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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 21-3: Buddha nature

How buddha nature is described as the emptiness of the mind, and what that means.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Benefits of cultivating bodhicitta

Combining the two techniques for cultivating bodhicitta and the benefits of cultivating bodhicitta.

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 21-2: Seeing the buddha in others

Seeing sentient beings as buddhas, a way to control our negative mind but not taking…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Discussion: Mind-only school

A discussion session regarding uncompounded space, objects as reflections of mind, and cause and effect…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Generating bodhicitta

Equalizing and exchanging self and others and the seven-fold cause and effect relationship.

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Emptiness and bodhicitta

The benefits of generating bodhicitta and how emptiness and bodhicitta can support one another.

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 20-3: Creating the causes

A meditation practice of reasoning with the angry mind to drop the anger. Considering that…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Emptiness in everyday life

How ignorance, conceptualizations, afflictions and karma are linked and how to practice the understanding of…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 20-2: The lower realms

A description of the lower realms, and whether they are actual places or just states…

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