Teachings
Teachings on the Buddhist worldview from introductory talks to comprehensive explanations of the stages of the path to awakening.
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Venerable Thubten Samten Review of Chapter 7: Verses 151-155
A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Chapters 8-9: Verses 200-201
An explanation of the three kinds of compassion, dependent arising, making ourselves suitable vessels, and…
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Living with loss
How to work with the emotions when we lose the things we are attached to.…
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Chapter 8: Verses 197-200
The relationship between realizing emptiness and generating bodhicitta, and why the end of afflictions is…
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Ethics and right livelihood
A response to a student's question on what to do if one's loved ones are…
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Chapter 8: Self and emptiness
A discussion session that touches on the self-centered thought, how self-grasping ignorance produced afflictions, and…
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Chapter 8: Verses 195-196
How to meditate on emptiness, and the importance of reflection and meditation on the teachings.
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Chapter 8: Verses 192-194
The different ways the Buddha presented the teachings according to the disposition of the disciples.
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Chapter 8: Verses 190-191
Meditating on emptiness of the self, three levels of selflessness of persons, and the four-point…
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Chapter 8: Verses 188-190
A student must be prepared for the teachings on emptiness in order to understand the…
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Chapter 8: Verses 184-187
An explanation of how emptiness does not mean non-existence, and the problems with being attached…
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Contemplating causality
It is helpful to contemplate whether your beliefs and views about who you are and…
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