Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness Retreat (New York 2017 & 2019)

Teachings based on Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness: A Commentary on Nagarjuna's "Precious Garland" given at the Garrison Institute

Cover of book Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.

The causes and effects of higher rebirth

A series of good rebirths that allow Dharma practice is necessary to attain awakening. Nagarjuna identifies the practices that lead to upper rebirth.

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Cover of book Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.

The advantages of living ethically

Ethical conduct is primary cause of higher rebirth. Developing ethical conduct involves abandoning thirteen activities and engaging in three practices.

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Cover of book Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.

The results of virtue and nonvirtue

In order to create the causes for upper rebirth and awakening it's important to discern what is an unmistaken path and what are wrong paths.

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Cover of book Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.

How things appear and how they exist

The way things appear to us is not the way they exist. To attain liberation and awakening the wisdom realizing how things and persons really…

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The importance of ethical conduct

Emphasizing the importance of ethical conduct to secure a precious human rebirth, and explaining the meaning of virtuous and nonvirtuous actions.

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Creating the causes for happiness

Teaching on creating the causes for happiness, disadvantages of self-centered thought, and dependent arising.

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Ultimate and conventional truths

Exploring ultimate and conventional truths and teaching on how to avoid the two extremes of absolutism and nihilism.

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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.

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