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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How bodhichitta is the most meaningful pursuit in life, and a three-level meditation on love and compassion.
View PostThe 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
View PostLike 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
View PostUnderstanding our situation in samsara
Speaking on the importance of seeing sentient beings as precious and teaching on ten nonvirtues and three types of suffering
View PostReflecting on impermanence
Teaching on generating the sense of closeness with others and outlining the meditation to develop love and compassion
View PostSubtle impermanence
Answering questions from retreat participants and teaching on understanding impermanence and generating love and compassion
View PostAbsorbing 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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