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Glossary: innate self-grasping
The inborn, spontaneous grasping at self-existence that all beings in cyclic existence have.
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Defining physical and mental causes with examples. Tools to work with negative states of mind.
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How to use your meditation to move through the various stages of realizing emptiness, the correct view of reality. The meaning of "seeing things like an illusio
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Third and fourth noble truths
The remaining eight aspects of the third and fourth noble truths of true cessations and true paths.
