innate self-grasping - Thubten Chodron

The inborn, spontaneous grasping at self-existence that all beings in cyclic existence have.

Review session: Coarse and subtle selflessness
A review of Chandrakirti's assertions that hearer and solitary realizer arhats realize the emptiness of inherent existence.
Working through cause and effect
Defining physical and mental causes with examples. Tools to work with negative states of mind.
Progressing from wrong conceptions to correct view
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
Cultivating the correct view
An in-depth look at how we apprehend objects, including the self, and how we can cultivate a correct view of reality through reasoning and analysis.
Third and fourth noble truths
The remaining eight aspects of the third and fourth noble truths of true cessations and true paths.