Stages of the Path: Four Noble Truths (2009)
Short talks on the four truths for aryas based on the Guru Puja text by the first Panchen Lama Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen.
Higher training in ethics
Venerable Thubten Chodron How ethical discipline is the foundation on which concentration and wisdom are built. Taking precepts helps us to regulate our verbal and physical actions.
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Six perfections and three higher trainings
What makes the three higher trainings higher--rather than just ordinary--is the long-term motivation of attaining liberation.
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Mindfulness and introspective awareness
The importance of mindfulness and introspective awareness in our everyday lives.
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Mindfulness for ethics, concentration, and wisdom
The importance of mindfulness in all three of the higher trainings, with an emphasis on the higher training in concentration.
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Ethics and precepts
The importance of taking precepts and a reminder that precepts are voluntarily taken and are trainings, not fixed and rigid rules imposed on us.
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The pratimoksha vows
The various types of individual liberation vows and clarifying some confusion about the meaning and purpose of taking vows.
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Concentration, jhanas, and samadhi
The importance of suppressing the five hindrances in order to attain the jhanas.
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Hindrances to concentration: Desire and ill will
The first two of the five hindrances to concentration. How sensual desire and malice/ill will are related and the various antidotes to these hindrances.
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Hindrances to concentration: Dullness
The third of the five hindrances. Dullness and drowsiness and the antidotes to these hindrances.
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Hindrances to concentration: Dullness and drows...
A continuation of the third of the five hindrance, dullness and drowsiness, and how to counteract them.
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Hindrances to concentration: Restlessness
Part one of two talks on the fourth of the five hindrances, restlessness and remorse, focusing on restlessness and the ways to counteract it.
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Hindrances to concentration: Remorse
Part two of two talks on the fourth of the five hindrances, restlessness and remorse, focusing on remorse and the ways to counteract it.
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