Concluding the series with an explanation on the four ways to benefit trainees, the combination of serenity and insight, and the Vajrayana.
The Vajrayana path
Venerable Thubten Chodron’s commentary (2007-2008) to Essence of Refined Gold, a concise lamrim text by the Third Dalai Lama, Gyalwa Sonam Gyatso. This text itlsef is a commentary to Lama Tsongkhapa’s short lamrim text Songs of Experience. These 68 teachings cover the entire path to awakening: use the sidebar to the left to access your topic of choice.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron’s commentary (2007-2008) to Essence of Refined Gold, a concise lamrim text by the Third Dalai Lama, Gyalwa Sonam Gyatso. This text itlsef is a commentary to Lama Tsongkhapa’s short lamrim text Songs of Experience. These 68 teachings cover the entire path to awakening: use the sidebar to the left to access your topic of choice.
Illusion-like appearances
Learning to see all phenomena as like illusions.
Dependent arising and emptiness
Investigating ultimate and conventional truth through the teachings on dependent arising and emptiness.
Refuting inherently existent phenomena
Using the “diamond slivers” reasoning to refute the inherent production of phenomena.
Refuting the inherent self
Using reasoning to refute the inherent existence of the self and all phenomena.
Investigating the self
Using Chandrakirti’s seven points of investigating the ultimate mode of existence to investigate how the self exists.
The ultimate mode of existence
Investigating inherent existence through Chandrakirti’s seven points for investigating the ultimate mode of existence.
Cultivating the correct view
An in-depth look at how we apprehend objects, including the self, and how we can cultivate a correct view of reality through reasoning and analysis.
Conceptuality
How conceptuality plays a role in actualizing the path.
The object of negation
The importance of correctly identifying the object of negation to refute inherent existence.