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Chandrakirti’s sevenfold reasoning

Meditation and teachings on Chandrakirti's sevenfold reasoning to realize emptiness.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Factors causing afflictions to arise

Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how six principal factors that cause afflictions to arise…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Antidotes to attachment

A teaching on attachment and its antidotes, and the six causes of delusion.

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Investigating the nature of reality

Review of key terms and applying the sevenfold reasoning to refute inherent existence.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

The order in which afflictions arise

Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing the order in which afflictions arise according to different…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

The defects of anger

Discussing the various defects and disadvantages of anger, covering Verses 1 - 6 of Chapter…

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Dependent arising and emptiness

How things arise dependently and how this relates to their emptiness of inherent existence.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Eighty-four thousand afflictions

Completing Chapter 3, covering five hindrances and beginning Chapter 4, describing how fear, anxiety and…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Meditating on suffering (continued)

How meditating on suffering gives rise to renunciation and a discussion about the root of…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Putting the dharma into practice

Covering Chapter 5 Verses 100-109, discussing the advice to dedicate our merits for the welfare…

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