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.

Concentration, knowledge & vision and dise...

Continuing teaching from Chapter 10, explaining the transcendental factors concentration, knowledge and vision, disenchantment and dispassion.

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Review of feeling

Responding to questions comparing the transcendental factors and eleven virtuous mental factors and reviewing the link feeling from the twelve links.

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Karma in samsara and beyond

Completing teaching from Chapter 10, explaining the last two transcendental factors and covering the types of results from polluted and unpolluted karma

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Freedom from cyclic existence

Commencing teaching from Chapter 11, describing five paths of the practitioners of sravaka vehicle.

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Bodhisattvas’ path to awakening

Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, explaining the five paths of the bodhisattva vehicle.

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The two obscurations

Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, covering afflictive obscurations and cognitive obscurations.

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Nirvana

Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, describing the nature and characteristics of nirvana.

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Types of nirvana

Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, covering natural nirvana and nirvana with remainder and nirvana without remainder

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Nirvana in the Pali tradition

Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, covering non-abiding nirvana and nirvana as the cessation of duhkha and it's origins.

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The mind and its potential

Completing teaching Chapter 11, "Freedom From Cyclic Existence" and commencing Chapter 12, "Mind and Its Potential".

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Is liberation possible?

Continuing teaching from Chapter 12, describing three reasons that make liberation possible

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