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.

Deepening love and compassion

The two factors necessary to develop love and compassion, and two meditations to generate the feeling of closeness with others.

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Bodhicitta, the most meaningful pursuit

How bodhichitta is the most meaningful pursuit in life, and a three-level meditation on love and compassion.

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The mind is the source of happiness

Teaching on how our actions determine our present and future experience and explaining how the mind is source of happiness

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Like a bucket in a well

Explaining how to apply thought training techniques to create causes for liberation and full awakening and teaching on understanding the nature of our suffering

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Understanding our situation in samsara

Speaking on the importance of seeing sentient beings as precious and teaching on ten nonvirtues and three types of suffering

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Reflecting on impermanence

Teaching on generating the sense of closeness with others and outlining the meditation to develop love and compassion

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Subtle impermanence

Answering questions from retreat participants and teaching on understanding impermanence and generating love and compassion

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Absorbing yourself in ultimate love

Teaching on understanding emptiness and training in methods to eradicate afflictive emotions and attain liberation and full awakening

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