The Seven Points of Mind Training

Though from beginningless samsara, all beings have assiduously chased after outer objects to procure happiness and remove suffering, these hopes remain unfulfilled. Knowing that one’s mind is the real source of all happiness and suffering, the Buddha taught countless means to tame one’s mind. With the Mind Training instructions, one uses any and all tribulations as means to gather the accumulations and remove obscurations. Merely adopting these mental attitudes allows one to use negativities for enrichment. They are pith instructions of the Mahayana.

I. The Preliminaries

II. The Actual Practice

III. Transforming Difficulties into the Path of Enlightenment

IV. Condensed Instructions on Practice for an Entire Life

V. Evaluation of Mind Training

VI. Commitments of Mind Training

VIII. Guidelines of Mind Training