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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Venerable Thubten Chodron Chapter 10: Verses 236-246
The untenable consequences of positing a permanent creator or soul, refuting non-Buddhist views of a…
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Chapter 10: Refuting misconceptions of the self
Refuting erroneous views of an unchanging self, both innate and acquired. How to use awareness…
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Generating wealth
The antidote to feeling poor is generosity, might it be in material or in immaterial…
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Developing calm abiding
How keeping precepts helps one's meditation practice and helps in living a happier life.
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Middle way school and focusing your mind
What the self is and is not. Consciousness can be valid and mistaken at the…
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Causes and conditions for enlightenment
Understanding emptiness in the context of the entire Buddhist path, with the wish to attain…
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Dependent arising and emptiness
An understanding of cause and effect is necessary for and compatible with the realization of…
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Seeing the interdependence of phenomena
Understanding phenomena are empty of inherent existence because they are dependent arising. Avoid notion of…
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Chapters 9-10: Verses 224-226
When investigated, the strong feeling of a personal self and identity cannot be found, and…
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Verse 4: The darkness of ignorance
Ignorance of how things exist and ignorance of karma and its effects are like dark…
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Chapter 9: Verses 218-223
Examining and refuting the idea that there is a truly existent liberation and person who…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Review 1 of Chapter 8: Verses 184-188
The first review of chapter 8 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" continues,…
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