Sep 22, 2008
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Verse 19-3: Bodhisattva practices
The importance of aiming for a precious human life, even if that's not our long-term…
View PostMeditation practice
An explanation of the various kinds of Buddhist meditation, how to set up a daily…
View PostVerse 19-2: Precious human life
Not every human life is a precious human life. Considering living beings who are so…
View PostVerse 19-1: The upper realms
How a precious human life gives us just enough comfort and just enough suffering to…
View PostPersons, perceptions, and mental factors
The definition of "person" according to different tenet systems, and a discussion of perception, divisions…
View PostVerse 18: The exalted path
Generating positive aspirations for all sentient beings when setting out walking on a path.
View PostSingle and different
The Sautrantika school's view of the nature of reality and the value of learning the…
View PostVerse 17-5: Value of keeping precepts
Fourth way of gathering followers in order to teach them the Dharma: to act in…
View PostBenefits of mind training
Self-centeredness is the root of all problems and conflicts. It is our true enemy, not…
View PostVerse 17-4: Gathering disciples
Teaching the third way to gather followers: encouraging people along the path.
View PostEmptiness and impermanence
A discussion about hidden and evident phenomena, emptiness and impermanence, and terms used in emptiness…
View PostSutra school: Phenomena and cognition
Manifest and hidden phenomena, prime and subsequent cognition, and the three times according to the…
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