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Khensur Jampa Tegchok Abandoning nonvirtue, practicing virtue
Avoiding the ten nonvirtues is the basis for practicing ethical conduct. How taking precepts in…
View Post The fourth distortion
The source of suffering is due to our misconceptions in perceiving phenomena.
View Post Motivation in practicing virtue
The importance of creating virtue with the proper motivation.
View Post The truth of the origin of suffering
Looking at inappropriate attention and how it works in our mind, creating attachment and suffering.
View Post A proper motivation
How the proper motivation is required in order to reap the full benefits of our…
View Post The truth of dukkha
Understanding dukkha helps us to cultivate the wish to be free from it.
View Post Love, compassion, and wisdom
It is through the three higher trainings (discipline, meditation and wisdom) that we overcome the…
View Post The mind and renunciation
The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…
View Post The Buddha and the Dharma
How the Buddha turned he wheel of Dharma three times, the Buddha is free from…
View Post Introduction
Introductory teaching on the life history of Nagarjuna, cyclic existence, karma, bodhicitta, and the meaning…
View Post Two truths
While all things are empty and without inherent existence they still do exist in a…
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