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.
Excellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) Describing the clear and cognizant nature of the mind as the stable basis for developing good qualities limitlessly
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Excellent qualities can be built up cumulatively
Explaining how the mind can be habituated to excellent qualities that can be built up cumulatively, reviewing the section "Excellent Qualities Can Be Cultivated Limitlessly"
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Excellent qualities can be enhanced
Explaining how it is possible to cultivate the mind’s excellent qualities limitlessly in the section "Excellent Qualities Can Be Cultivated Limitlessly"
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Reflection on cultivating excellent qualities
Leading a discussion on points 1-3 in the reflection at the end of the section "Excellent Qualities Can Be Cultivated Limitlessly"
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Afflictions and the nature of the mind
Explaining how the mind is different from mental factors, teaching from the next section, “Afflictive Mental States and the Nature of the Mind”, in Chapter…
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Primordially pure awareness
Explaining the meaning of "primordially pure" and our need to interweave the understanding of emptiness and conventional reality, from the section "“Afflictive Mental States and…
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Unborn clear light mind
Comparing how the primordially pure mind is understood in the New Translation School (clear light mind) to the Dzogchen perspective of rigpa, teaching from the…
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Dormant and manifest consciousnesses
Explaining dormant and manifest aspects of rigpa and subtlest clear light mind, completing the section "Afflictive Mental States and the Nature of the Mind” from…
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Equality of samsara and nirvana
Describing the meaning of "one taste in emptiness", beginning the section, "The Equality of Samsara and Nirvana" from Chapter 12
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Conventional and ultimate analysis
Explaining how things are not findable under conventional and ultimate analysis, continuing the section "Equality of Samsara and Nirvana", from Chapter 12
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