THE NEXT TWO texts address the mind training practice of taking adversities and afflictions into the path to awakening.
A Teaching on Taking Afflictions onto the Path presents the instruction of taking upon oneself all the afflictions, such as attachment and aversion, of other sentient beings and on this basis engaging in the cultivation of the two awakening minds, conventional and ultimate. We have no information about the author of this short text, nor do we have any knowledge of the transmission lineage of this particular instruction.
Mind Training Taking Joys and Pains onto the Path is a text, as the colophon of the text itself states, based on a well-known single-verse mind training composed by the Kashmiri pandit Śākyaśrībhadra (1127–1225). This Kashmiri master came to Tibet at the beginning of the thirteenth century and, among other things, became a teacher of Sakya Paṇḍita. This fascinating short text on mind training employs the well-known Vajrayana meditation of taking death, intermediate state, and rebirth onto the path as the three buddha bodies. The text provides an instruction on how to apply this three-buddha-bodies meditation for the specifically mind training objective of taking everyday experience as a spiritual path.