Lojong Meditation

A fundamental premise of Tibetan mind training, or lojong, is to take whatever suffering and adversity you experience into your spiritual practice and use it to help you grow and develop. If you are in a car accident and your car was totaled, rather than focusing on the loss of your car, you can be grateful that you were not harmed. If you experience a financial crisis, or even bankruptcy, you can see the experience as an opportunity to empathize with others who are going through similar hardship and to expand your capacity for empathy and compassion. I learned this practice from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama through his book, The Book of Joy.