Eight excellent qualities of the dharma jewel
07 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps 
Jun 7, 2024 Part of an ongoing series of teachings based on the book Following in the Buddha's Footsteps, the fourth volume in The Library of Wisdom and Compassion series by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron.
- True cessations and true paths
- Three ways true cessation are inconceivable
- Free from portions of afflictions and polluted karma
- Free from all conceptualizations grasping true existence
- Not mixed with any obscurations
- Free from bias embedded in attachment, anger and confusion
- Able to counteract some portion of afflictions
- Explanation of Ultimate truth and conventional truth
07 Eight Excellent Qualities of the Dharma Jewel (download)
Contemplation points
- Spend some time with each of the eight qualities of the Dharma Jewel (inconceivable, being without the two, being without conceptualization, purity, clarity, antidotal class, true cessations, and true paths. Which are ultimate truths and which are conventional truths?
- How do these qualities relate to our spiritual practice? How do we apply them to our lives?
- Make some examples of how you believe things in your life exist inherently. What problems arise when we think things have a nature from their own side as they appear to us?
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.
