Stages of the Path
Lamrim teachings provide a step-by-step approach to practicing the entire path to awakening.
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Death and impermanence
The importance and benefits of contemplating death, complemented by explanation of the nine-point death meditation.
View PostPrecious human life
Recognizing the freedoms and fortunes of a precious human life, how rare such an opportunity…
View PostAbsorption factors and the jhanas
Entering the jhanas and how one progresses through the jhanas.
View PostCounteracting the hindrances
How we use the absorption factors when cultivating concentration and which absorption factors counteract which…
View PostPatience in developing serenity
How we cultivate the absorption factors along with cultivating serenity and the importance of patience…
View PostFive absorptions factors in brief
A brief description of each of the five absorption factors. How the pleasure we get…
View PostConcentration and the five absorption factors
A brief description of serenity and the levels of concentration and how they relate to…
View PostHindrances to concentration: Doubt
The fifth of the five hindrances, doubt, and how to counteract it. The importance of…
View PostHindrances to concentration: Remorse
Part two of two talks on the fourth of the five hindrances, restlessness and remorse,…
View PostHindrances to concentration: Restlessness
Part one of two talks on the fourth of the five hindrances, restlessness and remorse,…
View PostHindrances to concentration: Dullness and drowsiness
A continuation of the third of the five hindrance, dullness and drowsiness, and how to…
View PostHindrances to concentration: Dullness
The third of the five hindrances. Dullness and drowsiness and the antidotes to these hindrances.
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