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Buddhist Worldview

Seeing ourselves as we really are

How to develop a beneficial and realistic view of ourselves and others.

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 22-1: Bodhicitta while walking

The welfare of sentient beings is transforming the mind into virtue and abandoning the afflictions.

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Seven-point Mind Training

Rarity of a precious human life

Discussion regarding the rarity of creating the causes and conditions for a precious human life…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 21-4: Emptiness of mind

The clear light nature of the mind, transition from the sutra view to the tantric…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 21-3: Buddha nature

How buddha nature is described as the emptiness of the mind, and what that means.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Benefits of cultivating bodhicitta

Combining the two techniques for cultivating bodhicitta and the benefits of cultivating bodhicitta.

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 21-2: Seeing the buddha in others

Seeing sentient beings as buddhas, a way to control our negative mind but not taking…

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Tenets with 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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