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Geshe Dorji Damdul Discussion: Mind-only school
A discussion session regarding uncompounded space, objects as reflections of mind, and cause and effect…
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Generating bodhicitta
Equalizing and exchanging self and others and the seven-fold cause and effect relationship.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Verse 21-1: On meeting others
Seeing the buddha potential in others transforms how we feel about them.
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Emptiness and bodhicitta
The benefits of generating bodhicitta and how emptiness and bodhicitta can support one another.
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Refuge in the Three Jewels
What it means to take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
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Verse 20-3: Creating the causes
A meditation practice of reasoning with the angry mind to drop the anger. Considering that…
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Emptiness in everyday life
How ignorance, conceptualizations, afflictions and karma are linked and how to practice the understanding of…
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Verse 20-2: The lower realms
A description of the lower realms, and whether they are actual places or just states…
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Meditation on our precious human life
The benefits of meditating on the eight freedoms we have been given with our precious…
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Meditation on emptiness
The preciousness of study and meditation on emptiness and the gap between the objective reality…
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Verse 20-1: Going downhill
The importance of preventing sentient beings, and ourselves, from being born in the lower realms.
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Mental 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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