Library of Wisdom and Compassion
Teachings on His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s commentary on the stages of the path for a Western audience.
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Primordially pure awareness
Explaining the meaning of "primordially pure" and our need to interweave the understanding of emptiness…
View PostThe importance of realizing emptiness
Why emptiness is the antidote to ignorance and the path to peace.
View PostAfflictions and the nature of the mind
Explaining how the mind is different from mental factors, teaching from the next section, “Afflictive…
View PostReflection on cultivating excellent qualities
Leading a discussion on points 1-3 in the reflection at the end of the section…
View PostExcellent qualities can be enhanced
Explaining how it is possible to cultivate the mind’s excellent qualities limitlessly in the section…
View PostExcellent qualities can be built up cumulatively
Explaining how the mind can be habituated to excellent qualities that can be built up…
View PostExcellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
Describing the clear and cognizant nature of the mind as the stable basis for developing…
View PostNature of the mind
Explaining how the nature of the mind is free from pollutants, such that good qualities…
View PostUnderstanding ignorance
Explaining how afflictions are rooted in ignorance and how we can eradicate ignorance, continuing the…
View PostAfflictions are the enemy
Explaining the reason how it is possible to cultivate powerful antidotes to the afflictions, continuing…
View PostSubtlest clear light mind
Describing the meaning of the subtlest clear light mind, and how this is the basis…
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