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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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Khensur Jampa Tegchog smiles at the camera.
Teachings by Khensur Jampa Tegchok

The truth of the origin of suffering

Looking at inappropriate attention and how it works in our mind, creating attachment and suffering.

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Khensur Jampa Tegchog smiles at the camera.
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A proper motivation

How the proper motivation is required in order to reap the full benefits of our…

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Khensur Jampa Tegchog smiles at the camera.
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The truth of dukkha

Understanding dukkha helps us to cultivate the wish to be free from it.

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Khensur Jampa Tegchog smiles at the camera.
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Love, compassion, and wisdom

It is through the three higher trainings (discipline, meditation and wisdom) that we overcome the…

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Khensur Jampa Tegchog smiles at the camera.
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The mind and renunciation

The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…

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Khensur Jampa Tegchog smiles at the camera.
Teachings by Khensur Jampa Tegchok

The Buddha and the Dharma

How the Buddha turned he wheel of Dharma three times, the Buddha is free from…

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Khensur Jampa Tegchog smiles at the camera.
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Introduction

Introductory teaching on the life history of Nagarjuna, cyclic existence, karma, bodhicitta, and the meaning…

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Khensur Jampa Tegchog smiles at the camera.
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Two truths

While all things are empty and without inherent existence they still do exist in a…

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A hand grasping a light bulb.
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Dependent arising and our true nature

Dependent arising and how it acts as a reason to establish the emptiness of inherent…

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A very unique roadside museum-The Museum of Everyday Life, housed in an old cow barn.
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Emptiness in everyday life

Looking at everyday phenomena in terms of emptiness and dependent arising and how changing how…

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Venerable Thubten Chodron, Lama Zopa with retreatants standing and talking.
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Lama Zopa on emptiness

An interview with Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Prasangika Madhyamaka view of emptiness and its…

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