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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Meditation

Developing equanimity

How to meditate on equanimity as the prelude to developing loving kindness and compassion.

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Meditation

Compassion

The three causes of omniscience: compassion, bodhicitta, and skillful means.

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Meditation

Hearing, thinking, and meditating

Teaching on a text that was written in response to a debate in Tibet in…

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness of phenomena

Teaching on the last of the five hindrances and the seven awakening factors.

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Mindfulness

Conventional nature of the mind

A meditation on mindfulness of the conventional nature of the mind and an explanation of…

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness of the mind

Teaching on the mindfulness of mind and different ways of meditating on mindfulness of mind.

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Wisdom

Selflessness of phenomena

A teaching on the selflessness of phenomena and how to investigate an object.

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness of feelings and mind

Teaching on the second and third establishment of mindfulness; feelings and mind.

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Wisdom

Dependent arising

How dependent arising helps to understand emptiness.

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness of feelings

Teaching on the second establishment of mindfulness; mindfulness of feelings.

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Attachment and anger

Commenting on Verses 66-74 of Chapter 6, discussing the relationship between attachment and anger and…

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Wisdom

Analyzing the basis of self

Characteristics of belief in a self-sufficient substantially existent self and meditations on selflessness and emptiness.

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