This week we finish talking about the Lojong sayings that deal with Ultimate Bodhicitta. As we said on previous podcasts, the Lojong are a series of 57 or so short sayings that help guide us to enlightenment. These sayings are organized into 7 categories. This gives this teaching it’s other name, ‘The 7 Points of Mind Training’.

The 7 categories are:

1. The Preliminaries
2. The Main Practice (Bodhicitta )
3. Turning the negative into paths
4. Practicing in this lifetime
5. Evaluation of mind training
6. Commitments of mind training
7. Guidelines for mind training

This week we finish up the first half of the second point of mind training, The Main Practice. These slogans deal with Ultimate Bodhicitta, or Wisdom. On this podcast we cover slogans 5 and 6 which are:

5. Rest in the nature of alaya, the Essence
6. In post meditation, be a child of illusion.
A great site for information about all things Lojong is lojongmindtraining.com. It covers each of the saying with commentary from one of seven great teachers. You can even sign up to receive a random slogan and commentary e-mailed to you each day.