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Geshe Dorji Damdul Hearers, solitary realizers, bodhisattvas
Teachings according to the Vaibhashika, explanation of nirvana, samsara, and renunciation, and a definition of…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Verse 17-2: Taking care of ourselves
Seeing ourselves as worthwhile people, being kind to others because we respect them and see…
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Questions and answers: Existence and tenets
A discussion revolving around existence and the self according to the various tenet schools.
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Verse 17-1: Closing the door to the lower realms
Closing the door to lower rebirths by abandoning ten non-virtues and keeping vows well.
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Karma, impermanence, and cognition
Karmic imprints, rebirth, the person, the aggregates, and types of cognition.
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Five paths, buddhas, and arhats
Unpacking the terms contaminated, uncontaminated, and types of phenomena.
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Four seals, obstacles, and enemies of bodhicitta
The four seals as fixed and true, the obstacles to happiness, how to eliminate ignorance,…
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Verse 16: Opening the door of liberation
We run away from liberation because we let our negative patterns impede us.
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Tenet systems and the extremes
Four seals asserted by all Buddhist schools, misconceptions of self, and the views of different…
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Verse 15-4: Wisdom in benefitting others
To benefit sentient beings in a wise way, at the level that we’re currently at.
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Introduction to the tenets
The first teaching in a series on the tenets: comparison of method and wisdom aspects,…
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