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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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Chapter 2: Summary and discussion
Geshe Thabkhe outlines the discussion between proponents of truly existent pleasure and suffering and those…
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Chapter 1: Verses 1-8
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe begins the teachings on abandoning the belief in permanence by covering Verses…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Emptiness does not mean nothingness
A teaching on the difference between conventional and ultimate analysis of objects in order to…
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Apprehending objects and the impact of interrelatedness
Explaining the three ways of seeing objects. Showing how impermanent phenomena depend on each other…
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Why understanding the truth is needed
As long as we have the seeds of anger in our mind, we will find…
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Chapters 1-2: Verses 25-34
How the mistaken view of the body as a source of pleasure leads to dukkha,…
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Chapter 1: Verses 11-24
How practicing the Dharma will be of the greatest benefit at the time of death,…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Review of Chapter 1: Remembering death
Meditations on death. How remembering death give us an incentive to practice.
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Chapter 1: Verses 1-10
The benefits of reflecting on death, how to contemplate death with wisdom, and refuting misconceptions…
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Chapter 1: Abandoning belief in permanence
An introduction to the text "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" by Aryadeva, the study…
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Transforming the Complaining Mind
Venerable Chodron shows us how to change our thought using a personal example.
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Re-writing the 12 steps, 1-7
How to rely on refuge in the Three Jewels, our inner wisdom and compassion, and…
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