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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Consequences

Continuing to teach on Chapter 22 about the consequences of faulty reasoning.

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Bodhicitta, the most meaningful pursuit

How bodhichitta is the most meaningful pursuit in life, and a three-level meditation on love…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Deepening love and compassion

The two factors necessary to develop love and compassion, and two meditations to generate the…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Expectations, fairness, and compassion

Expectations, fairness and compassion in the context of understanding our own and others' unsatisfactory experience…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Getting in touch with dukkha

Similarities between the unsatisfactory experience in samsara and a bucket in a well, with focus…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

The analogy of a bucket

Chapter 21: "Feeling Empathy." The first two similarities between the unsatisfactory experience of samsara, and…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Three kinds of sameness

Sharing supplemental information on the three kinds of sameness and beginning Chapter 23 “Consequences.”

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

One and different as subjects

Covering the section “One-with-x and Different-from-x as Subjects” in Chapter 21.

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

One and many as predicates

Covering the section “One-with-x and Different-from-x as Predicates” in Chapter 21.

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

One and different

Going over exercises 20.1 and 20.4 with the class and beginning Chapter 21 “One and…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Divisions and illustrations

Reviewing material already covered in Chapter 20 on definitions and illustrations, and discussing the different…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

The omnipresent mental factors

Venerable Sangye Khadro begins teaching on 'Mind and Mental Factors', giving an introduction, and covering…

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