emptiness
Teachings on the core of Buddhist philosophy: that persons and phenomena are ultimately empty of inherent existence because they are dependent arisings. This is the most powerful antidote that eliminates the ignorance and afflictions that give rise to suffering.
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Chapter 13: Verses 307-310
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe continues the teachings on refuting the inherent existence of visual objects.
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Chapter 13: Verse 301-306
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe continues the teachings on refuting inherent existence of the sense objects.
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Chapter 13: Verse 301
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe starts teachings on refuting the inherent existence of sense organs and objects.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron How things appear and how they exist
The way things appear to us is not the way they exist. To attain liberation…
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Disentangling our identities
Identities are useful conventions, but strongly grasping them can lead to victimhood.
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Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) Realizing the Madhyamaka view
The value of realizing the Middle Way view and how to get clear about it.
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Conflicting views of reality
The views about reality posited by different Buddhist philosophical systems.
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How do we exist?
The ultimate view of reality and the views of Western physicians on the relationship between…
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Conventional and ultimate bodhicitta
The two methods to generate bodhicitta and the importance of practicing both method and wisdom.
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Freeing ourselves and others
How the determination to be free from cyclic existence leads to the generation of bodhicitta.
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Afflictions, mind, and the brain
Working with the afflictions and the relationship between the mind and the brain.
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The determination to be free
The importance of generating the determination to be free from cyclic existence and the steps…
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