The entire text of this short mind training instruction is found in Shönu Gyalchok (Compendium of Well-Uttered Insights, pp. 221-22). Until further textual evidence surfaces, it is difficult to hazard any speculation on the possible authorship of this work. Interestingly, this text provides no information on the lineage of the instruction. In fact, according to Shönu Gyalchok, this and the next entry in [the Blo sbyong brgya rtsa, Mind Training: The Great Collection, i.e., Theg pa chen po'i blo sbyong ma 'ongs pa'i 'gal rkyen spong ba, Mahayana Mind Training Eliminating Future Adversities] form a single work. This is probably the mind training text referred to in Longdöl Lama (A Useful List [of Texts]), p. 316) as Mind Training with Four Appendixes. My personal opinion based on the current sources is that this work may have been composed by Shönu Gyalchok himself on the basis of specific instructions extracted from a larger work on mind training by earlier Kadam teachers. (Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection, 607n367)
| Citation | gegs sel blo sbyong [གེགས་སེལ་བློ་སྦྱོང་།]. [Mind Training Removing Obstacles]. |
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