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Discussion: Mind-only school
A discussion session regarding uncompounded space, objects as reflections of mind, and cause and effect…
View PostGenerating bodhicitta
Equalizing and exchanging self and others and the seven-fold cause and effect relationship.
View PostVerse 21-1: On meeting others
Seeing the buddha potential in others transforms how we feel about them.
View PostEmptiness and bodhicitta
The benefits of generating bodhicitta and how emptiness and bodhicitta can support one another.
View PostRefuge in the Three Jewels
What it means to take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
View PostVerse 20-3: Creating the causes
A meditation practice of reasoning with the angry mind to drop the anger. Considering that…
View PostEmptiness 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…
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