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Venerable Thubten Chodron Chapter 11: Summarizing verse
Past, present, and future relate to each other as cause and result. How the continuity…
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Chapter 11: Refuting truly existent time
How do the past, present, and future exist? How can things be impermanent yet have…
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Chapter 10: Verses 248-250
How we avoid the extremes of permanence and annihilation by seeing that things change moment…
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Chapter 10: Verse 247
Considering how things are impermanent but do not go completely out of existence. Everything has…
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Chapter 10: Verses 236-246
The untenable consequences of positing a permanent creator or soul, refuting non-Buddhist views of a…
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Chapter 10: Refuting misconceptions of the self
Refuting erroneous views of an unchanging self, both innate and acquired. How to use awareness…
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Developing calm abiding
How keeping precepts helps one's meditation practice and helps in living a happier life.
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Middle way school and focusing your mind
What the self is and is not. Consciousness can be valid and mistaken at the…
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Causes and conditions for enlightenment
Understanding emptiness in the context of the entire Buddhist path, with the wish to attain…
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Dependent arising and emptiness
An understanding of cause and effect is necessary for and compatible with the realization of…
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Seeing the interdependence of phenomena
Understanding phenomena are empty of inherent existence because they are dependent arising. Avoid notion of…
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Chapters 9-10: Verses 224-226
When investigated, the strong feeling of a personal self and identity cannot be found, and…
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