All living beings desire security and stability. How can we, as Buddhists, reconcile this need with our understanding of impermanence?
Tag Archives | emptiness
The light of liberation: True satisfaction and fulfillment
Using reasoning to develop confidence that nirvana and awakening are possible. The factors that make liberation possible. The different kinds of nirvana.
The Vimalakirti Sutra: Eliminating false conceptualization
How eliminating the fault of false conceptualization prevents the arising of afflictions. The emptiness of male and female gender.
The Vimalakirti Sutra: The two truths
What it means to enjoy the delights of the Dharma. The two truths, conventional and ultimate. The two ways to view the body.
How things appear and how they exist
The way things appear to us is not the way they exist. To attain liberation and awakening the wisdom realizing how things and persons really exist is essential.
Realizing the Madhyamaka view
The value of realizing the Middle Way view and how to get clear about it.
Conflicting views of reality
The views about reality posited by different Buddhist philosophical systems.
How do we exist?
The ultimate view of reality and the views of Western physicians on the relationship between body and mind.
Conventional and ultimate bodhicitta
The two methods to generate bodhicitta and the importance of practicing both method and wisdom.
Freeing ourselves and others
How the determination to be free from cyclic existence leads to the generation of bodhicitta.
