How to See Yourself As You Really Are (2012-20)
Teachings on How to See Yourself as You Really Are. by His Holiness the Dalai Lama given at Sravasti Abbey.
Root Text
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Developing calm abiding
How keeping precepts helps one's meditation practice and helps in living a happier life.
View PostHaving a flexible mind
The importance of setting a good motivation, seeing the value of our precious human life, and a review of the past teachings on the text.
View PostConditions for practice
A description of the obstacles to meditation, how to have good meditation posture, and the objects of meditation.
View PostMindfulness and antidotes to hindrances
How reflecting on the kindness of others motivates our spiritual practice and sets the context for the cultivation of serenity.
View PostSerenity meditation and the four essential points
The remedies to laxity and excitement, and the nine stages of meditative stabilization.
View PostAppreciating our opportunities
A motivation on appreciating all the causes and conditions for our precious human rebirth, and how that affects our understanding of who we are.
View PostKarma and emptiness
An overview of why we would want to learn about emptiness and teaches on the emptiness of persons and phenomena.
View PostEmptiness and compassion
Analyzing whether the person is one or different from the aggregates.
View PostRefuting inherent existence
Analyzing whether the person is one with the aggregates, and how we have difficulty seeing conventional reality for what it is.
View PostChallenging self view
The various reasonings refuting that the person exists inherently in or separate from the aggregates.
View PostExistence of the “I”
Reviewing the four-point analysis of the emptiness of the self and teaching on coarse and subtle selflessness.
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