Mind Training Like Rays of the Sun (2008-10)
An explanation of Nam-kha Pel’s commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training by Geshe Chekawa given at Sravasti Abbey between September 2008 and July 2010.
Basis of designation
Venerable Thubten Chodron How both faith and wisdom are needed to make progress on the path and how they work together.
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Different views of selflessness
How selflessness is viewed in the four philosophical tenet schools.
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Tenet schools and selflessness
A continued explanation of selflessness according to the four philosophical tenet schools and their views of a coarse and subtle self to be negated.
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Selflessness, karma, and rebirth
A discussion about the different philosophical tenet systems, whether they all aim for buddhahood, how the paths differ, what carries karma from life to life.
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Ultimate and conventional existence
How the mind grasps at a truly existing "I," and how ultimate analysis or probing awareness is used to look at how the object of…
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Emptiness of phenomena
How phenomena are designated by thought. Anger is presented as an example to show that emotions are also merely labeled phenomena.
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Review: Bodhicitta and the afflictions
Venerable Thubten Tarpa A review of the end of the section on cultivating conventional bodhicitta and the meaning of the maxims in the text.
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Review: Teachings on emptiness
Venerable Thubten Chonyi A review of the beginning of the section on cultivating ultimate bodhicitta: creating the causes for understanding the teachings on emptiness.
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The root of samsara
How things and self are merely imputed by thought and how ignorance is the root of cyclic existence.
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Establishing selflessness
Three mistaken approaches to determining selflessness and the order for establishing selflessness.
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Review: Object of negation
Venerable Thubten Semkye A review of the commentary on identifying the object of negation: the reasoning used to refute a permanent, partless, independent self.
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The self and the aggregates
Selflessness of persons: how to investigate if the self is inherently one with the aggregates.
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