Part of a series of talks on Lama Tsongkhapa’s Three Principal Aspects of the Path given in various locations around the United States from 2002-2007. This talk was given in Boise, Idaho.
How things exist
- Nihilism and absolutism
- Because things are empty therefore they exist
- Because things exist therefore they are empty
- Things are not empty of existence they are empty of inherent existence
- Permanence and impermanence
- Ultimate wisdom
17a Three Principal Aspects of the Path 2003 (download)
Inherent existence and dependent arising
- Merely labeled “I”
- Inherent existence
- Agent, action, and object are dependent on one another
- There can be no compassion if things were inherently existent
- Dependent arising
- The correct view
- The Buddha mind
- Three ways of apprehending things
17b Three Principal Aspects of the Path 2003 (download)
