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Venerable Thubten Chodron 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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Chapter 15: Refuting truly existent characteristics
How doe the sprout arise from the seed? When does the seed become a sprout?…
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