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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Craving and clinging

Continuing the teaching from Chapter 7, describing craving according to Pali tradition and explaining the…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Feeling

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

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Sources, contact, feeling

Teaching from Chapter 7, covering the fifth link six sources in Pali tradition and covering…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Six sources

Teaching from Chapter 7, explaining name and form in Pali tradition and describing the fifth…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Name and form

Teaching from Chapter 7, covering the third link according to the Pali tradition and explaining…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Consciousness

Teaching from Chapter 7, explaining the third link of the twelve links of dependent origination,…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Formative action

Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, explaining formative action, the second of the twelve links of…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Review of the four truths

Reviewing Chapter 1, covering four truths and sixteen attributes of the four truths.

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An Open-Hearted Life

Empathy and humor

The importance of offering empathy to ourselves and others to bring connection and ease of…

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Cultivating the Four Immeasurables

Meditation on the four immeasurables

A guided meditation on the four immeasurables—love, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

The root of samsara

Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, explaining how different tenet systems describe what is the root…

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