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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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 12: Refuting wrong views

Cultivating the qualities of a proper student to receive the teachings on the correct view…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Verses 266-275

The relationship between impermanence and duration. Refuting a truly existent present.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Verses 263-265

Considering the kindness of all the practitioners who have kept the teachings alive for 2,600…

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Close up on Buddha statue.
Four Truths for the Aryas

The truth of dukkha

The four aspects of the first truth, the truth of dukkha. How we are stuck…

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Close up on Buddha statue.
Four Truths for the Aryas

Examining our obstacles

Examining where our heart of compassion gets blocked and explanation of the Buddhist perspective on…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Verses 251-255

Refuting lower Buddhist schools' assertions about the future and examining the consequences of positing truly…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Summarizing verse

Past, present, and future relate to each other as cause and result. How the continuity…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Refuting truly existent time

How do the past, present, and future exist? How can things be impermanent yet have…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 10: Verses 248-250

How we avoid the extremes of permanence and annihilation by seeing that things change moment…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 10: Verse 247

Considering how things are impermanent but do not go completely out of existence. Everything has…

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