Lama Jampa Thaye - Eight Verses of Mind Training - Part 1

Sakya Dechen Ling - 24.03.2018 @ the WWT London Wetland Centre, London
The composer of the root text, Geshe Langri Thangpa, the twelfth century author of 'The Eight Verses of Mind Training', was one of the most famous of the early masters of the Kadampa tradition.
In this video Lama Jampa teaches the root verses, along with the commentary composed by the eminent Chekhawa Yeshe Dorje. This teaching is a way to transform our normal, base, self cherishing mind, into the mind of a bodhisattva
The first four of the eight verses are:
1. "Being determined to accomplish the highest welfare for all beings who excel the wish fulfilling gem I shall constantly hold them dear."
2. "When accompanying anyone I shall view myself as the lowest of all and from the depths of my heart shall hold others as supreme."
3. "Examining my mind throughout all activities as soon as a defilement that endangers myself and others arises, by facing it I will turn it away."
4. "When I meet a naturally base and sinful being driven by intense suffering and downfalls I will train in cherishing this one, so hard to find, as though discovering a wish fulfilling gem."