Stages of the Path

Lamrim teachings provide a step-by-step approach to practicing the entire path to awakening.

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Hindrances to concentration: Desire and ill will

The first two of the five hindrances to concentration. How sensual desire and malice/ill will…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

The pratimoksha vows

The various types of individual liberation vows and clarifying some confusion about the meaning and…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Ethics and precepts

The importance of taking precepts and a reminder that precepts are voluntarily taken and are…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Six perfections and three higher trainings

What makes the three higher trainings higher--rather than just ordinary--is the long-term motivation of attaining…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Higher training in ethics

How ethical discipline is the foundation on which concentration and wisdom are built. Taking precepts…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Ethics, concentration, and wisdom

Practicing the three higher trainings, which are practices imbued with refuge in the Three Jewels…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Cleansing the mind of ignorance

How wisdom can overpower ignorance and eliminate it, but it cannot get rid of our…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Conventional and clear light mind

A teaching on the reasons why the afflictions can be eliminated, that the mind is…

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