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 Relying upon Tara the liberator
Why Tara is a reliable source of refuge, and how the question of gender becomes…
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Cultivating love and kindness
A talk on working with disturbing emotions based on the book "An Open-Hearted Life."
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Buddhahood and individual liberation
Responding to a viewer's question on how individual liberation fits into the path to buddhahood.
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Verse 107: The legs and eyes of the path
How the practices on the method and wisdom sides of the path correspond to the…
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Appreciating our opportunities
A motivation on appreciating all the causes and conditions for our precious human rebirth, and…
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Serenity meditation and the four essential points
The remedies to laxity and excitement, and the nine stages of meditative stabilization.
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Meditative stability and wisdom
How the last two of the six far-reaching practices lead to the abilities used to…
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Verse 104: The most amazing drama
Should we trust our senses? How to view the world that appears to our senses…
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Verse 103: The freedom of realizing emptiness
The importance of learning the teachings on emptiness to create the causes to free the…
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Verse 102: The sparkling mirror
How studying the lamrim and doing retreat helps us to cultivate concentration, which contributes to…
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Chasing rainbows
What actually is chocolate? When we look closely at the objects we are attached to…
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Chapter 1: Verses 4-9
To generate wisdom a series of upper rebirths is needed. Upper rebirth requires confidence in…
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