Teachings based on Shantideva’s classic text “Engaging in the Bodhisattva’s Deeds.” A text that the residents of Sravasti Abbey read annually on Christmas Day, this is a book that provides a road map to awakening you’ll keep coming back to.
Teachings based on Shantideva’s classic text “Engaging in the Bodhisattva’s Deeds.” A text that the residents of Sravasti Abbey read annually on Christmas Day, this is a book that provides a road map to awakening you’ll keep coming back to.
Discussing the various defects and disadvantages of anger, covering Verses 1 – 6 of Chapter 6
Covering Chapter 5 Verses 100-109, discussing the advice to dedicate our merits for the welfare of all sentient beings and to put the teachings into practice
Covering Verses 91-100 of Chapter 5, discussing advice on manners, namely actions such as spitting, eating, using the bathroom, and giving directions
Discussing ways to think, speak and act in order to joyfully create virtue in the commentary to Verses 79 – 84 of Chapter 5
Covering Verses 74-79 of Chapter 5, discussing the transformative practice of rejoicing in others’ qualities, and speaking and acting in ways that others enjoy
Covering Verses 71 – 75 of Chapter 5, discussing practical advice about how to do daily activities in a way that is pleasing and beneficial to others
Covers Verses 5.60-5.70, discussing how to cultivate a sense of the body’s lack of cleanliness, reduce our attachment to it and use it to create virtue
Covering Verses 5.54-5.60 on how to be resolute in the Dharma practice, cultivate mental stability, respect, and politeness, and abandon attachment to the body
Covers Verses 46-54 of Chapter 5 discussing skilful ways to act when afflictions arise
Covering Verses 5.34-45, discussing how we can use mindfulness and introspection to assess how we move through space and impact others with our body and speech
