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Seven-limb Prayer
Purifying and creating positive potential prepare our minds to grow in wisdom and understanding.
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The purity of emptiness
Explaining the emptiness of afflictive mind and the emptiness of purified mind, reviewing the section,…
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Yogis and common people
The different understandings of the two truths possessed by those who have direct perception of…
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Cultivating excellent qualities
Describing the three factors that make the cultivation of excellent qualities, reviewing the sections, "Excellent…
View PostFriends who give bad advice
How habitual disturbing emotions are like friends giving bad advice.
View PostMeditation on compassion
Guided meditation on developing compassion in a wise and skillful way.
View PostThe potential for liberation
Explaining the obscurations to the mind and factors for liberation, reviewing the sections, "The Mind's…
View PostUsing the subtlest clear light mind on the path
Explaining how tantra manifests the subtlest mind-wind and uses it to accumulate merit and wisdom…
View PostEnough childish behavior!
Shantideva on giving up childish behavior and following in the steps of the wise
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