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 Chodron Chapter 9: Verses 205-217
Refuting views held by non-Buddhist schools and lower Buddhist schools.
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What suffering does
While people seek happiness, many feel shaped through suffering. Suffering brings us out of ourselves…
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Transforming suffering
Looking at our reactions when we face adversity, and how we can transform pain and…
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Chapter 9: Refuting permanent functional phenomena
The explanation of ultimate truths begins with verses on the refutation of true existence by…
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Eight verses of mind training: Verses 3-6
Explaining different afflictive emotions and their respective antidotes. Using difficult people and situations for our…
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Discussion on forgiving and apologizing. Seeing that cherishing others is the source of happiness and…
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Our mind creates our experience of happiness or suffering based on how we interpret the…
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Venerable Thubten Samten Review of Chapter 7: Verses 156-175
A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…
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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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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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