Venerable Thubten Samten leads a review of the Gomchen Lamrim sections on the five faults and eight antidotes in relation to attaining serenity.
Review of five faults and eight antidotes
Weekly teachings on Tibetan Buddhist lamrim texts. Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches texts on the stages of the path to awakening or lamrim, showing clearly how to meditate on them and apply these teachings in our daily lives. Get the podcast on TuneIn Radio. Streamed live from Sravasti Abbey on Fridays at 6:15 pm PST.
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Weekly teachings on Tibetan Buddhist lamrim texts. Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches texts on the stages of the path to awakening or lamrim, showing clearly how to meditate on them and apply these teachings in our daily lives. Get the podcast on TuneIn Radio. Streamed live from Sravasti Abbey on Fridays at 6:15 pm PST.
Review: Nine stages of sustained attention
Venerable Thubten Damcho reviews the nine stages of sustained attention, using the visual tool of a traditional Tibetan thangkha.
Review of serenity
Venerable Thubten Tarpa reviews the teachings on serenity, focusing on what to take as your meditation object.
The correct view
Continuation of the commentary on verses from Je Rinpoche’s “Three Principle Aspects of the Path,” about how to realize emptiness.
Dependent arising
Sharing a newly written prayer to Kwan Yin and teaching on the relationship between emptiness and dependent arising.
Illusion-like appearances
Covering three sections on the illusion-like appearance of conventional reality experienced after meditative equipoise on emptiness.
Identifying inherent existence
Covering the section “Establishing the lack of an intrinsic nature of ‘mine’” and explores how conventional and inherent existence appear to the mind.
Identifying the person
Teaching on how to identify the conventionally existent person and challenge its appearance of being inherently existent.
Realizing selflessness
Continuing the section on insight and explaining how realizing selflessness cuts the root of samsara.
Identifying afflictive ignorance
Beginning the section on insight and covering the two kinds of grasping at self (persons and phenomena.)
