Tao Te Ching
Atisha ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་མར་མེ་མཛད་དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་
(Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna)
980 – 1054 CE
One of the major figures in classical Buddhism, Atiśa inspired students and teachers from Tibet to Sumatra. Born into royalty in the capital of the Pala Empire, Atiśa became a monk and scholar said to have studied with more than 150 different teachers. Founder of the Kadam School, he traveled and taught widely. In The Seven Points of Mind Training he condensed Buddhist teachings into easy-to-remember slogans. The lineage of people using this technique includes Aesop, Balthasar Gracian, Ben Franklin, Erasmus, Yang Xiung as well as The Dhammapada.
Eras
Chinese
5 Kingdom of Dali 大理国 (937 – 1253 CE)Northern Song (960 – 1127 CE)
Liao dynasty (907 – 1125 CE)
Western Xia 西夏 (1038 – 1227 CE)
Sources
Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
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Quotes by Atisha (18 quotes)
“All dharmas should be regarded as dreams.”
from Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
Chapters:
49. No Set Mind
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“As soon as you meet a situation, join it with meditation.”
from Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
Chapters:
16. Returning to the Root, Meditation
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“Be grateful to everyone.”
from Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
Chapters:
31. Victory Funeral
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“become a child of illusion.”
from Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
Chapters:
12. This Over That
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“Change your attitude and relax as it is.”
from Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
Chapters:
57. Wu Wei
43. No Effort, No Trace
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“Don't bring things to a painful point.”
Chapters:
63. Easy as Hard
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“Don’t be predictable and guileless.”
from Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
Chapters:
18. The Sick Society
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“Don’t transfer the cow’s load to the ox.”
Chapters:
77. Stringing a Bow
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“Drive all blame into one.”
from Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
Chapters:
8. Like Water
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“Give up any possibilities of fruition.”
Chapters:
81. Journey Without Goal
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“Rest in the nature of alaya (‘simplicity and in clear and nondiscriminating mind’- CTR).”
from Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
Chapters:
28. Turning Back
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“Self-liberate the antidotes.”
from Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
Chapters:
19. All Methods Become Obstacles
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“The purpose of all dharma is contained in one point.”
Chapters:
3. Weak Wishes, Strong Bones
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“The unsurpassable protection of emptiness is to see the manisfestations of bewilderment as the four kayas.”
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12. This Over That
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“Three objects, three poisons, three virtuous seeds.”
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67. Three Treasures
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“When the world is filled with seeming sin, all mishaps should be diverted into the path of bodhi.”
Chapters:
50. Claws and Swords
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“Your spouse is going to be dead soon. You are going to be dead soon. Be nice to each other.”
from Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
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“Give up all hope of fruition.”
from Seven Points of Mind Training, Lojong བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ;
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