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 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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Chapter 1: Verses 2-3
Because a series of good rebirths provides the foundation for liberation and awakening, the causes…
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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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Verse 93: Elders with wisdom
The Buddhist perspective on those to whom we can turn for guidance, and who are…
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Wisdom, love, and hatred
Verses from Buddhist scriptures on how to overcome the obstacles to cultivating love.
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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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Helping angry people
We cannot control other people; we can only accept where they are at right now.
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Venerable Thubten Tsultrim Review of the intermediate scope practices of the la...
Review of the topics and practices in common with the intermediate scope practitioner.
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Venerable Thubten Semkye 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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