Four Truths for the Aryas
A framework that explains our unsatisfactory experience in cyclic existence and how we can free ourselves from it.
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Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature
Volume 3 of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion addresses the unsatisfactory nature of samsara, what it means to renounce our present predicament, and how the mind is the basis for both the problems of samsara and the peace of nirvana.
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Attributes of the Four Truths (2017)
Short talks on the 16 attributes of the four truths of the aryas given at Sravasti Abbey during the 2017 Winter Retreat.
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Four Noble Truths Retreat (2014)
Teachings given during the Four Noble Truths Retreat at Sravasti Abbey.
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Happiness and Suffering Retreat (Raleigh 2013)
Teachings given at a retreat on the four truths for the aryas held at the Kadampa Center in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2013.
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Stages of the Path: Four Noble Truths (2009)
Short talks on the four truths for aryas based on the Guru Puja text by the first Panchen Lama Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen.
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Using reasoning to develop confidence that nirvana and awakening are possible. The factors that make…
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The intention to lie
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The last two attributes of true paths and encouragement to meditate on all 16 attributes.
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Attributes of true paths: Path and suitable
Why it's important to know that there is a path to liberation and that it…
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Attributes of true cessations: Magnificent and Freedom
Why nirvana is magnificent and definite emergence from cyclic existence.
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Attributes of true cessations: Cessation and peace
Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches on the first two attributes of true cessations.
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Attributes of true origins: Conditions
How craving and karma function as conditions that create suffering in cyclic existence as well.
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Attributes of true origins: Strong producers
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Attributes of true origins: Origin
Why the origins of cyclic existence are numerous, not singular, and how this helps us…
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Attributes of true origins: Cause
How our state of existence in samsara has a cause, it is not random.
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Attributes of true dukkha: Selfless
A teaching on the non-existence of the self-sufficient substantially existent person.
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