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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Hindrances to concentration: Desire and ill will

The first two of the five hindrances to concentration. How sensual desire and malice/ill will…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Review: Object of negation

A review of the commentary on identifying the object of negation: the reasoning used to…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

The pratimoksha vows

The various types of individual liberation vows and clarifying some confusion about the meaning and…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Ethics and precepts

The importance of taking precepts and a reminder that precepts are voluntarily taken and are…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Establishing selflessness

Three mistaken approaches to determining selflessness and the order for establishing selflessness.

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Six perfections and three higher trainings

What makes the three higher trainings higher--rather than just ordinary--is the long-term motivation of attaining…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Higher training in ethics

How ethical discipline is the foundation on which concentration and wisdom are built. Taking precepts…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Ethics, concentration, and wisdom

Practicing the three higher trainings, which are practices imbued with refuge in the Three Jewels…

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Seven-point Mind Training

The root of samsara

How things and self are merely imputed by thought and how ignorance is the root…

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