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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Cover of Taming the Mind.
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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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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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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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 31: Seeing someone suffering

How compassion differs from personal distress and how to cultivate compassion without falling to apathy.…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

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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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 27: Empty containers

Transforming the appearance of an empty container into the wish that all beings be empty…

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