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 Review: Establishments of mindfulness in Shantideva
A review of the final quiz on the four establishments of mindfulness.
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Quiz: Shantideva’s establishments of mindfulness
Quiz questions based on the teachings on the establishments of mindfulness from Chapter 9 of…
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Following the Buddha’s advice
Selflessness of feelings and mind with regards to the establishments of mindfulness.
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Buddhist traditions: finding what suits us
Similarities of the various traditions and the principal teachings common to all.
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Our craving for feelings and contact
Examining how our feelings arise dependently gives us an objective view of how they rule…
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Pleasant and unpleasant feelings
We are constantly motivated by attachment and aversion to feelings, which causes us to try…
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Analyzing the body
Analyzing the body helps to see how it does not exist inherently but does exist…
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Different ways of meditating on the four establishments
How the bodhisattvas' way of meditating on the four establishments differs from that of hearers…
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Sravasti Abbey Monastics Review: Meditating on the mind
Members of the Abbey community go over questions 5-9 of the second quiz on the…
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Review: Mindfulness and wisdom
Members of the Abbey community go over the first four questions of the second quiz…
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Emptiness of the body
The subtle understanding of the four establishments of mindfulness as taught by Shantideva, beginning with…
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Reducing arrogance, cultivating humility
Arrogance, which manifests in many ways, can become a hindrance to learning.
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