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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Refuting the Vaisesikas and Samkhyas
Completion of commentary on the refutation of Vaisesika views and beginning of commentary on refutation…
View PostIdentifying anxiety
The path from worry to fear and anxiety, and the stories we tell ourselves along…
View PostA refutation of Vaisesika soteriology
Completion of commentary on the section "Self and Suffering” and beginning the section on “A…
View PostSelf and suffering, part 2 with questions and answers
Continued commentary on the section "Self and Suffering” and Venerable Thubten Chodron answers questions.
View PostTruth of the path
Completion of commentary on the truth of cessation, and beginning of commentary on the truth…
View PostPeace and sublimity
Commentary covers the second and third aspects of the truth of cessation: peace and sublimity,…
View PostMeditating on no self
Commentary on the way of meditating on no-self, how to prove omniscience, and beginning the…
View PostThe reasons that prove cessation
Commentary on the reasons that prove the truth of cessation.
View PostRefuting a primal substance and independent self
Covering Verses 26-32 of Chapter 6, presenting Buddhist refutations of a primal substance and the…
View PostMore on seeds and latencies
Continuing teaching from Chapter 5, covering seeds and latencies of afflictions and seeds and latencies…
View PostAfflictions, our real enemy
Finishing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how to see afflictions as our real enemy and…
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