Three Principal Aspects of the Path (2002-07)
Teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa’s Three Principal Aspects of the Path" given at various locations around the United States from 2002-2007.
The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
-
Lama Tsongkhapa - Three Principal Aspects of the Path
- Apr 16, 2002
Verses on the essence of the path to awakening by Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, plus a recording of…
View Post
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
The preliminaries
How the Buddhist teachings plant in our minds the seed of the realizations that will will eventually lead us to liberation and enlightenment.
View Post
Renunciation
We are stuck in cyclic existence. Through the teachings, we see the problems of cyclic existence and begin to find our way out.
View Post
The eight worldly concerns
How to work with mental obstacles that keep us from practicing the Dharma.
View Post
Precious human rebirth
How we can use our precious human life to advance ourselves on the Dharma path.
View Post
Rarity of a precious human rebirth
Contemplating the rarity of a precious human life complete with both the ability and the freedom to study the Dharma inspires us to further our…
View Post
Nine-point death meditation
By reflecting carefully and thoroughly on death and impermanence, we reach the conclusion that we must practice Dharma purely.
View Post
Imagining your death
The Buddhist practice of meditation on our own deaths can free our minds from the attachments and obsessions that often disrupt our daily lives.
View Post
General characteristics of karma
Karma is definite, expandable, doesn't get lost, and results from the causes that we have created through the actions of our body, speech, and mind.
View Post
Infallible effects of karma
Avoiding and purifying the negative karma created through the actions of our body, speech, and mind.
View Post
Sufferings of cyclic existence
We can ground our intention to be free from the endless cycle of samsara by fully understanding the nature of suffering.
View Post