Stages of the Path
Lamrim teachings provide a step-by-step approach to practicing the entire path to awakening.
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Review of serenity
Venerable Thubten Tarpa reviews the teachings on serenity, focusing on what to take as your…
View PostThe correct view
Continuation of the commentary on verses from Je Rinpoche's "Three Principle Aspects of the Path,"…
View PostDependent arising
Sharing a newly written prayer to Kwan Yin and teaching on the relationship between emptiness…
View PostIllusion-like appearances
Covering three sections on the illusion-like appearance of conventional reality experienced after meditative equipoise on…
View PostIdentifying inherent existence
Covering the section “Establishing the lack of an intrinsic nature of 'mine'” and explores how…
View PostIdentifying the person
Teaching on how to identify the conventionally existent person and challenge its appearance of being…
View PostRealizing selflessness
Continuing the section on insight and explaining how realizing selflessness cuts the root of samsara.
View PostIdentifying afflictive ignorance
Beginning the section on insight and covering the two kinds of grasping at self (persons…
View PostAttaining serenity
Teaching on flawed methods of meditating, the five faults, the six powers, the four types…
View PostSerenity and insight
Review of meditative stability and developing serenity (samatha) and insight (vipashyana).
View PostFrom serenity to the jhanas
Explaining how to progress from serenity to the jhanas, and describing the first four of…
View PostNine stages of sustained attention
Teaching on Maitreya's nine stages of sustained attention, including the six powers and four types…
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