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 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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Venerable Thubten Chodron 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 1
How to identify the object of negation by taking away the appearance of something or…
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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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Wisdom, renunciation, and attachment
A discussion covering the topics of great and profound wisdom, emptiness and attachment, how vipassana…
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Verse 31: Seeing someone suffering
How compassion differs from personal distress and how to cultivate compassion without falling to apathy.…
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Verse 30-2: The bliss of a buddha
The meaning of the term "the bliss of the Buddha." Considering the removal of the…
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Verse 27: Empty containers
Transforming the appearance of an empty container into the wish that all beings be empty…
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