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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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Review 1 of Chapter 8: Verses 176-183
This first review on Chapter 8 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses…
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To choose or not to choose
A retreat helps a student to see that he has the freedom to choose to…
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Review of Chapter 6: Part 2
Part 2 of a review of Chapter 6 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle…
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Chapter 9: Verses 205-217
Refuting views held by non-Buddhist schools and lower Buddhist schools.
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Chapter 9: Refuting permanent functional phenomena
The explanation of ultimate truths begins with verses on the refutation of true existence by…
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Eight verses of mind training: Verses 3-6
Explaining different afflictive emotions and their respective antidotes. Using difficult people and situations for our…
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Chapters 8-9: Verses 200-201
An explanation of the three kinds of compassion, dependent arising, making ourselves suitable vessels, and…
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Chapter 8: Verses 197-200
The relationship between realizing emptiness and generating bodhicitta, and why the end of afflictions is…
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Chapter 8: Self and emptiness
A discussion session that touches on the self-centered thought, how self-grasping ignorance produced afflictions, and…
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How renunciation brings happiness
Shares a message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche to the International Mahayana Institute sangha, and speaks…
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Chapter 8: Verses 195-196
How to meditate on emptiness, and the importance of reflection and meditation on the teachings.
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