Nagarjuna's Precious Garland with Khensur Jampa Tegchok (2006-08)
Commentary on Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland of Advice for a King by Tibetan Buddhist scholar Khensur Jampa Tegchok , given at Sravasti Abbey in 2008.
Two truths
Khensur Jampa Tegchok While all things are empty and without inherent existence they still do exist in a conventional manner.
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Introduction
Venerable Thubten Chodron Introductory teaching on the life history of Nagarjuna, cyclic existence, karma, bodhicitta, and the meaning of a person.
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The Buddha and the Dharma
How the Buddha turned he wheel of Dharma three times, the Buddha is free from all defects, and how all things are dependently originated.
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The mind and renunciation
The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and how to renounce it.
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Love, compassion, and wisdom
It is through the three higher trainings (discipline, meditation and wisdom) that we overcome the gross aspects of body speech and mind.
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The truth of dukkha
Understanding dukkha helps us to cultivate the wish to be free from it.
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A proper motivation
How the proper motivation is required in order to reap the full benefits of our intended actions.
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The truth of the origin of suffering
Looking at inappropriate attention and how it works in our mind, creating attachment and suffering.
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Motivation in practicing virtue
The importance of creating virtue with the proper motivation.
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The fourth distortion
The source of suffering is due to our misconceptions in perceiving phenomena.
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Abandoning nonvirtue, practicing virtue
Avoiding the ten nonvirtues is the basis for practicing ethical conduct. How taking precepts in front of our teacher creates vast amounts of merit.
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