Teachings
Teachings on the Buddhist worldview from introductory talks to comprehensive explanations of the stages of the path to awakening.
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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…
View PostEight verses of mind training: Verse 2
Discussion on forgiving and apologizing. Seeing that cherishing others is the source of happiness and…
View PostEight verses of mind training: Verse 1
Our mind creates our experience of happiness or suffering based on how we interpret the…
View PostReview of Chapter 7: Verses 156-175
A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…
View PostReview of Chapter 7: Verses 151-155
A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…
View PostChapters 8-9: Verses 200-201
An explanation of the three kinds of compassion, dependent arising, making ourselves suitable vessels, and…
View PostLiving with loss
How to work with the emotions when we lose the things we are attached to.…
View PostChapter 8: Verses 197-200
The relationship between realizing emptiness and generating bodhicitta, and why the end of afflictions is…
View PostEthics and right livelihood
A response to a student's question on what to do if one's loved ones are…
View PostChapter 8: Self and emptiness
A discussion session that touches on the self-centered thought, how self-grasping ignorance produced afflictions, and…
View PostChapter 8: Verses 195-196
How to meditate on emptiness, and the importance of reflection and meditation on the teachings.
View PostChapter 8: Verses 192-194
The different ways the Buddha presented the teachings according to the disposition of the disciples.
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