Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verse 104-Conclusion
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Wheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat 2004 
Sep 19, 2004 Teachings on Dharmaraksita’s The Wheel-Weapon Mind Training at the Fall 2004 Manjushri Retreat at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center, September 10-19, 2004.
Verse 104 (continued)
- Things exist dependent on causes and conditions
- Appear one way and exist in another way
- Example of chocolate cake
- Appearance of ring of light
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Verses 105-107
- Life force has no inner core
- Realise emptiness
- How can there be a wheel of karma?
- Negative thoughts exist by merely labelled, they do not exist from their own side
- How karma can be empty and still exist
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Verses 108-111
- Hell realms and other lower realms
- Ignorance and afflictions
- Melody arise from notes, notes also arise dependently
- Cause and effect
- We experience joy and pain even though they are empty of inherent existence
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Verses 112-113
- Result of happiness is not caused by one moment, it is dependent on many conditions
- Accumulation of karma
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Verses 114-117, colophon, and conclusion
- Meditative equipoise
- Afflictive and cognitive obscurations
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Venerable Thubten Chodron
Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.
