Gomchen Lamrim

Commentary on The Essence of All Eloquent Speech by the great meditator Ngawang Drakpa of Dagpo.

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Nine stages of sustained attention

Teaching on Maitreya's nine stages of sustained attention, including the six powers and four types…

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From serenity to the jhanas

Explaining how to progress from serenity to the jhanas, and describing the first four of…

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Serenity and insight

Review of meditative stability and developing serenity (samatha) and insight (vipashyana).

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Attaining serenity

Teaching on flawed methods of meditating, the five faults, the six powers, the four types…

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Identifying afflictive ignorance

Beginning the section on insight and covering the two kinds of grasping at self (persons…

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Realizing selflessness

Continuing the section on insight and explaining how realizing selflessness cuts the root of samsara.

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Identifying the person

Teaching on how to identify the conventionally existent person and challenge its appearance of being…

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Identifying inherent existence

Covering the section “Establishing the lack of an intrinsic nature of 'mine'” and explores how…

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Illusion-like appearances

Covering three sections on the illusion-like appearance of conventional reality experienced after meditative equipoise on…

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Dependent arising

Sharing a newly written prayer to Kwan Yin and teaching on the relationship between emptiness…

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The correct view

Continuation of the commentary on verses from Je Rinpoche's "Three Principle Aspects of the Path,"…

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Review of serenity

Venerable Thubten Tarpa reviews the teachings on serenity, focusing on what to take as your…

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