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61 " offer the mind training called Stages of the Heroic Mind To help overcome fear and fatigue. "
― Thupten Jinpa , Mind Training: The Great Collection
62 " Train constantly toward the chosen objects: those living together [with you], those hostile toward you, and those unappealing to you. "
63 " Train with decisiveness the task of measuring whether you can do this. "
64 " Do not boast to anyone, ever, when you engage in the practice of your good deeds. "
65 " Do not be ill-tempered, regardless of how others treat you. "
66 " The meditation session divides into three—preparatory practices, the main practice, and the concluding practice. "
67 " I am” is but a deception; “I want” is but an appeasement [of ego]; “The other” is but an enemy’s word; “I do not want” is a hindrance. 39 “Self and others” are terms of division; “Attachment and aversion” words of conflict; He who makes such distinctions Has become deficient in profound Dharma. "
68 " Focus the mind with ease, lucidity, and vibrancy, not allowing it to fall under the influence of either dullness or excitation. This is presented by the following line: Place your mind on the basis-of-all, the actual path.175 You should identify the ordinary mind and place it in a state free of negation or affirmation. "
69 " caught tightly in a marriage of afflictions and karma, "
70 " This too is illusionlike, it is dreamlike. "
71 " With whom you’ve had close connections since beginningless time; "
72 " Thus make sure your enthusiasm for mind training remains undiminished. As for the pledges of the Great and Lesser vehicles you have taken, [75] you should, by sailing the great ship of shame and conscientiousness, which are the [true] antidotes, learn to guard them undiminished, not tainted by even the slightest infractions. "
73 " Recognizing your own self as the enemy186 "
74 " If you do not thoroughly exchange Your own happiness with others’ suffering, You will not become a buddha. Even in samsara there will be no happiness.178 "
75 " What use is this great demon for me?187 "
76 " Furthermore, because your spiritual teachers, parents, and bodhisattvas are objects of special significance—the fruitional effects are inconceivably [grave] if you accumulate negative karma in relation to them—single them out [for special focus] and engage in the training. "
77 " duplicity, and deviousness—toward "
78 " The prince saw the teacher and felt immeasurable joy, A joy that was most extraordinary. "
79 " So long as I fail to view this [the self] as the enemy, so long will I continue to seek the well-being of this self. "
80 " Instead you recognize all such tasks as obligations, so boastfulness toward others simply does not occur. "