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 Emptiness, its nature, its purpose, and its meaning
What it means to say things are empty but arise dependently. Also explanation of the…
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The importance of realizing the ultimate nature
Why realizing emptiness is essential and the stages we go through to realize emptiness.
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Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) Buddhahood depends on sentient beings
Reviewing Chapter 12, "The Mind and Its Potential", describing how Buddhas depends on sentient beings…
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Equality of samsara and nirvana
Completing teaching from Chapter 12, explaining various meanings of "equality of samsara and nirvana" and…
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Excellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
Continuing teaching from Chapter 12, explaining how it it is possible to develop positive mental…
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Transforming intellectual knowledge into compassiona...
How to apply the Buddha's teachings when the rubber hits the road and our Dharma…
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Is liberation possible?
Continuing teaching from Chapter 12, describing three reasons that make liberation possible
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Transforming intellectual knowledge into compassiona...
Buddhism is full of lists—but how do we put our intellectual knowledge of the Dharma…
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The mind and its potential
Completing teaching Chapter 11, "Freedom From Cyclic Existence" and commencing Chapter 12, "Mind and Its…
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The two obscurations
Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, covering afflictive obscurations and cognitive obscurations.
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Bodhisattvas’ path to awakening
Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, explaining the five paths of the bodhisattva vehicle.
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