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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
File Size: 1022 kb
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
"I am delighted that the Center for Contemplative Research is offering opportunities for rigorous mind-training and collaborative research by practiced contemplatives and scientists. Together they seek to explore the inner sources of mental conflict and distress, the roots of genuine well-being, and the origins, nature, and potentials of the mind."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               His Holiness The Dalai Lama
     
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