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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the author warn that meditation can become when meditation practitioners do not pay attention to their negative emotions?
(a) Hurtful.
(b) Selfish.
(c) Repression.
(d) Wasted time.

2. What helps teach us the four qualities of maitri?
(a) Lessons from our past experience.
(b) Anger.
(c) Sitting meditation.
(d) Hurt.

3. What is Maitri?
(a) A Tibetan term for hope.
(b) Acceptance of ourselves.
(c) Full relaxation.
(d) Deep breath.

4. How many stages are in the formal practice of tonglen?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

5. How does Chondron describe our "fundamental energy"?
(a) As "tender, wholesome and fresh."
(b) As "loving and generous at its very core."
(c) As "essentially good."
(d) As "unpredictable, like a leaf on the wind."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final step of the formal practice of maitri?

2. What does the yogi Patrul Rinpche suggest we do to arouse compassion?

3. What insight did the woman give whom the author mentions is constantly on a diet?

4. What is the fifth step in the formal practice of maitri?

5. What are the lojong teachings for?

(see the answer key)

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