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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Liberation and tenet schools
Verses 45-49 on what liberation means, the extremes of existence and non-existence, and distinctions between…
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Integrating emptiness
Integrating the teachings in emptiness and identifying the object of negation, followed by some advice…
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Understanding emptiness, attaining liberation
How to attain liberation by understanding emptiness, and explaining nihilism and wrong views.
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Wisdom and compassion
Seeing the kindness of sentient beings and understanding that our enlightenment depends on them.
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Enlightening the path in our hearts
Are you dealing with hard situations in life or having difficulties with others? Daily meditation…
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Existence of person and obscurations
Comparing the different understanding of selflessness of persons in various Buddhist philosophical schools. This fortunate…
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Mindfully transforming our minds
An excerpt from the book "Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path."
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The precepts in modern culture
Keeping precepts in our present-day culture and relating to others in a healthy way.
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The “Ratnapala Sutta”
Buddha's disciple foremost in faith who, with pure motivation, looked with wisdom at cyclic existence…
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