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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Venerable Thubten Chodron Boundless joy
How jealousy prevents us from developing joy and what we can do to overcome it.
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Does the world exist objectively?
How the self and phenomena appear to exist and an introduction to dependent arising.
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Various kinds of selflessness
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe describes the two kinds of selflessness of the person and of other…
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Should I ordain?
Indecision regarding ordination and the monastic mind motivation prayer, continued.
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Emptiness and partless particles
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains how realizing emptiness clears away fear and other distressing states.
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Authority, leaders and respect
Examining issues of authority and power in relation to our behavior and how we relate…
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Refuting modes of existence
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe continues through verses 57-69 which refute certain false modes of existence.
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Examining cause and effect
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches on the lack of inherent existence of cause and effect.
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Meditating on breath and overcoming hindrances
Explaining how one can meditate on the breath using Vasubandhu’s six steps for developing serenity,…
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Avoiding the two extremes
A teaching on how the Middle Way avoids the two extremes of nihilism and eternalism.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro 
The emptiness of an inherent self
A teaching on the emptiness of inherent existence covering verses 28-36 of the text.
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