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
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Developing calm abiding
Venerable Thubten Chodron How keeping precepts helps one's meditation practice and helps in living a happier life.
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Having a flexible mind
The importance of setting a good motivation, seeing the value of our precious human life, and a review of the past teachings on the text.
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Conditions for practice
A description of the obstacles to meditation, how to have good meditation posture, and the objects of meditation.
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Mindfulness and antidotes to hindrances
How reflecting on the kindness of others motivates our spiritual practice and sets the context for the cultivation of serenity.
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Serenity meditation and the four essential points
The remedies to laxity and excitement, and the nine stages of meditative stabilization.
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Appreciating our opportunities
A motivation on appreciating all the causes and conditions for our precious human rebirth, and how that affects our understanding of who we are.
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Karma and emptiness
An overview of why we would want to learn about emptiness and teaches on the emptiness of persons and phenomena.
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Emptiness and compassion
Analyzing whether the person is one or different from the aggregates.
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Refuting inherent existence
Analyzing whether the person is one with the aggregates, and how we have difficulty seeing conventional reality for what it is.
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Challenging self view
The various reasonings refuting that the person exists inherently in or separate from the aggregates.
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Existence of the “I”
Reviewing the four-point analysis of the emptiness of the self and teaching on coarse and subtle selflessness.
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