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Training the Mind

& Cultivating Loving-Kindness

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Training the Mind

By: Chögyam Trungpa, Judith L. Lief - editor, Pema Chödrön - foreword
Narrated by: Roger Clark
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Warning: Using this book could be hazardous to your ego! The slogans it contains are designed to awaken the heart and cultivate love and kindness toward others. They are revolutionary in that practicing them fosters abandonment of personal territory in relating to others and in understanding the world as it is.

The 59 provocative slogans presented here - each with a commentary by the Tibetan meditation master Chgyam Trungpa - have been used by Tibetan Buddhists for eight centuries to help meditation students remember and focus on important principles and practices of mind training. They emphasize meeting the ordinary situations of life with intelligence and compassion under all circumstances. Slogans include, "Don't be swayed by external circumstances," "Be grateful to everyone," and "Always maintain only a joyful mind. "This edition contains a new foreword by Pema Chodron.

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Phenomenal book and practise
Narrator makes it
Chogyam Trumpa was some boy!
This 20 words review is a little annoying though

Brilliant

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This a true book on practice not just theory. To come across such a teaching one is truly blessed and should take the instruction seriously.

Wonderfully simple and precise instruction. A true mahasiddha

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I really did love it and absorb many of the lessons, however just a word of caution, if you are healing from codependcy or abuse, some of the later lessons could really trigger a fawning response and invite abuse, also his tone is pretty condescending throughout . I love the ethos behind and I will take alot of teachings from this listen, but just be mindful and take it all in as part of a bigger picture, as it can come across, slightly bad at times . I can easily understand , through listening to this text, how many gurus and spiritual teachers have emotionally abused victims to the point of suicide. I just never understood how that could be . but in the description of allowing pain to come to you to grow you , I see the point , but I think this could be very detrimental to someone early on their healing path from abuse . so I just would like to advise caution, always listen to your own inner self , but it really is a decent listen and I've listened twice. 💚

GREAT! -NBabuse survivors listen with caution

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Though the content was excellent, it was really really hard to get through this book. The reader was expressive yet difficult to keep listening to. I dunno how to explain it. The teachings are overwhelming cos I'm just beginning my spiritual journey. So many expectations that I'm sure if I can do all that is asked of me.

Entire Buddhism in one book

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For a non Buddhist, I found this very enlightening.
It pretty much leaves you with a choice. Whether to change complete, or not?

New way of thinking

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If you could sum up Training the Mind in three words, what would they be?

Insightful
Enlightening
Beautiful narration

Who was your favorite character and why?

Clear and easy to grasp explanations elaborating on a very important subject.

Which character – as performed by Roger Clark – was your favourite?

The narration of this book was just so excellent and so easy to listen to.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I found the advice and instruction in this book to be extremely helpful and I am so very glad I chose to listen....

So worth it!

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I didn't enjoy this book much and found it quite hard to get into. Wasn't what I expected

Training the mind

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Basically this book is aimed at people who are assholes. Those people who just take and take and don't give back. Those people who don't appreciate others. The thing is I'm not like that and I've given all I can to my fellow men so it's time to put myself first for once. So yea I hated this book. But hey if you think you're an asshole maybe give it a go?
Also I found the narrators voice very similar to Matt Berry from the I.T crowd. So I was waiting for him to shout "FATHER!" the whole time. Very off putting.

Should be called "How not to be an assh#ole"

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