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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Exploring Monastic Life 2009

The Greater Discourse on the “Lion’s Roar Sutt...

Don't waste your time practicing ascetiscism, but do develop the fortitude to practice. Making the…

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Taming the Mind

Contemplating death

How thinking about death can make our lives more meaningful and how Dharma practice can…

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Taming the Mind

Precious human life

The meaning, purpose and rarity of the freedoms and fortunes of a precious human life…

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Taming the Mind

The noble eightfold path

How the noble eightfold path is organized under the three higher trainings; practices related to…

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Cover of Taming the Mind.
Taming the Mind

The four noble truths

The importance of the four noble truths and how understanding the truth of suffering prepares…

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Taming the Mind

Mind is the creator of our experience

The essence of Buddhist philosophy and psychology together with practical tools for immediate implementation in…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 40-1: Faith in the Three Jewels

What faith means in a Buddhist context, seeing the good qualities in something that is…

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Wisdom

Emptiness and the object of negation, part 2

Q & A focusing on taking away the appearance of an object or person.

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Wisdom

Emptiness and the object of negation, part 3

How the sense of an "I" appears to us yet cannot be found when investigating.

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Wisdom

Emptiness and the object of negation, part 1

How to identify the object of negation by taking away the appearance of something or…

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2008-09

Wisdom, renunciation, and attachment

A discussion covering the topics of great and profound wisdom, emptiness and attachment, how vipassana…

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