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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Establishing selflessness
Investigating the way things appear and how they actually exist.
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Three levels of dependent arising
The three levels of dependent arising and why it's important to cultivate this wisdom.
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Perfections of concentration and wisdom
Examining the three types of meditative stabilization and the four types of wisdom.
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Complementary nature of the perfections
Examining how each of the six far-reaching practices work together to complement and support each…
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Ethics and the other perfections
How the far-reaching attitude of ethics is practiced in each of the other far-reaching attitudes.
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The six far-reaching attitudes
An overview of the six far-reaching practices, also known as the six paramitas: generosity, ethics,…
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Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 30-36
Overcoming obstacles to the far-reaching attitudes of wisdom and the ethics of benefitting others.
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Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 23-30
Overcoming obstacles to the far-reaching attitudes of joyous effort, concentration, and wisdom.
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Commitments of aspiring bodhicitta
Generating the two types of bodhicitta: aspiring and engaging. How to protect our bodhicitta from…
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Meditation on the Buddha
Step-by-step meditation on the Buddha. This includes reciting verses and contemplating good qualities you aspire…
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Dependent arising: Links 4-12
A review of the first links and a discussion of the remaining 12 links of…
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Dependent arising: Links 1-3
Superstition obscures the right view and brings forth a wrong fantasy view. It is the…
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