Talking about heart-warming love and compassion and teaching on attachment to inherently existent things and their characteristics and on two extreme views.
The Middle Way view
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Interrelationship of the lamrim topics
Teaching from Chapter 6 of the book “The Foundation of Buddhist Practice”, covering the interrelationship of the Lamrim topics.
Letting go of identities
Exploring how meditation on emptiness and bodhicitta provides a way to let go of our biases, prejudices, and restrictive self-identities.
Ultimate and conventional truths
Exploring ultimate and conventional truths and teaching on how to avoid the two extremes of absolutism and nihilism.
Four truths and three levels of practitioners
Continuing Chapter 8 “A Systematic Approach,” covering the sections “The Four Truths and Three Levels of Practitioners” and “More Than One Approach.”
Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 7-8
Continuing the commentary on verses 7 and 8 of the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation by Geshe Langri Tangpa in Chapter 6
The four seals of Buddhism: The second, third and fourth seals
Explanation of the last three of the four seals and how contemplating them results in a change of perspective.
Practical ethics: Part 2
Explanation of Nagarjuna’s twenty-verse prayer to do daily.
Practical ethics: Part 1
A reading and commentary from the book “Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.”
The possibility of ending duhkha
Covering the sections “Dependent Arising and the Three Jewels” and “The Possibility of Ending Duhkha.”