lama Zopa guides a meditation of shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing.

EPISODE CONTENTS

00:35 Teaching by Lama Yeshe

19:52 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel

44:47 Song: Lo Jong (to the tune of ““So Long, Farewell” Music by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein for The Sound of Music

47:57 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa

Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days.

COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND

Download Lama Yeshe's ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, free through the holiday season.

The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron

Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with her own brief commentary

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