Slogans #11-16

05/14/2020, Onryu Mary Stares, dharma talk at City Center. Onryu Mary Stares continues her series of talks on the Lojong practices. The first slogan addresses adversity and finding a way to navigate difficulty to awakening. Rejection leads to alienation, meeting our conditions leads to the awakened path. The next helps keep the blame/pain from poisoning our experience. The next addresses gratitude for the fact of our continued life. We are protected by recognizing or limitedness. Merit is accumulated in our karmic consciousness, repentance helps till the earth. Make offerings to spirits, cultivate wholesome energy. Finally, meet everything with meditation.