46. Don’t allow three things to diminish

• This is the Eighth Slogan/Instruction of Point Seven, which consists of twenty-one instructions.
• Point Seven is “Guidelines for Mind Training”

According to Traleg Kyabgon in The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, the three things are: 2) Interested Humility Toward the Kalyanamitra (“Spiritual Friend”); 2) Joy in Our Practice; and 3) Commitment to the Path.

Iconographic Drawing of Tantric Enlightened Beings (verso), c. 1500. Tibet. Ink and watercolor on cotton; overall: 20.3 x 12.7 cm (8 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art