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

Ongoing 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. Tune in live on Fridays at 6 pm Pacific Time here.

Excellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly

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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Rigpa

Explaining rigpa, continuing the teaching from the section "Afflictive Mental States and the Nature of the Mind", in Chapter 12.

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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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One taste

Continuing the explanation of "one taste" of samsara and nirvana, emphasizing the importance of establishing conventional existence before the realization of emptiness, from the section…

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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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