Nov 16, 2018

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Cultivating love and compassion

Continuing to read from “Working with Afflictions” in Chapter 3 and covers “Cultivating Love and…

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Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

Why does this get to me?

Reflecting on why we are triggered when someone is overwhelmed by negative energy or intense…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

A graded range of consciousnesses

Covering the first two consciousnesses: wrong consciousness and uncertain consciousness learning toward believing something that…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Becoming friends with ourselves

Becoming our own friend means treating ourselves with kindness, respect and compassion; celebrating our successes…

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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

Virtuous and variable mental factors & the affli...

Finishing teaching the virtuous mental factors, and then covering the root afflictions, auxiliary afflictions, and…

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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

The body and mind

The various aspects that compose the body and mind: the twelve sources and eighteen constituents,…

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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

Classification of phenomena

A discussion about meditation and syllogisms, and begins Chapter 3 outlining the Buddhist classification of…

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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

Reliable cognizers and meditation

The relationship between our thinking patterns and types of cognizers, and how inferential reliable cognizers…

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