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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The purity of emptiness
Explaining the emptiness of afflictive mind and the emptiness of purified mind, reviewing the section,…
View PostYogis and common people
The different understandings of the two truths possessed by those who have direct perception of…
View PostCultivating excellent qualities
Describing the three factors that make the cultivation of excellent qualities, reviewing the sections, "Excellent…
View PostThe potential for liberation
Explaining the obscurations to the mind and factors for liberation, reviewing the sections, "The Mind's…
View PostUsing the subtlest clear light mind on the path
Explaining how tantra manifests the subtlest mind-wind and uses it to accumulate merit and wisdom…
View PostLevels of mind
Explaining what it means to say that the innate clear light is the mind is…
View PostConventional and ultimate analysis
Explaining how things are not findable under conventional and ultimate analysis, continuing the section "Equality…
View PostEquality of samsara and nirvana
Describing the meaning of "one taste in emptiness", beginning the section, "The Equality of Samsara…
View PostThe object of negation
Correctly identifying the object of negation is essential for the meditation on emptiness to be…
View PostDormant and manifest consciousnesses
Explaining dormant and manifest aspects of rigpa and subtlest clear light mind, completing the section…
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