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Excellent qualities of the dharma and sangha
Explaining the qualities of the dharma jewel and sangha jewel and the precepts to follow…
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What is meditation?
Teaching on how meditation in a Tibetan Buddhist perspective gives tools, methods, ways, and paths…
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Refuge and the excellent qualities of the Buddha
Explaining how the three jewels are worthy objects of refuge, teaching from Chapter 9.
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Contemplating the lower realms
Explaining the suffering of hell beings, animals and hungry ghosts, continuing the teaching from Chapter…
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Only dharma will benefit at death
Describing the last 3 points of the nine-point death meditation, teaching from Chapter 8.
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Death is definite but time is uncertain
Explaining the first six points of the nine-point death meditation, teaching from Chapter 8.
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Mindfulness of death, faults and benefits
Completing Chapter 7, explaining the purpose of the gradual training and commencing Chapter 8, covering…
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Three types of persons
Explaining the three levels of practitioners and the reasons for the gradual stages, teaching from…
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The eight worldly concerns
Examining our attachment and aversion in the eight worldly concerns.
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Awareness of our buddha nature eliminates hindrances
Concluding teaching from the text, "Samsara, Nirvana and Buddha Nature", covering the topic are we…
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Great value and rarity of a precious rebirth
Explaining the great value and the difficulty in having a precious human birth, teaching from…
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How to create harmony
6 harmonies we can embrace to live peacefully with others in any community.
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