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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Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

Letting go of identities

Exploring how meditation on emptiness and bodhicitta provides a way to let go of our…

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Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

Ultimate and conventional truths

Exploring ultimate and conventional truths and teaching on how to avoid the two extremes of…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

More debate practice

The Abbey community practices the debates they wrote with each other.

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Role models

Teaching from the last two sections of Chapter 9, on memorization, debate, and role models.

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Practicing the defender’s answers

Helping the class practice different answers that the defender can give in response to statements…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Debate in action

Leading short debates going through the five answers a defender can give to a challenger.

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Faith, purification, and merit

Continuing the teaching from Chapter 9, 'Tools for the Path', exploring the ideas of faith,…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

The defender’s response

Explaining the various responses a defender can give to the challenger in a debate, and…

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Two aims and four reliances

Continuing Chapter 8 “A Systematic Approach,” covering the sections “Value of the Stages of the…

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