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A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun – His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

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A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun is an unpublished transcript by Namkapel of teachings given by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to an audience with many new arrivals from Tibet in Dharamsala, India, May 9–15, 1985. The text here has been translated by Alexander Berzin. These teachings are mostly concerned with developing the awakening mind, the altruistic mind of enlightenment. They deal essentially with transforming mental attitudes. One special feature of the mind training teachings is the advice to transform adversity into advantage. So, not only do these instructions help open out towards other beings, but they also help transform whatever difficulties come our way into something valuable. Read more