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Venerable Thubten Chodron Realizing selflessness
Continuing the section on insight and explaining how realizing selflessness cuts the root of samsara.
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Practice syllogisms
Leading the class in analyzing practice syllogisms written by students.
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Christina Manriquez - Feb 23, 2018
Christina Manriquez The future is up to us
A participant in Sravasti Abbey's recent "Living Vinaya in the West" course considers how the…
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Sravasti Abbey hosts “Living Vinaya in the Wes...
A historic event at Sravasti Abbey: 49 nuns gather to learn and live the Vinaya…
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Identifying afflictive ignorance
Beginning the section on insight and covering the two kinds of grasping at self (persons…
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The Buddhist enthymeme
Reviewing “Unpacking the Buddhist Enthymeme” in Chapter 6 and examining real-life syllogisms sent in by…
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Attaining serenity
Teaching on flawed methods of meditating, the five faults, the six powers, the four types…
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Epistemological requirements
Finishing the section on counterpervasion in Chapter 6 and moves onto Components of a Syllogism…
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Concentration, wisdom, and spiritual teachers
Explaining the last three verses of wisdom from the Kadam masters, which focus on concentration,…
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Serenity and insight
Review of meditative stability and developing serenity (samatha) and insight (vipashyana).
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Venerable Master Wuyin Transmitting the lamp of the Dharma
Encouraging all Buddhists to work together to transmit the lamp of the Dharma from one…
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The mutual relationship of monastics and lay practit...
Through mutual support the monastic and lay community grow in the Dharma. For the Dharma…
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