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.
Questioning appearances
Venerable Thubten Chodron Teaching on extending the meditation on emptiness to things we own, and on the union of serenity and insight.
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Dependent arising and emptiness
How to see ourselves as an illusion instead of buying into our usual distorted view of reality.
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Dependent designation
Teaching on how everything depends on thought, and an explanation of the analogy of the rope and the snake that is often used to explain…
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Feeling empathy
Comparing rebirth in cyclic existence to a bucket going up and down a well.
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A bucket in a well
Explaining the analogy of cyclic existence as a bucket in a well, focusing on karma and self-grasping ignorance.
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Compassion as an antidote to anger
The antidotes to anger as the first step towards cultivating compassion for all sentient beings.
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Closeness to others
How recognizing the kindness of others develops a sense of closeness to them.
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Love, compassion, and total commitment
The three levels of love, compassion, and total commitment, and the eight precepts of aspiring bodhicitta.
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The analogy of a bucket
Chapter 21: "Feeling Empathy." The first two similarities between the unsatisfactory experience of samsara, and a bucket in a well.
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Getting in touch with dukkha
Similarities between the unsatisfactory experience in samsara and a bucket in a well, with focus on understanding our own experience of dukkha.
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Expectations, fairness, and compassion
Expectations, fairness and compassion in the context of understanding our own and others' unsatisfactory experience in samsara.
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