Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Teachings on duhkha, the determination to be free of samsara, and the mind as the basis for samsara and nirvana.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Review of the four truths

Reviewing Chapter 1, covering four truths and sixteen attributes of the four truths.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

The root of samsara

Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, explaining how different tenet systems describe what is the root…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

First-link ignorance

Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, explaining the specific scope of the first-link, ignorance and the…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Applying karma to our lives

Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, applying karma to the recent trial and describing the Rice…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Dependent arising

Completing Chapter 6, covering karma and instinctual behavior and commencing Chapter 7, describing the wheel…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Karma and our environment

Continuing teaching from Chapter 6, covering the interaction between the mind and external world and…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Mind and the external world

Continuing teaching from Chapter 6, covering the evolution of the universe and the relationship between…

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Library of Wisdom and Compassion

Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha nature

An overview of "Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature," Volume 3 of The Library of Wisdom…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Virtue, nonvirtue, merit, and roots of nonvirtue

Completing Chapter 5, covering five types of virtues and five types of nonvirtues and starting…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Having-ceased

Continuing teaching from Chapter 5, explaining having-ceased and karmic seed and comparing the notions of…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

More on seeds and latencies

Continuing teaching from Chapter 5, covering seeds and latencies of afflictions and seeds and latencies…

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