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The benefits of precepts
What is important in our lives? Happiness is getting our lives together to pacify our…
View PostIntroducing Exploring Monastic Life 2008
Opening the 2008 Exploring Monastic Life program with an introduction and advice on how to…
View PostDependent arising and emptiness
Investigating ultimate and conventional truth through the teachings on dependent arising and emptiness.
View PostRefuting inherently existent phenomena
Using the "diamond slivers" reasoning to refute the inherent production of phenomena.
View PostVerse 14-3: Three higher trainings
Gradual progression of subduing of the afflictions and the counteracting of the karma through the…
View PostVerse 14-2: What samsara is
The samsara we're in is this very body and mind, not the external world.
View PostRefuting the inherent self
Using reasoning to refute the inherent existence of the self and all phenomena.
View PostVerse 14-1: The prison of cyclic existence
Determination to be free, aspiration for enlightenment to benefit sentient beings and liberate them, wisdom…
View PostVerse 13: The nourishment of samadhi
Deep samadhi nourishes the mind and body enabling great meditators to spend more time meditating…
View PostVerse 12: The nectar of wisdom
The different kinds of wisdom as we progress along the path. The analogies of wisdom…
View PostVerse 11: The fire of wisdom
An explanation of the analogy of wisdom with fire, a fire that eradicates the afflictions…
View PostVerse 10-3: Meditating on emptiness
The various levels of subduing the afflictions, from avoiding the object, to developing samadhi, and…
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