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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Cover of Taming the Mind.
Taming the Mind

Colleagues and clients

Bringing our practice into the workplace to transform habitual ways of relating to others.

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Seven-point Mind Training

An inherently existent self

How to investigate if the self is inherently different from the aggregates and steps in…

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Seven-point Mind Training

The self and the aggregates

Selflessness of persons: how to investigate if the self is inherently one with the aggregates.

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Seven-point Mind Training

Review: Object of negation

A review of the commentary on identifying the object of negation: the reasoning used to…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Establishing selflessness

Three mistaken approaches to determining selflessness and the order for establishing selflessness.

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Six perfections and three higher trainings

What makes the three higher trainings higher--rather than just ordinary--is the long-term motivation of attaining…

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Seven-point Mind Training

The root of samsara

How things and self are merely imputed by thought and how ignorance is the root…

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Taming the Mind

Friendship

The importance of cultivating positive relationships. How we can love others without being attached to…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Review: Teachings on emptiness

A review of the beginning of the section on cultivating ultimate bodhicitta: creating the causes…

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