Change Your Mind, Change Your Life: The Transformative Power of Lojong Practice

by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Transform life’s difficult moments into opportunities for growth with this clear and direct guide to Tibetan lojong, or mind training.​

Take the Tibetan Buddhist approach to mind training with lojong, a practice of simple contemplations and pithy “slogans” to train the mind in enlightened compassion, or bodhichitta. A centuries old, time-tested method, lojong remains readily applicable to daily life. 

One of the most essential lojong texts is The Seven-Point Mind-Training, a series of slogans composed by Tibetan master Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (1102–76). In this straightforward guide to The Seven Points, the renowned Buddhist teacher Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo unpacks each of Chekawa’s lojong slogans and illuminates their relevance to modern life. Jetsunma’s teachings will allow you   

Discover a wellspring of compassion to guide you in your daily life; Gain a new understanding on core Buddhist concepts like the preciousness of human life, impermanence, karma, and rebirth;Establish or develop a meditation practice for both tranquility and insight into the nature of mind;  Work with the totality of your life as an opportunity for spiritual practice and growth—even the most difficult experiences of adversity, illness, and despair.

Genres: Buddhism

224 pages, Paperback

Published May 26, 2026

About the author

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (born 1943) is a bhikṣuṇī in the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. She is an author, teacher and founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India. She is best known for being one of the very few Western yoginis trained in the East, having spent twelve years living in a remote cave in the Himalayas, three of those years in strict meditation retreat.

Vicki Mackenzie, who wrote Cave in the Snow about her, relates that what inspired the writing of the book was reading Tenzin Palmo's statement to a Buddhist magazine that "I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes".

Reviews

[Claire · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a commentary on Geshe Chekawa’s Seven Point Mind Training known as Lojong teachings, training the mind, written in the twelfth century.

Jetsunma has made these rather pithy, obscure teachings accessible and relevant for modern practitioners. This book is easy to read, informative and practical for the modern world, also deeply inspiring.

In addition there is much advice on general practise and encouragement.

Highly recommended.