Coaching practices for Tibetan Buddhist Slogans
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Tibetan Buddhist Slogans, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve started catching a smugness in myself
- I’m kind and openhearted with the people I already love and quietly closed off to the ones who get under my skin, and I’m realizing that warmth that only flows toward easy people isn’t really the practice
- My whole instinct is to push pain away and grab at anything that feels good, and I’m tired of how walled-off that makes me
- I don’t want to just believe a teaching on faith and call it done
- There’s something charged sitting on the tip of my tongue and I keep blurting things in the heat of the moment that I regret
Practices that may help
- Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training
Lojong is a Tibetan Buddhist mind-training system, codified by Atisha and later Chekawa, built around 59 slogans that train the mind to transform adversity into awakening and to cultivate compassion for all beings including oneself. Evidence is primarily contemplative-clinical; some practices (loving-kindness, tonglen-adjacent exercises) have been studied, but the full system is practitioner tradition rather than a clinical protocol. - Don’t make gods into demons
Don’t let spiritual practice become a source of pride, judgment, or superiority over others.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - Always abide by the three principles
Maintain your vow, don’t show off, and practise impartially with everyone — not just the people you like.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - Tonglen: sending and taking
Breathe in suffering (yours and others’); breathe out relief and well-being.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - Fourth noble truth — committing to the path as a practice, not a belief
The fourth noble truth is the prescription: engage the Eightfold Path as an active investigation, not as a doctrine to subscribe to.
The Four Noble Truths as a Practical Framework - Right speech — four practical tests for what to say
Before speaking in a difficult situation, run the statement through: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Is it the right time?
The Noble Eightfold Path as a Practical Life Framework - Train with the two truths throughout all activities
Hold both relative reality (things matter) and ultimate reality (things are empty of fixed essence) simultaneously.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - First noble truth — recognising dukkha honestly
Acknowledge suffering as it actually is — without dramatising it or spiritual-bypassing it.
The Four Noble Truths as a Practical Framework - Third noble truth — establishing that cessation is actually possible
Hold the fact of cessation as a genuine empirical hypothesis, not just a hope.
The Four Noble Truths as a Practical Framework - Use flash tonglen in the moment of encountering suffering
A single in-breath of someone’s pain and an out-breath of goodwill is a complete act of tonglen.
Tonglen: The Tibetan Practice of Taking and Sending
Related concerns
- Buddhist Communication Practice
Before speaking in a difficult situation, run the statement through: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Is it the right time?
Right speech — four practical tests for what to say
- Lojong Three Principles
Lojong is a Tibetan Buddhist mind-training system, codified by Atisha and later Chekawa, built around 59 slogans that train the mind to transform adversity into awakening and to cultivate compassion for all beings including oneself. Evidence is primarily contemplative-clinical; some practices (loving-kindness, tonglen-adjacent exercises) have been studied, but the full system is practitioner tradition rather than a clinical protocol.
- Right Livelihood Buddhism
Ask whether your livelihood causes harm to yourself or others — and where friction between your values and your work lives.
Right livelihood — ethical audit of how you earn and spend your time
- Right Speech Buddhism
Before speaking in a difficult situation, run the statement through: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Is it the right time?
- Two Truths Buddhism
Hold both relative reality (things matter) and ultimate reality (things are empty of fixed essence) simultaneously.
Train with the two truths throughout all activities
- First Noble Truth Practice
The fourth noble truth is the prescription: engage the Eightfold Path as an active investigation, not as a doctrine to subscribe to.
Fourth noble truth — committing to the path as a practice, not a belief
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