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Cultivate wisdom that can overcome ignorance at all levels and lead to the attainment of liberation and full awakening.
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Freeing ourselves and others
How the determination to be free from cyclic existence leads to the generation of bodhicitta.
View PostAfflictions, mind, and the brain
Working with the afflictions and the relationship between the mind and the brain.
View PostThe determination to be free
The importance of generating the determination to be free from cyclic existence and the steps…
View PostOur situation in cyclic existence
Recognizing our situation in samsara as the foundation for studying Middle Way philosophy.
View PostReview of four possibilities
Reviewing the debate on the four possibilities and the four possibilities without anything that is…
View PostFour possibilities
Continuing Chapter Four by engaging the audience in identifying the 'four possibilities' when comparing different…
View PostThe comparison of phenomena
Beginning chapter four by teaching on how to use logic and reasoning to understand how…
View PostPracticing the Dharma
Finishing Chapter Three, with advice for how to incorporate the Buddha's teachings into our lives…
View PostThe three higher trainings
Teaching Chapter Three, focusing on the three higher trainings of ethical conduct, meditative stabilization and…
View PostSyllogisms
Venerable Thubten Tarpa elaborates on the brief debate from the previous teaching, providing insight into…
View PostMotivation to practice
How mindfulness of death and impermanence provides motivation to practice the Dharma, and why we…
View PostWhy study debate?
Introduction to the text with an explanation of why we would want to study debate.
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