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Wishing all sentient beings to be free from suffering and its causes.
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Subtle impermanence
Answering questions from retreat participants and teaching on understanding impermanence and generating love and compassion
Compassion as cause of bodhisattvas
Continuing teachings on “Illumination of the Thought” and explaining how great compassion is the root of hearers, solitary realizers, buddhas and bodhisattvas
Hearers and solitary realizers
Teaching on Lama Tsongkhapa’s “Illumination of the Thought” and explaining how hearers and solitary realizers are born from Buddhas.
The three types of compassion
Teaching on Lama Tsongkhapa’s “Illumination of the Thought” and explaining compassion observing sentient beings, the first kind of great compassion.
Objects of great compassion
Explaining compassion observing phenomena and compassion observing the emptiness of sentient beings, the second and third kinds of great compassion