- Genre:body, mind & spirit
- Sub-genre:Mindfulness & Meditation
- Language:English
- Pages:112
- eBook ISBN:9798350928310
- Paperback ISBN:9798350718867
Book details
Overview
The Lojong is the refined, boiled down, encapsulation of the path of spiritual awakening. The Lojong begins with the Four Facts of Life, also know as The Four Thoughts to Turn the Mind to Awakening. The fact life is difficult, the fact most of our difficulties we cause ourselves; the fact this precious human life is our best opportunity to awaken to who we already are; and the fact that life is short and will come to an end whether we're ready or not.
The promise of awakening accurately reflects we already have everything we need to do so. Awakening is at hand, the challenge for thousands of years is finding the skillful means for doing so. We now know it's not necessary to abandon our family and move into a cave, live in a foreign country, or even give up a religion; awakening is seeing things 'as they are,' whatever they are, as the natural Wisdom & Compassion potential in all of us.
Description
Waking up spiritually is challenging, the product of our mental, emotional, and spiritual maturity and the desire for happiness and wellbeing for ourselves and others. The ancient dharma teachings offer a remedy for human suffering as spiritual practice, to recognize the wisdom difficulties and suffering offer us. Happiness cannot be dictated, legislated, or regulated, happiness and wellbeing are our birthright and available to us in this very moment.
The beauty of the Lojong is the brevity and pithiness of the Seven Parts and Sixty Slogans inviting us, allowing us, to realign our view of the world and ourselves with greater clarity, integrity and wholeness. The Lojong Slogans are like 'the facts of life,' working with them dissolves the limitations of bias, prejudice, negativity, and preferential judgments obscuring the wisdom of everything we experience into the space of natural awareness.
