Bringing happiness and unhappiness onto the path
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Bringing happiness and unhappiness onto the path (T. skyid sdug lam khyer སྐྱིད་སྡུག་ལམ་ཁྱེར་), a.k.a. "Turning Suffering and Happiness into Enlightenment". A treatise on mind-training (lojong) by Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima
This text emphasizes that whatever comes to us in life, be it happiness or suffering, we can use our circumstances for our ultimate benefit and the benefit of others.
Explanation of the title
- kyi (སྐྱིད་) means ‘happiness’
- duk (སྡུག་) means ‘suffering’
- lam (ལམ་) means ‘path’
- khyer (ཁྱེར་) means ‘to carry’ or ‘to take’.
English translations
Transforming Suffering and Happiness into Enlightenment, Lotsawa House- Jig-med Ten-Pa'i Nyi-Ma The Third Dodrup Chen Rinpoche, Instructions on Turning Happiness and Suffering into the Path to Enlightenment (Marion: Buddhayana, 1979)
Commentaries
- Zopa Rinpoche, Lama, Transforming Problems into Happiness (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2011)
- Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Meeting Challenges: Unshaken by Life's Ups and Downs (Bodhicharya Publications, 2018)