An expanded commentary on Dharmarakshita’s The Wheel of Sharp Weapons given at Sravasti Abbey from 2004-2006.
- Venerable Thubten Chodron’s connection with the text
- Background teaching on samsara, liberation, and karma
- The importance of some understanding of what cyclic existence is
- Grasping at the “I”
- The 12 links and cyclic existence
- How the mind creates suffering
- Living in the here and now: the eight worldly concerns
- Dharma mind versus non-Dharma mind
Wheel of Sharp Weapons (expanded): Introduction (download)