Lojong - Make your own Lojong cards + study [Online]

This course deepens our study of the teachings on the Lojong, Atisha’s famous mind-training slogans. 

Students create their own Lojong study cards, similar to those used in daily practice at Gampo Abbey, using available materials - card stock or similar cut into 4 by 6 - or even index cards - with the name of the slogan on the front, and notes from your current studies of those slogans and what comes up during practices on the back. We’ll take a deep dive into some of the most pithy slogans for daily life.

Each class has a dharma talk on the week’s slogans, meditation, contemplation, and group discussion. 

Atisha’s slogans invite us to utilize the difficulties and problems we encounter to deepen our path. Rather than seeing the unwanted aspects of life as obstacles, they can be viewed as the raw material necessary for awakening genuine uncontrived compassion, for ourselves and others.

This is the fifth, and final, module in a year of Mahayana studies hosted by Seattle Shambhala Center’s teachers on Zoom. 

Throughout 2025 we’ll cover 5 modules, each are posted and registered for separately but you are encouraged to attend all if possible. 

Module 1 - Maitri & The Four Immeasurables

Module 2 - Relative Bodhicitta & the Paramitas

Module 3 - Emptiness & Absolute Bodhicitta

Module 4 -  Lojong & Compassionate Engagement

Module 5 - Lojong - Make your own Lojong cards + study

About the Teacher:

Meli-Tashi Happy: Meditation Instructor and End-of-Life Coordinator for Seattle Shambhala Center. Meditating since 1997, starting in the Zen tradition, joining the Shambhala community in 2007. She’s taken Refuge Vows, Bodhisattva Vows, and is a Vajrayana.

If you have any questions please reach out to Meli-Tashi Happy [email protected]