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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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Taking the bodhisattva ethical restraint

Encouraging to create causes and conditions for us to benefit others in worldly and spiritual…

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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

Discerning virtuous from nonvirtuous actions

Completing "The Weight of Karma", teaching "Discerning Virtuous from Nonvirtuous Actions", and starting "Karma and…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Different kinds of refuge

Teaching on the different kinds of refuge – causal and resultant, and final and provisional…

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Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2020

Selflessness of mind and phenomena

Commentary on Chapter 9 of "Engaging in the Bodhisattvas Deeds" refuting the inherent existence of…

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Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2020

The selflessness of feelings

Commentary on verses from Chapter 9 of “Engaging in the Bodhisattva’s Deeds” about refuting the…

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Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2020

The selflessness of persons

Why selflessness does not undermine karma or invalidate compassion. The three levels of selflessness of…

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Green Tara tsa tsa on the Chenrezig Hall altar with offerings.
Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2020

The thieves of wrong views

The five different kinds of wrong views and answers to questions about how emptiness eliminates…

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Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2020

Where is the self?

Refuting an inherently existent self through analysis of the body and mind. Also refuting the…

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Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2020

Conventional and ultimate existence

Further explanation of ultimate and conventional truths and ultimate and conventional existence.

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Green Tara tsa tsa on the Chenrezig Hall altar with offerings.
Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2020

The eight dangers

Teaching on first four of the eight dangers we ask Tara to protect us from—arrogance,…

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Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2020

The two truths

The relationship between the two truths—conventional and ultimate—and the three criteria for conventional existence.

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Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2020

The perfection of wisdom

Beginning the commentary on Chapter 9, The Perfection of Wisdom, from "Engaging in the Bodhisattva's…

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