Teachings
Teachings on the Buddhist worldview from introductory talks to comprehensive explanations of the stages of the path to awakening.
All Posts in Teachings
Venerable Thubten Chodron “Good Karma”: The ethical dimension of o...
When we understand karma we understand the importance of setting our motivation and making thoughtful…
View Post
Venerable Thubten Tarpa Religion in the modern world
Venerable Thubten Tarpa leads an interactive review of pages 11-15 of "Approaching the Buddhist Path."
View Post
Practicing the Dharma with bodhicitta
How to make bodhicitta the motivation for meditation and our other Dharma practices.
View Post
Practicing with those who harm us
Venerable Chodron's "Sam" story, how those who harm us are rare and precious treasures.
View Post
Cultivating love and compassion
Continuing to read from “Working with Afflictions” in Chapter 3 and covers “Cultivating Love and…
View Post
Why does this get to me?
Reflecting on why we are triggered when someone is overwhelmed by negative energy or intense…
View Post
A graded range of consciousnesses
Covering the first two consciousnesses: wrong consciousness and uncertain consciousness learning toward believing something that…
View Post
Confronting and averting afflictions
How we should be fearful of our afflictions and polluted karma, not other people.
View Post
Attachment endangers us
How when afflictions arise, we often don’t discern them as harmful.
View Post
Virtuous and variable mental factors & the affli...
Finishing teaching the virtuous mental factors, and then covering the root afflictions, auxiliary afflictions, and…
View Post
Object ascertaining and virtuous mental factors
The 51 mental factors, covering the five object-ascertaining and 11 virtuous mental factors.
View Post
The body and mind
The various aspects that compose the body and mind: the twelve sources and eighteen constituents,…
View Post