Teachings
Teachings on the Buddhist worldview from introductory talks to comprehensive explanations of the stages of the path to awakening.
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Ethics, concentration, and wisdom
Practicing the three higher trainings, which are practices imbued with refuge in the Three Jewels…
View PostThe root of samsara
How things and self are merely imputed by thought and how ignorance is the root…
View PostFriendship
The importance of cultivating positive relationships. How we can love others without being attached to…
View PostReview: Teachings on emptiness
A review of the beginning of the section on cultivating ultimate bodhicitta: creating the causes…
View PostReview: Bodhicitta and the afflictions
A review of the end of the section on cultivating conventional bodhicitta and the meaning…
View PostEight Verses of Thought Transformation
The inspiring verses for how to change our habitual ways of thinking by Geshe Langri…
View PostEmptiness of phenomena
How phenomena are designated by thought. Anger is presented as an example to show that…
View PostCleansing the mind of ignorance
How wisdom can overpower ignorance and eliminate it, but it cannot get rid of our…
View PostConventional and clear light mind
A teaching on the reasons why the afflictions can be eliminated, that the mind is…
View PostParent-child relationships
How expectations and misconceptions can lead to difficulties in parent-child relationships.
View PostUltimate and conventional existence
How the mind grasps at a truly existing "I," and how ultimate analysis or probing…
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