Transforming Kaka into Gold

Additional Resources

Suggested Reading

Note: The books with links are available from the FPMT Foundation Store website. 

Translations of and Commentaries to Geshe Chekawa's "Seven Points of Thought Transformation"

• The Seven-Point Thought Transformation, by Geshe Chekawa (FPMT)
• Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun, by Nam-Kha Pel (Paljor Publications)
• Advice from a Spiritual Friend, by Geshe Rabten Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey. Stephen Batchelor, Brian Beresford (Wisdom Publications)
• Seven Steps to Train Your Mind, by Gomo Tulku (Wisdom Publications)
• Seven Points for Training the Mind, by Geshe Sonam Rinchen (Library of Tibetan Works and Archives)
• The Seven-Point Mind Training: A Tibetan Method for Cultivating Mind and Heart, by B. Alan Wallace (Shambala Publications)
• Buddhism with an Attitude: The Tibetan Seven-Point Mind Training, by B. Alan Wallace (Shambala Publications)
  

Tonglen

• How to Meditate, by Kathleen McDonald (contains instructions for doing the tonglen practice)

Other Lojong Books 

• Transforming Problems into Happiness, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche (Wisdom Publications)
• The Door to Satisfaction, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche (Wisdom Publications)
• Essential Mind Training, translated by Geshe Thubten Jinpa (Wisdom Publications) (an excerpt from Mind Training: The Great Collection below)

Collections of Lojong Texts Composed by Tibetan Masters of the Past

• Mind Training: The Great Collection, translated by Geshe Thubten Jinpa (Wisdom Publications)
• Wisdom of the Kadam Masters, translated by Geshe Thubten Jinpa (Wisdom Publications)

FPMT Online Programs on Related Topics

Discovering Buddhism

● Module 11: Transforming Problems

● Module 10: How to Develop Bodhichitta

Living in the Path

● How to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness: a short practice text with commentary by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to help generate a bodhichitta motivation at the beginning of the day (free of charge)

● Bodhichitta Mindfulness: ways to generate bodhichitta while doing ordinary daily activities such as bathing, dressing, washing dishes, etc.  (free of charge)