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Lamrim: the Gradual Path to Enlightenment

4.B.2.C.3.b. 2. Training in Special Insight to Perfect the Wisdom of Emptiness [Teachings]


  1. Establishing the selflessness of persons
    1. Meditating on emptiness which is like space in sessions
      1. Recognizing the object to be negated (refuted)
      2. Argument conclusively refutes what is to be refuted
      3. The I cannot exist singly or be the same as its parts
      4. The I cannot exist as many or separate from its parts
    2. In break times, contemplate things being like an illusion

  2. Establishing the selflessness of all phenomena
    1. Being convinced that no functional phenomena truly exists
      1. Form doesn't truly (inherently) exist
      2. Consciousness doesn't truly exist
      3. Non-associated compounded phenomena don't truly exist
    2. Being convinced that no permanent phenomena truly exists

  3. The way to develop actual special insight

(The eight-fold noble path is often taught at this point.)

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