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.
Latest Posts
View all posts in Venerable Thubten Chodron's teaching archive.
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Meditating on no self
Commentary on the way of meditating on no-self, how to prove omniscience, and beginning the…
View Post
The reasons that prove cessation
Commentary on the reasons that prove the truth of cessation.
View Post
Venerable Thubten Chodron Refuting a primal substance and independent self
Covering Verses 26-32 of Chapter 6, presenting Buddhist refutations of a primal substance and the…
View Post
More on seeds and latencies
Continuing teaching from Chapter 5, covering seeds and latencies of afflictions and seeds and latencies…
View Post
Afflictions, our real enemy
Finishing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how to see afflictions as our real enemy and…
View Post
Venerable Sangye Khadro Combining wisdom and compassion
Combining Chandrakirti's sevenfold reasoning with the three types of compassion.
View Post
Chandrakirti’s sevenfold reasoning
Meditation and teachings on Chandrakirti's sevenfold reasoning to realize emptiness.
View Post
Investigating the nature of reality
Review of key terms and applying the sevenfold reasoning to refute inherent existence.
View Post
Dependent arising and emptiness
How things arise dependently and how this relates to their emptiness of inherent existence.
View Post
Putting the dharma into practice
Covering Chapter 5 Verses 100-109, discussing the advice to dedicate our merits for the welfare…
View Post
Emptiness of the inherently existent self
Analyzing the third level of selflessness of persons.
View Post
“Letter to a Friend”: Verses 25-33 review
Commentary on verses about the perfections of concentration and wisdom. Also explanation of verses about…
View Post