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Emptiness in everyday life
How ignorance, conceptualizations, afflictions and karma are linked and how to practice the understanding of…
View PostVerse 20-2: The lower realms
A description of the lower realms, and whether they are actual places or just states…
View PostMeditation on our precious human life
The benefits of meditating on the eight freedoms we have been given with our precious…
View PostMeditation on emptiness
The preciousness of study and meditation on emptiness and the gap between the objective reality…
View PostVerse 20-1: Going downhill
The importance of preventing sentient beings, and ourselves, from being born in the lower realms.
View PostMental states and objects of knowledge
The Chittamatra explanation of mind-basis-of-all, objects of knowledge according to Prasangika, and partless particles according…
View Post108 Verses: Verses 17-21
How, based on compassion, we can make wise decisions and enhance our trust in Dharma.
View PostLineage of mind training practices
Kevin Conlin discusses the "Eight Verses of Thought Transformation" and tonglen meditation
View Post108 Verses: Verses 15-17
How great compassion is the most importance quality of the Buddha that makes his teachings…
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