Mind Training in Daily Life: Nothing Special

Contains three parts;

1) Nothing Special about Ourselves or Our Feelings - https://studybuddhism.com/en/tibetan-buddhism/mind-training/...

2) Addiction to Social Networks and Text Messaging - https://studybuddhism.com/en/tibetan-buddhism/mind-training/...

3) The Eight Worldly Concerns and Conceptual Framework - https://studybuddhism.com/en/tibetan-buddhism/mind-training/...

"Mind Training" is nothing otherworldly but merely exercises to modify/change one's attitudes and perspectives. The reason for such changes can be just to maintain equanimity when going through the everyday vicissitudes of life both good and bad.

A highly practical discipline and training which is especially needed today given all that is currently going on in the world.

Lojong (Tibetan Mind Training) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojong

Mind Training: The Great Collection translated by Thupten Jinpa - https://wisdomexperience.org/product/mind-training/ The comprehensive and definitive collection of lojong texts.

Essential Mind Training translated with introductions by Thupten Jinpa - https://wisdomexperience.org/product/essential-mind-training... A subset of the works from the above larger book. Read/buy this one first since it categorizes and introduces each topic before the actual texts themselves.

My favorite 'mind training' work is Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra. Technically this is not a lojong text but it always struck me that in purpose it most certainly is. I also remember reading somewhere that HHDL said something to that effect as well.

As for lojong, Geshe Sonam Richen's Eight Verses for Training the Mind is a great little book (I really like his translations).

B. Alan Wallace's A Passage from Solitude is an exposition on another core lojong text, Geshe Chekawa's Seven Points for Training the Mind.