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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Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) The purity of the mind
Reviewing Chapter 12, "The Mind and Its Potential", describing the nature of the mind and…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Emptiness, its nature, its purpose, and its meaning
What it means to say things are empty but arise dependently. Also explanation of the…
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The importance of realizing the ultimate nature
Why realizing emptiness is essential and the stages we go through to realize emptiness.
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Buddhahood depends on sentient beings
Reviewing Chapter 12, "The Mind and Its Potential", describing how Buddhas depends on sentient beings…
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Five characteristics of dependent arising
Teaching on the five characteristics of dependently arisen composite phenomena.
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We create the causes for joy and sorrow
Teaching on how we are responsible for creating the causes for joy and sorrow.
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How to seek reality by means of dependent arising
The Buddha’s motivation for teaching dependent origination and the two kinds of ignorance.
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Wrong views of emptiness
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe outlines and refutes various misinterpretations of the Buddha’s teaching on emptiness.
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Khenpo Yeshi Lhundup Avoiding the two extremes
The importance of avoiding the extremes of nihilism and absolutism.
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The importance of understanding dependent arising
Teaching on the importance of dependent origination and its relationship to emptiness.
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Definitive teachings
The importance of wisdom plus Nagarjuna's contributions in understanding definitive teachings.
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The sixth ground, the Manifest
Exploring the profound understanding of a bodhisattva on the sixth ground.
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