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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Chapter 11: Summarizing verse
Past, present, and future relate to each other as cause and result. How the continuity…
View PostChapter 11: Refuting truly existent time
How do the past, present, and future exist? How can things be impermanent yet have…
View PostChapter 10: Verses 248-250
How we avoid the extremes of permanence and annihilation by seeing that things change moment…
View PostChapter 10: Verse 247
Considering how things are impermanent but do not go completely out of existence. Everything has…
View PostVerse 16: The load of contaminated aggregates
Taking rebirth with polluted aggregates is a load that weighs us down and only causes…
View PostChapter 10: Verses 236-246
The untenable consequences of positing a permanent creator or soul, refuting non-Buddhist views of a…
View PostChapter 10: Refuting misconceptions of the self
Refuting erroneous views of an unchanging self, both innate and acquired. How to use awareness…
View PostMiddle way school and focusing your mind
What the self is and is not. Consciousness can be valid and mistaken at the…
View PostDependent arising and emptiness
An understanding of cause and effect is necessary for and compatible with the realization of…
View PostChapters 9-10: Verses 224-226
When investigated, the strong feeling of a personal self and identity cannot be found, and…
View PostVerse 4: The darkness of ignorance
Ignorance of how things exist and ignorance of karma and its effects are like dark…
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