59 DAYS OF HEALING DUALISTIC MIND
A Method for Daily Practice
of the Mahayana Seven Point Mind Training
with contemporary translation and commentary
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59 Maxims in Seven Points
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Begin here for an overview of the Prajna Sparks podcast's 59 Days of Healing Dualistic Mind series and how to tailor it to your situation.Then click the links below to encounter each of the maxims one by one for your individual practice.​
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POINT ONE: BEGIN WITH THE BASICS
1.​ First, lay the foundation.
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POINT TWO: NURTURE THE INTENT TO AWAKEN
2.​ Treat everything as a dream.
3.​ Examine the essence of awareness, beyond arising.
4. ​Let go of even the remedy, on the spot.
5.​ Rest in essence, the ground of all.
6.​ Between meditation sessions, act like an illusionist.
7.​ Practice giving and taking in alternation, synchronizing the two with your breath.
8.​ Three sets of three: things, poisons, virtues.
9.​ Exercise these maxims in all your everyday activities.
10.​ Begin the process of welcome with yourself.
POINT THREE: TURN CHALLENGES INTO OPPORTUNITIES
11.​ When troubles abound, turn adversity into your path to waking up.
12. Lay all the blame at the feet of the one and only culprit.
13.​ Take in the immense kindness of all beings.
14.​ Perceiving confused appearances as enlightened experience is the stronghold of emptiness.
15.​ The best approach incorporates four observances.
16.​ When you get blindsided, carry whatever hit you right into your practice.
POINT FOUR: ENRICH EVERY MOMENT
17.​ The crux of the key instructions is to invoke these five forces.
18.​ The previous five forces are vital at the time of death, so your daily practice is decisive.
POINT FIVE: TRACK YOUR PROGRESS
19.​ All the Buddha’s teachings have a single purpose.
20.​ Consistently be your own best judge.
21.​ A light heart is our one true solace.
22.​ When you can stay with this even when distracted, you are indeed adept.
POINT SIX: HEALING PROMISES
23.​ Always follow three basic principles.
24.​ Transform your outlook yet lay low.
25.​ Say nothing of others’ failings.
26.​ Mind your own business.
27.​ Begin healing your most robust emotional reflex.
28.​ Release all expectations of success.
30.​ Do not rely on righteousness.
31.​ Do not be baited into backbiting.
33.​ Stop pushing people’s buttons.
35.​ Stop competing for first place.
36.​ Do not be passive aggressive.
37.​ Do not debase goodness with harm.
38.​ Do not mine misfortune for titillation.
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POINT SEVEN: TIPS
39.​ One thing makes everything sacred.
40.​ Face all trials the same way.
41.​ Open and close with two acts.
42.​ Either way, be magnanimous.
43.​ Guard two things as if your life depends on it.
44.​ Train in three rigorous practices.
45.​ Embrace the three efficient causes.
46. ​Nurture three things without erosion.
47.​ Sustain the unity of three things.
49.​ Always meditate on whatever gets you worked up.
50.​ Do not count on circumstances.
51.​ Here and now, practice what matters.
52.​ Avoid what is misguided.
55.​ Free yourself by both investigating and examining.
58.​ Don’t be a drama queen.
59. ​Stop yearning for standing ovations.
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Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, translated from the Tibetan with contemporary commentary by Lama Karma Yeshe Chödrön. Heal Transform Transcend. Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje’s Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. (Prajna Fire Publications 2022).
