Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness Retreat (New York 2017 & 2019)
Teachings based on Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness: A Commentary on Nagarjuna's "Precious Garland" given at the Garrison Institute
The causes and effects of higher rebirth
Venerable Thubten Chodron A series of good rebirths that allow Dharma practice is necessary to attain awakening. Nagarjuna identifies the practices that lead to upper rebirth.
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The advantages of living ethically
Ethical conduct is primary cause of higher rebirth. Developing ethical conduct involves abandoning thirteen activities and engaging in three practices.
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The results of virtue and nonvirtue
In order to create the causes for upper rebirth and awakening it's important to discern what is an unmistaken path and what are wrong paths.
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How things appear and how they exist
The way things appear to us is not the way they exist. To attain liberation and awakening the wisdom realizing how things and persons really…
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The importance of ethical conduct
Emphasizing the importance of ethical conduct to secure a precious human rebirth, and explaining the meaning of virtuous and nonvirtuous actions.
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Creating the causes for happiness
Teaching on creating the causes for happiness, disadvantages of self-centered thought, and dependent arising.
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Ultimate and conventional truths
Exploring ultimate and conventional truths and teaching on how to avoid the two extremes of absolutism and nihilism.
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Letting go of identities
Exploring how meditation on emptiness and bodhicitta provides a way to let go of our biases, prejudices, and restrictive self-identities.
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