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 Verse 89: The supreme possession
Integrating the Dharma into our lives is the wisest way to support our decision-making process.
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Verse 88: Seeds of joy
How purification and making merit support all aspects of our Dharma practice.
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Chapter 16: Verses 383-394
Chipping away at self-grasping. Further refutations of arguments positing non-existence and inherent existence.
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Chapter 16: Refuting remaining counter-arguments
Refuting the remaining misconceptions of inherent existence and emptiness, particularly the wrong view that emptiness…
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Chapter 15: Verses 369-375
Refuting inherent existence by examining the process of arising and that which is in the…
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Chapter 15: Verses 361-368
The credit card refutation. Using the example of a plastic credit card to refute an…
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Verse 77: Freedom from fear
How those who are foolish fear that which does not need to be feared, and…
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Meditating on impermanence
How meditating on impermanence can help us to understand emptiness.
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Chapter 15: Verses 359-360
For a complete and correct view it is important to bring emptiness and dependent arising…
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Kenneth Mondal 
Chapter 15: Verses 354-358
Refuting arising, abiding and ceasing as being truly existent characteristics of objects.
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The middle way
How dependent arising is the meaning of emptiness, and dependent arising and emptiness are also…
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