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The precepts for aspiring and engaging bodhicitta
The precepts for aspiring bodhicitta and beginning the explanation of the bodhisattva ethical restraints.
View PostAttributes of true paths: Accomplishment and irrever...
The last two attributes of true paths and encouragement to meditate on all 16 attributes.
View PostChapter 5: Verses 471-475
All the beneficial things that we can dedicate and wish for all sentient beings.
View PostAttributes of true paths: Path and suitable
Why it's important to know that there is a path to liberation and that it…
View PostAttributes of true cessations: Magnificent and Freedom
Why nirvana is magnificent and definite emergence from cyclic existence.
View PostAspiring bodhicitta
Finishing the teaching on the taking-and-giving meditation and continuing with the precepts of aspiring bodhicitta.
View PostAttributes of true cessations: Cessation and peace
Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches on the first two attributes of true cessations.
View PostChapter 5: Verses 468-470
Understanding how to meditate on the seven-limb prayer in the "Twenty-Verse Prayer."
View PostTwenty-Verse Prayer from Nagarjuna’s “Precious...
Twenty verses that Nagarjuna encourages us to recite three times a day to accumulate the…
View PostGiving to all sentient beings
How to give to all sentient beings and holy beings as in the taking-and-giving meditation.
View PostAttributes of true origins: Conditions
How craving and karma function as conditions that create suffering in cyclic existence as well.
View PostNo small thing: Encouragement from China
The Abbey celebrates the arrival of 32 volumes of the annotated edition of the Nanshan…
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