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SUMMARY:The Seven Points of Mind Training
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n\nTutors: Choden and Heather Regan-Addis\nDates: 29th October 2025 – 16th September 2026\nPrice: £330.00, payable in two monthly instalments of £165.00.\nTimes: Wednesday evenings from 19.00-21.00pm. The dates are the 29th October, 12th November, 17th December 2025, 21st January, 11th February, 11th March, 29th April, 27th May, 17th June, 15th July, 19th August and 16th September 2026.\nBooking: contact info@mindfulnessassociation.net ( mailto:info@mindfulnessassociation.net )\nLocation: Online via Zoom\nThis course will explore the Seven Points of Mind Training (called Lojong in Tibetan) in a pragmatic step by step way.  Lojong is a profound and famous text from Tibetan Buddhism that lays out specific guidelines for how to apply wisdom and compassion in our meditation practice and daily lives.  It is characterised by pithy slogans for relating proactively to everyday issues and difficulties and seeing them as the fertile ground for living a wise and compassionate life. \n\n\nIt is based on the principle of regarding life obstacles and difficulties as the basis for deepening our awareness and strengthening our compassion rather than them being issues that drag us down. The well-known practice called Tonglen (taking and sending) comes from the Seven Points of Mind Training.\n\n\nIn the words of the Dalai Lama, “Lojong teaches us how to regard others with the dignity and care that they deserve, and also how to transcend the limitations of conventional ego-grasping.”\n\n\nIt challenges our default setting of ‘me’ and ‘mine’ – our ingrained egocentricity – by encouraging us to expand our hearts to include the pain and struggles of other living beings and see them as being just like our own. This is the basis for sacred outlook – seeing our life as an integral part of the rich fabric of life on this planet, rather than something separate and distinct.\n\n\nDuring the course we will cover these key themes:\n\n\n\nExplain each of the 7 Points in an experiential and pragmatic way\n\n\n\n\nExplore the meaning of bodhicitta (awakening mind)\n\n\n\n\nExplain the principle of relative and ultimate truth and how Lojong deepens our compassion at the relative level and awakens our wisdom at the ultimate level.\n\n\n\n\nApply awareness and compassion to the detail of our everyday lives through the pith instructions of Lojong.\n\n\n\n\nExplore tonglen practice in the context of the Lojong teachings\n\n\n\n\nThis course will be taught in the experiential style of the Mindfulness Association that draws on wisdom traditions like Tibetan Buddhism but does not require adherence to any faith or religious tradition.\n\n\n\nChoden and Heather will lead monthly online evening sessions and provide home practice guidelines between sessions including reading materials and guided audios of the practices.\n\n\nWe hope that you will join us on this one-year journey of mind training. This training is suitable for anyone who has trained in mindfulness meditation.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/tAP1UeKZNWs” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row]\n
URL:https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/course/seven-points-of-mind-training/
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