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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 Chapter 2: Verses 115-126
The problems of teaching emptiness to those who are unsuitable vessels. Creating the causes for…
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Chapter 2: Verses 109-114
Using the metaphor of the magician casting a spell to show how things appear truly…
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Chapter 2: Verses 101-108
Why the Buddha explained selflessness in different ways to different audiences and why he did…
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Chapter 1: Verses 93-100
Distinguishing between inherent existence and conventional existence, and refuting the true existence of emptiness and…
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Chapter 1: Verses 86-92
Refuting inherent existence by examining mutual dependence. Looking at the mutual dependence of the four…
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Chapter 1: Verses 82-86
Refuting the inherent existence of the person through the sevenfold analysis. Refuting the inherent existence…
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Chapter 1: Verses 81-82
Refuting an inherently existent self by analyzing the relationship between the person and the aggregates,…
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Chapter 1: Verse 80
How persons and things exist by being merely designated by conception but still exist conventionally.…
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Chapter 1: Verses 76-80
How emptiness and dependent arising are mutually established, and how to posit that conventional and…
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Chapter 1: Verses 69-75
The different ways to understand dependent arising to refute inherent existence—dependence on parts, causal dependence,…
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Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) Meditation: Space-like emptiness
Geshe Dadul Namgyal leads a guided meditation on space-like emptiness.
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