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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