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Recorded in 1993 at the Kagyu E-Vam Buddhist Institute in Melbourne, Australia.Seven Point Mind Training  is revered throughout Tibet as containing the very essence of the great Mahayana Buddhist teachings, helpfully organized into seven easily understood groups.  Further, these teachings are distilled and presented in their absolutely essential core: practice these, and you practice all.  These teachings, in and of themselves, are said to be able to lead one to enlightenment, or what the Tibetans also call the Great Liberation, a liberation from suffering and an awakening to ultimate reality itself.  Lojong contains practices that are said to do exactly that because they are grounded in and evoke “bodhicitta”: the mind and heart of enlightenment.Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche is President and Spiritual Director of Kagyu E-Vam Buddhist Institute in Melbourne and E-Vam Institute in the Upstate New York. Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche was born in 1955 in Nangchen, Eastern Tibet. He was enthroned as the Supreme Abbott of Thrangu Monastery at age two by His Holiness Gyalwa Karmapa.In 1980, at twenty-five years of age, Rinpoche arrived in Australia and established Kagyu E-Vam Buddhist Institute two years later. Rinpoche was also the spiritual head of Kamalashila Institute, one of the main Kagyu centers in Europe, for five years. Traleg Rinpoche was recognized as the ninth incarnation of the Traleg line by His Holiness the XVI Gyalwa Karmapa and was accorded the title Kyabgon, a significant distinction retained by only a few lineage holders of the Tibetan tradition.The Traleg line is one of the most important Kagyu tulku lineages in Tibet. It is traced back to the time of Saltong Shogam, one of the Three Men of Kham who were among the five closest students to Gampopa and the only students to receive the complete transmission of both Vajrayana and Mahamudra instructions from him.Rinpoche regularly gives lectures and seminars world-wide on Buddhism and related topics, and has become well-known for his erudition, fluency in English and background in western psychology and comparative religion. Rinpoche has both a strict traditional Buddhist education and a comprehensive Western education, holding a degree from La Trobe University and is currently engaged in academic research for a Doctoral dissertation.