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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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 95: The wisest amongst learned beings

Knowing what to practice and what to abandon on the spiritual path makes us wise.

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 93: Elders with wisdom

The Buddhist perspective on those to whom we can turn for guidance, and who are…

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Love and Self-esteem

Wisdom, love, and hatred

Verses from Buddhist scriptures on how to overcome the obstacles to cultivating love.

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Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Chapter 1: Upper rebirth and highest good

An introduction to the text in the context of Nagarjuna's other treatises on the Middle…

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Working with Emotions

Helping angry people

We cannot control other people; we can only accept where they are at right now.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 12: Quiz review part 2

Review and discussion of questions on refuting wrong views. The second part covers questions 9-16…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Who am I?

Investigating the superficial way that our self and things appear to exist to arrive at…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 12: Quiz review part 1

Review and discussion of questions on refuting wrong views. The first part of the review…

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Buddha statue.
Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Quiz: Aryadeva’s 400 Stanzas, Chapter 12

Quiz questions for a review of chapter 12 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

The bodhisattva precepts: Part 3 and the six perfect...

The Bodhisattva precepts on the ethical conduct of benefiting others. The importance of practicing the…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 16: Verses 395-400

The final refutations of true existence and the completion of the commentary on Aryadeva's 400…

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