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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Venerable Thubten Chodron Karma and the wish for freedom
An explanation of karma. How to benefit ourselves and others by developing the ten virtues.
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Samsaric pleasures and developing concentration
Seeking pleasant feelings and avoiding pain are due to ignorance of the nature of self…
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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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Venerable Thubten Chonyi Contemplating death
How thinking about death can make our lives more meaningful and how Dharma practice can…
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Precious human life
The meaning, purpose and rarity of the freedoms and fortunes of a precious human life…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye The noble eightfold path
How the noble eightfold path is organized under the three higher trainings; practices related to…
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Venerable Thubten Tarpa The four noble truths
The importance of the four noble truths and how understanding the truth of suffering prepares…
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Verse 40-8: Discriminating wisdom
How we need discriminating wisdom in all aspects of our lives so that we can…
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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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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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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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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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