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7 POINT MIND TRAINING
TUSHITA MEDITATION CENTRE, INDIA
OVERVIEW
Wisdom and compassion are equally essential in the pursuit of genuine happiness. The practice of lojong or “mind training” enables us to fully develop both of these qualities, to awaken our mind and to open our heart.

Using Geshe Chekawa's classic text,  Seven-Point Mind Training, this course presents methods for cultivating both wisdom (ultimate bodhicitta) and compassion (conventional bodhicitta). In addition, this course also focuses on how to transform problems into opportunities for spiritual awakening and how to integrate all the various practices into our daily life with extensive practical advice.

Recommended Reading
Essential Mind Training – Thupten Jinpa
Buddhism with an Attitude – B. Alan Wallace
The Practice of Lojong – Traleg Kyabgon
FACILITATORS
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Glen Svensson 
(classes)
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Renato Schnoell
(meditations)
MATERIALS
Course materials
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File Type: pdf
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Note: The commentary used in this course 'A Commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training' 
​by Se Chilbu Chokyi Gyaltsen 
can be found in the book 'Essential Mind Training' by Thupten Jinpa.
DAY 1 ('right click' to download) 
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1.1 Introduction
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1.2 Three vehicles
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1.3 SHAMATHA (full-body)

DAY 2 (classes & meditations)
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2.1 SHAMATHA (abdomen)
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2.2 Preliminaries
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2.3 Preliminaries
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2.4  Preliminaries
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2.5 Shamatha
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2.6 DEATH AWARENESS
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2.7 PREPARATION

DAY 3 (classes & meditations)
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3.1 SHAMATHA (nostrils)
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3.2 Shamatha
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3.3 Shamatha
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3.4 Ultimate bodhicitta
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3.5 Ultimate bodhicitta
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3.6 EMPTINESS of PERSON
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3.7 EQUANIMITY

DAY 4 (classes & meditations)
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4.1 SHAMATHA (mind)
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4.2 Ultimate bodhicitta
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4.3 Ultimate bodhicitta
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4.4 Ultimate bodhicitta
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4.5 Ultimate bodhicitta
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4.6 EMPTINESS of MEDITATOR
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4.7 EXCHANGING SELF with OTHERS

DAY 5 (classes & meditations)
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5.1 SHAMATHA (mind)
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5.2 Conventional bodhicitta
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5.3 Conventional bodhicitta
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5.4 Conventional bodhicitta
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5.5 Adverse conditions
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5.6 SELF-CHERISHING
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5.7 TONG-LEN (giving & taking)

DAY 6 (classes & meditations)
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6.1 SHAMATHA (mind)
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6.2 Adverse conditions
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6.3 Adverse conditions
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6.4 Adverse conditions
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6.5 Adverse conditions
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6.6 QUALITIES of SUFFERING
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6.7 VAJRASATTVA PURIFICATION

DAY 7 (classes & meditations)
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7.1 SHAMATHA (awareness)
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7.2 Lifetime's practice
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7.3 Lifetime's practice
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7.4 Measure of training
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7.5 FIVE POWERS (at death)
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7.6 FIVE POWERS (in life)

DAY 8 (classes & meditations)
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8.1 SHAMATHA (awareness)
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8.2 Commitments
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8.3 Commitments
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8.4 Precepts
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8.5 Precepts
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8.6 KINDNESS of OTHERS

DAY 9 (advice)
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9.1 Meditation advice
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9.2 General Advice
"The term 'dogma' refers to a coherent, universally applied worldview consisting of a collection of beliefs and attitudes that call for intellectual and emotional allegiance. As such, a dogma has a power over individuals and communities that is far greater than the power of mere facts and fact-related theories. Indeed, it may prevail despite the most obvious contrary evidence, and commitment to it may grow all the more zealous when obstacles are met. There are many kinds of dogmas, including religious, philosophical, political, and scientific."            
                                                                                                                      B. Alan Wallace (Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge)
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