How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Extensive teachings on How to See Yourself As You Really Are by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

My religion is kindness

Starting with a summary of His Holiness' perspective on universal spiritual values. Identifying our counterproductive…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

The need for insight

Examples of how we actively misapprehend reality and the problems it brings.

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Discovering the source of problems

How the mind reifies objects, creating false appearances, causing afflictions to arise.

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Apprehending objects and the impact of interrelatedness

Explaining the three ways of seeing objects. Showing how impermanent phenomena depend on each other…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Dependent arising and realism

Teaching the method side of the path, reflecting on how we are completely dependent on…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Emptiness does not mean nothingness

A teaching on the difference between conventional and ultimate analysis of objects in order to…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Seeing the interdependence of phenomena

Understanding phenomena are empty of inherent existence because they are dependent arising. Avoid notion of…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Dependent arising and emptiness

An understanding of cause and effect is necessary for and compatible with the realization of…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Causes and conditions for enlightenment

Understanding emptiness in the context of the entire Buddhist path, with the wish to attain…

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