Stages of the Path
Lamrim teachings provide a step-by-step approach to practicing the entire path to awakening.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The pratimoksha vows
The various types of individual liberation vows and clarifying some confusion about the meaning and…
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Ethics and precepts
The importance of taking precepts and a reminder that precepts are voluntarily taken and are…
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Mindfulness for ethics, concentration, and wisdom
The importance of mindfulness in all three of the higher trainings, with an emphasis on…
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Mindfulness and introspective awareness
The importance of mindfulness and introspective awareness in our everyday lives.
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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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Higher training in ethics
How ethical discipline is the foundation on which concentration and wisdom are built. Taking precepts…
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Ethics, concentration, and wisdom
Practicing the three higher trainings, which are practices imbued with refuge in the Three Jewels…
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Cleansing the mind of ignorance
How wisdom can overpower ignorance and eliminate it, but it cannot get rid of our…
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Conventional and clear light mind
A teaching on the reasons why the afflictions can be eliminated, that the mind is…
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Obstructions to the clear and knowing mind
How and why liberation is possible by seeing that the basic nature of the mind…
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Six root afflictions: Wrong views
An explanation of the six kinds of wrong views outlined by the Buddha.
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