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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On Cultivating Wisdom

The power of precepts

An incarcerated person considers the value of taking precepts.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Unborn clear light mind

Comparing how the primordially pure mind is understood in the New Translation School (clear light…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Primordially pure awareness

Explaining the meaning of "primordially pure" and our need to interweave the understanding of emptiness…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Rigpa

Explaining rigpa, continuing the teaching from the section "Afflictive Mental States and the Nature of…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Afflictions and the nature of the mind

Explaining how the mind is different from mental factors, teaching from the next section, “Afflictive…

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Science and Buddhism

Contestable times

A conversation on the nature of time with a theoretical physicist, a philosopher, and a…

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Wisdom

Three levels of wisdom: Hearing, thinking, and medit...

The three wisdoms establish a foundation, refine understanding, and make the Dharma part of us.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Excellent qualities can be enhanced

Explaining how it is possible to cultivate the mind’s excellent qualities limitlessly in the section…

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