{"id":574,"date":"2022-08-20T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/?p=574"},"modified":"2022-10-03T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:21:07","slug":"eight-verses-for-training-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/20\/eight-verses-for-training-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Verses for Training the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/36.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-575\" width=\"183\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/36.jpg 286w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/36-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Eight Verses for Training the Mind<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do we free ourselves from the demon of self-concern? These instructions are found in Eight Verses for Training the Mind, one of the most important texts from a genre of Tibetan spiritual writings known as lojong (literally &#8220;mind training&#8221;). The root text was written by the eleventh-century meditator Langritangpa. His Holiness the Dalai Lama refers to this work as one of the main sources of his own inspiration and includes it in his daily meditations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Published By Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Verses for Training the Mind How do we free ourselves from the demon of self-concern? These instructions are found in Eight Verses for Training the Mind, one of the most important texts from a genre of Tibetan spiritual writings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}