wisdom
Teachings on how to cultivate wisdom on many different levels, ranging from the wisdom that understands karma and its effects, the four truths, and how to benefit others, to the wisdom realizing the ultimate nature of reality.
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70 Topics: The four buddha bodies
Teaching on chapter 8 on the buddha bodies and a buddha's exalted activities.
View PostApproaching ordination
Information about the program and questions to consider about ordination.
View PostFreedom from cyclic existence
Commencing teaching from Chapter 11, describing five paths of the practitioners of sravaka vehicle.
View Post70 Topics: The four applications and Buddhahood
Overview of chapters 6 to 8: serial application, instantaneous application, and the resultant truth body.
View PostKarma in samsara and beyond
Completing teaching from Chapter 10, explaining the last two transcendental factors and covering the types…
View Post70 Topics: Peak application
Overview of chapter 5 on peak application and explanation of selected topics.
View PostHow do living beings exist?
A teaching on emptiness including an explanation of the prayer "Homage to Manjushri".
View PostCompassion observing the unapprehendable
A teaching on compassion observing the unapprehendable based on Chandrakirti’s homage to great compassion.
View PostRelating to the Buddha of wisdom
How to correctly view and relate to the deity and our spiritual mentor within tantric…
View PostCompassion observing phenomena
A teaching on compassion observing phenomena based on Chandrakirti’s homage to great compassion.
View PostGiving up our poor-quality view
Dismantling low self-esteem through Buddhist psychology and tantric techniques.
View PostCompassion observing sentient beings
Unpacking verse 3 of Chandrakirti’s "Homage to great compassion."
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