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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Chapter 12: Refuting wrong views
Cultivating the qualities of a proper student to receive the teachings on the correct view…
View PostChapter 11: Verses 266-275
The relationship between impermanence and duration. Refuting a truly existent present.
View PostChapter 11: Verses 263-265
Considering the kindness of all the practitioners who have kept the teachings alive for 2,600…
View PostSixteen attributes of the four noble truths
How each one of us has the potential to change how we think, hence situations…
View PostThe truth of dukkha
The four aspects of the first truth, the truth of dukkha. How we are stuck…
View PostExamining our obstacles
Examining where our heart of compassion gets blocked and explanation of the Buddhist perspective on…
View PostChapter 11: Verses 251-255
Refuting lower Buddhist schools' assertions about the future and examining the consequences of positing truly…
View PostChapter 11: Summarizing verse
Past, present, and future relate to each other as cause and result. How the continuity…
View PostChapter 11: Refuting truly existent time
How do the past, present, and future exist? How can things be impermanent yet have…
View PostChapter 10: Verses 248-250
How we avoid the extremes of permanence and annihilation by seeing that things change moment…
View PostChapter 10: Verse 247
Considering how things are impermanent but do not go completely out of existence. Everything has…
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