Teachings by Khensur Jampa Tegchok
Khensur Jampa Tegchok teaches verses from Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland of Advice for a King.
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Two truths
While all things are empty and without inherent existence they still do exist in a…
View PostIntroduction
Introductory teaching on the life history of Nagarjuna, cyclic existence, karma, bodhicitta, and the meaning…
View PostThe Buddha and the Dharma
How the Buddha turned he wheel of Dharma three times, the Buddha is free from…
View PostThe mind and renunciation
The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…
View PostLove, compassion, and wisdom
It is through the three higher trainings (discipline, meditation and wisdom) that we overcome the…
View PostThe truth of dukkha
Understanding dukkha helps us to cultivate the wish to be free from it.
View PostA proper motivation
How the proper motivation is required in order to reap the full benefits of our…
View PostThe truth of the origin of suffering
Looking at inappropriate attention and how it works in our mind, creating attachment and suffering.
View PostMotivation in practicing virtue
The importance of creating virtue with the proper motivation.
View PostThe fourth distortion
The source of suffering is due to our misconceptions in perceiving phenomena.
View PostAbandoning nonvirtue, practicing virtue
Avoiding the ten nonvirtues is the basis for practicing ethical conduct. How taking precepts in…
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