Blo sbyong dmar khrid shar rtse chos rje la gnang ba
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བློ་སྦྱོང་དམར་ཁྲིད་ཤར་རྩེ་ཆོས་རྗེ་ལ་གནང་བ།
blo sbyong dmar khrid shar rtse chos rje la gnang ba
Practical Instructions on Mind Training Given to Shartse Chöje
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This text presents practical instructions of mind training compiled by Panchen Lama Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen for Sharze Chöje. The instruction combines visualization, prayer, and meditation techniques centered on Amitābha Buddha (visualized as inseparable from one's guru) to cultivate bodhicitta—the aspiration to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. The practice emphasizes foundational teachings including refuge, impermanence, karma, and the sufferings of cyclic existence, then progresses to more advanced Mahāyāna practices: recognizing all beings as having been one's mother, developing compassion, abandoning self-cherishing, and training in the exchange of self and others through the technique of "sending and taking" (tonglen), where one gives away happiness and merit while absorbing others' suffering. The practitioner is instructed to transform all adverse conditions into opportunities for spiritual development, maintain these practices through the "five powers" even at death, and ultimately recognize that subduing self-grasping is the essence of all 84,000 teachings of the Buddha.
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blo sbyong dmar khrid shar rtse chos rje la gnang ba [བློ་སྦྱོང་དམར་ཁྲིད་ཤར་རྩེ་ཆོས་རྗེ་ལ་གནང་བ།]. [Practical Instructions on Mind Training Given to Shartse Chöje].
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