Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature (2021–23)

Teachings on volume three of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion co-authored with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, on our present situation and our highest potential.

Six sources

Teaching from Chapter 7, explaining name and form in Pali tradition and describing the fifth link, six sources.

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Sources, contact, feeling

Teaching from Chapter 7, covering the fifth link six sources in Pali tradition and covering the sixth link, contact and introducing the seventh link, feeling.

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Feeling

Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, describing the seventh link, feeling.

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Craving and clinging

Continuing the teaching from Chapter 7, describing craving according to Pali tradition and explaining the ninth-link, clinging.

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Clinging and renewed existence

Teaching from Chapter 7, describing clinging in Sanskrit tradition and Pali tradition and explaining the tenth-link, renewed existence

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Renewed existence

Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, describing renewed existence in Sanskrit tradition and in Pali tradition.

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Q&A on the 12 links of dependent origination

Teaching from Chapter 7, covering students' questions on the links of karma and renewed existence.

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Birth

Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, describing the importance of imagining our own death and explaining the eleventh-link, birth

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Questions and answers on meditation

Teaching from Chapter 7, responding to questions on meditating on the dying process and how to do visualization

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Aging or death

Completing Chapter 7, describing the twelfth-link, aging or death and starting Chapter 8 "Dependent Origination: Cycling in Samsara".

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Explicit and implicit presentations of the 12 l...

Continuing the teachings from Chapter 8, explaining the explicit and implicit descriptions of the 12 links based on Rice Seedling sutra.

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