Gomchen Lamrim
Commentary on The Essence of All Eloquent Speech by the great meditator Ngawang Drakpa of Dagpo.
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Nine stages of sustained attention
Teaching on Maitreya's nine stages of sustained attention, including the six powers and four types…
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From serenity to the jhanas
Explaining how to progress from serenity to the jhanas, and describing the first four of…
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Serenity and insight
Review of meditative stability and developing serenity (samatha) and insight (vipashyana).
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Attaining serenity
Teaching on flawed methods of meditating, the five faults, the six powers, the four types…
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Identifying afflictive ignorance
Beginning the section on insight and covering the two kinds of grasping at self (persons…
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Realizing selflessness
Continuing the section on insight and explaining how realizing selflessness cuts the root of samsara.
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Identifying the person
Teaching on how to identify the conventionally existent person and challenge its appearance of being…
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Identifying inherent existence
Covering the section “Establishing the lack of an intrinsic nature of 'mine'” and explores how…
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Illusion-like appearances
Covering three sections on the illusion-like appearance of conventional reality experienced after meditative equipoise on…
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Dependent arising
Sharing a newly written prayer to Kwan Yin and teaching on the relationship between emptiness…
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The correct view
Continuation of the commentary on verses from Je Rinpoche's "Three Principle Aspects of the Path,"…
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Review of serenity
Venerable Thubten Tarpa reviews the teachings on serenity, focusing on what to take as your…
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