Lojong Mind Training in Seven Ponits

by Gelek Rimpoche

The most compelling among habitual patterns and the one which is the hardest to cope with is the continual creation of ego. In this specific lojong commentary on the famous text by Geshe Chekawa Gelek Rimpoche hands us “nine bullets to shoot at ego”. If they reach their target, this clears the way towards opening up our innate goodness. This can be achieved by practicing tonglen, the method of giving and taking.

164 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 21, 2013

About the author

Kyabjé Gelek Rimpoche (Tibetan: དགེ་ལེགས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie: Skyabs-rje Dge-legs Rin-po-che) is tulku (incarnate lama) of Drepung Monastic University, where he received the scholastic degree of Geshe Lharampa, the highest degree given within the Gelug tradition.

Gelek is a nephew of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. He was tutored by many of the same masters as the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.

In 1959, Gelek fled to India from Tibet and gave up monastic life. He is the founder and president of Jewel Heart, "a spiritual, cultural, and humanitarian organization that translates the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism into contemporary life." Beat-poet Allen Ginsberg was among the more prominent of Jewel Heart's members.