Don’t expect applause.

Don’t expect others to praise you or raise toasts to you. Don’t count on receiving credit for your good deeds or good practice.

— excerpted from “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness” by Chögyam Trungpa

Don’t be frivolous.

Don’t demonstrate frivolous jealousy at your friends’ success. If an acquaintance is wearing a new tie or a new blouse that you yourself would like, don’t capriciously point out its shortcomings to him or her. “Yes, it’s nice, but it has a stain on it.” That will only serve to irritate him and won’t help either his or your practice.

— excerpted from “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness” by Chögyam Trungpa

Don’t be jealous.

If somebody else receives praise and you don’t, don’t be envious.

— excerpted from “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness” by Chögyam Trungpa

Don’t wallow in self-pity.

Don’t feel sorry for yourself. If somebody else achieves success or inherits a million dollars, don’t waste time feeling bad because it wasn’t you.

— excerpted from “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness” by Chögyam Trungpa

Liberate yourself by examining and analyzing.

Simply look at your mind and analyze it. By doing those two things, you should be liberated from kleshas and ego-clinging. Then you can practice lojong.

— excerpted from “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness” by Chögyam Trungpa

Train wholeheartedly.

Trust yourself and your practice wholeheartedly. Train purely in lojong – single-mindedly, with no distractions.

— excerpted from “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness” by Chögyam Trungpa

Don’t vacillate.

You should not vacillate in your enthusiasm for practice. If you sometimes practice and other times do not, that will not give birth to certainty in the dharma. Therefore, don’t think too much. Just concentrate one-pointedly on mind training.

— excerpted from “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness” by Chögyam Trungpa

Don’t misinterpret.

There are six things that you may twist or misinterpret in your practice: patience, yearning, excitement, compassion, priorities, and joy. It is a misinterpretation of patience to be patient about everything in your life but the practice of dharma. Misinterpreted yearning is to foster yearning for pleasure and wealth but not to encourage the yearning to practice dharma thoroughly and properly. Misinterpreted excitement is to get excited by wealth and entertainment, but not to be excited by the study of dharma. It is twisted compassion to be compassionate to those who endure hardships in order to practice dharma, but to be unconcerned and uncompassionate to those who do evil. Twisted priorities means to work diligently out of self-interest at that which benefits you in the world, but not to practice dharma. Twisted joy is to be happy when sorrow afflicts your enemies, but not to rejoice in virtue and in the joy of transcending samsara. You should absolutely and completely stop all six of these misinterpretations.

— excerpted from “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness” by Chögyam Trungpa

This time, practice the main points.

“This time” refers to this lifetime. You have wasted many lives in the past, and in the future you may not have the opportunity to practice. But now, as a human being who has heard the dharma, you do. So without wasting any more time, you should practice the main points.

This teaching is threefold:

1. the benefit of others is more important than yourself;
2. practicing the teaching of the guru is more important than analytical study;
3. practicing bodhichitta is more important than any other practice.

— excerpted from “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness” by Chögyam Trungpa

Don’t be swayed by external circumstances.

Although your external circumstances may vary, your practice should not be dependent on that. Whether you are sick or well, rich or poor, have a good reputation or bad reputation, you should practice lojong. It is very simple: if your situation is right, breathe that out; if your situation is wrong, breathe that in.

— excerpted from “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving Kindness” by Chögyam Trungpa