Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas with Venerable Thubten Chodron (2013-15)
Commentary by Venerable Thubten Chodron on Aryadeva’s Four Hundred Stanzas on the Middle Way to prepare for Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe's teachings.
Chapter 11: Quiz review part 1
Review and discussion of questions on refuting truly existent time. The first part of the review covers questions 1-4.
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Review and discussion of questions on refuting truly existent time. The second part of the review covers questions 5-15 and completes the quiz.
View PostChapter 14: Verses 326-334
Reflecting on the relationship between an object and its attributes to refute true existence.
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Applying ultimate analysis to challenge our assumptions about what makes a person a terrorist.
View PostChapter 14: Verses 335-343
Examining the relationship between an object and its attributes, and the whole and its parts, to refute the wrong view of inherent existence.
View PostChapter 14: Verse 344
Refuting the inherent existence of phenomena by seeing they cannot be inherently one or many.
View PostChapter 14: Verses 345-347
Just as there is no snake in the rope there is no self in the aggregates. Looking at how self and other phenomena are merely…
View PostChapter 14: Verses 348-350
Seeing that emptiness is the meaning of dependent arising and dependent arising is the meaning of emptiness.
View PostChapter 15: Refuting truly existent characteris...
How doe the sprout arise from the seed? When does the seed become a sprout? Refuting inherent existence by refuting inherent production.
View PostChapter 15: Verses 354-358
Refuting arising, abiding and ceasing as being truly existent characteristics of objects.
View PostChapter 15: Verses 359-360
For a complete and correct view it is important to bring emptiness and dependent arising together.
View PostChapter 15: Verses 361-368
The credit card refutation. Using the example of a plastic credit card to refute an object's truly existent arising, abiding and ceasing.
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