Stages of the Path

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

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Gomchen Lamrim

Review of five faults and eight antidotes

Venerable Thubten Samten leads a review of the Gomchen Lamrim sections on the five faults…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Review: Nine stages of sustained attention

Venerable Thubten Damcho reviews the nine stages of sustained attention, using the visual tool of…

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Stages of the Path to Awakening Podcast

Review of serenity

Venerable Thubten Tarpa reviews the teachings on serenity, focusing on what to take as your…

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Gomchen Lamrim

The correct view

Continuation of the commentary on verses from Je Rinpoche's "Three Principle Aspects of the Path,"…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Dependent arising

Sharing a newly written prayer to Kwan Yin and teaching on the relationship between emptiness…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Illusion-like appearances

Covering three sections on the illusion-like appearance of conventional reality experienced after meditative equipoise on…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Identifying inherent existence

Covering the section “Establishing the lack of an intrinsic nature of 'mine'” and explores how…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Identifying the person

Teaching on how to identify the conventionally existent person and challenge its appearance of being…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Realizing selflessness

Continuing the section on insight and explaining how realizing selflessness cuts the root of samsara.

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Gomchen Lamrim

Identifying afflictive ignorance

Beginning the section on insight and covering the two kinds of grasping at self (persons…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Attaining serenity

Teaching on flawed methods of meditating, the five faults, the six powers, the four types…

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Stages of the Path to Awakening Podcast

Serenity and insight

Review of meditative stability and developing serenity (samatha) and insight (vipashyana).

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