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The four immeasurables
The four immeasurables—love, compassion, joy and equanimity—present a way to relate to other living beings…
View PostMeditation on cultivating the four immeasurable thou...
The more we familiarize ourselves with the four immeasurable thoughts—love, compassion, joy and equanimity—the more…
View PostKarma that ripens at death
Continuing Chapter 11, explaining many factors that affect the result of karma and different perspectives…
View PostKeeping the promise of bodhicitta
Discussing Verses 11-16 on the importance of making ourselves into trustworthy people: in general and…
View PostThe truth of cessation
Completion of the commentary on the truth of origination followed by commentary on the truth…
View PostThe truth of origination of suffering
The completion of the commentary to the truth of suffering followed by the commentary to…
View PostRefuting the elements as the cause of afflictions
Refuting views that assert the elements of the body are the substantial cause of the…
View PostRefuting that body is the special basis of mind
Through logical reasoning it is shown that the physical body cannot be the substantial cause…
View PostDisadvantages of discarding bodhicitta
Discussing Verses 2-10 of Chapter 4, which cover the disadvantages of discarding bodhicitta
View PostRefuting incorrect views on the causes of suffering ...
The logical refutations of incorrect ideas of how the mental afflictions and suffering arise and…
View PostThe sixteen aspects of the four truths
How the sixteen aspects of the four truths contradict the sixteen distorted ideas.
View PostThe sixteen distorted ideas
Explanation of the section of the Pramanavarttika on identifying the sixteen distorted ideas about the…
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