Osho: Always Rely on Just a Happy Frame of Mind Chogyam Trungpa: Always Maintain Only a Joyful Mind Pema Chodron: Always Maintain Only a Joyful Mind Jamgon Kongtrul: Always Have the Support of a Joyful Mind Alan Wallace: Rely Continually on Mental Happiness Alone Rabten & Dhargyey: One is Always Accompanied by Only Joyful Thoughts. Dilgo Khyentse: Always Be Sustained by Cheerfulness OF THE TWO JUDGES, RELY ON THE PRINCIPAL ONE YOU ARE PROFICIENT IF YOU CAN PRACTICE EVEN WHEN DISTRACTED  Yardsticks   Jamgon Kongtrul

Always Have the Support of a Joyful Mind
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When there is never any fear or despair no matter what adversity or suffering is encountered, when difficulty is taken as an aid to mind training and you always have the help of a joyful mind, then you have acquired proficiency in mind training. When adverse conditions come, meditate joyfully and, in addition, learn to take joyfully all the adversity others experience.

From The Great Path of Awakening : An Easily Accessible Introduction for Ordinary People by Jamgon Kongtrul, translated by Ken McLeod. Copyright 1993 by Ken McLeod.
Published by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston.

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