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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Self 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…
View PostChandrakirti’s sevenfold reasoning
Meditation and teachings on Chandrakirti's sevenfold reasoning to realize emptiness.
View PostInvestigating the nature of reality
Review of key terms and applying the sevenfold reasoning to refute inherent existence.
View PostDependent arising and emptiness
How things arise dependently and how this relates to their emptiness of inherent existence.
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