It is unfortunate that the compilers of [the Blo sbyong brgya rtsa, Mind Training: the Great Collection] do not provide any information concerning the authorship of this work or the source of the instructions presented here. Since the text is briefly referred to in Shönu Gyalchok's Compendium of Well-Uttered Insights (p. 245), it is unlikely that either Shönu Gyalchok or Könchok Gyaltsen themselves wrote this piece. Future research may shed light on who is the "teacher" referred to in the colophon of this work.
The core instruction in this text relates to the mind training practice of taking, undertaken here in relation to others' afflictions, and to dismantling the solidity of the afflictions by contemplating their empty nature. As stated in the opening paragraph, the instruction for taking afflictions onto the path presented here is non-Vajrayana in its orientation. (Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection, 602n319)
| Citation | nyon mongs pa lam du blangs pa'i chos [ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ལམ་དུ་བླངས་པའི་ཆོས།]. [A Teaching on Taking Afflictions onto the Path]. |
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