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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Volume 8 Realizing the Profound View

Gaining the correct view

Refuting common misconceptions and using critical analysis to understand emptiness.

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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

Cultivating mundane insight

Introducing the seven preparations and the seven mental contemplations of cultivating mundane insight, where one…

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The opportunity to realize emptiness

The concluding verses of dedication and an aspiration to practice in order to benefit others.

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More Dharma questions with Dr. Alex Berzin

Answering more questions from the audience on topics discussed in previous talks and presented in…

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Contradictions between modes of existence

Gratitude for the teaching of emptiness that brings about the undoing of all faults.

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The medicine of the Dharma

Different ways to posit the dependent arising and emptiness of phenomena.

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Subtler levels of dependent arising

The connection between emptiness and an understanding of dependent arising.

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The voidness of appearance

How different Buddhist schools view the self in relation to the aggregates.

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Teachings by Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Higher status and definite goodness

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains the emptiness of uncompounded space and discusses the five aggregates.

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