How to See Yourself As You Really Are (2012-20)
Teachings on How to See Yourself as You Really Are. by His Holiness the Dalai Lama given at Sravasti Abbey.
Root Text
How to See Yourself as You Really Are by His Holiness the Dalai Lama is available from Simon and Schuster here.
My religion is kindness
Venerable Thubten Chodron Starting with a summary of His Holiness' perspective on universal spiritual values. Identifying our counterproductive emotions as the source of all trouble.
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The need for insight
Examples of how we actively misapprehend reality and the problems it brings.
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Discovering the source of problems
How the mind reifies objects, creating false appearances, causing afflictions to arise.
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Why understanding the truth is needed
As long as we have the seeds of anger in our mind, we will find someone to hate; always finding something to complain about because…
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Apprehending objects and the impact of interrel...
Explaining the three ways of seeing objects. Showing how impermanent phenomena depend on each other and don't exist in and of themselves.
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Dependent arising and realism
Teaching the method side of the path, reflecting on how we are completely dependent on the kindness of others can deepen our understanding of emptiness.
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Dependence on parts and reasoning of dependent ...
Teaching on the three types of dependence and how to analyze the way phenomena and persons exist in dependence on parts and thought.
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Emptiness does not mean nothingness
A teaching on the difference between conventional and ultimate analysis of objects in order to establish their emptiness of inherent existence.
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Seeing the interdependence of phenomena
Understanding phenomena are empty of inherent existence because they are dependent arising. Avoid notion of independent things and denial of cause and effect.
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Dependent arising and emptiness
An understanding of cause and effect is necessary for and compatible with the realization of emptiness. Avoid extreme exaggeration and denial of existence.
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Causes and conditions for enlightenment
Understanding emptiness in the context of the entire Buddhist path, with the wish to attain liberation from cyclic existence and to free others from suffering.
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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 same time. Overcoming laziness and setting up conditions for meditation.
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