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Disturbing Emotions
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons – Literal Translation
I make prostration to the Three Rare Supreme Gems. “The Throwing Star Weapon Striking the Vital Point of the Foe.” I make prostration to forceful Yamantaka. (1) In the case of peacocks strutting in jungles of poisonous plants, although medicine gardens have been finely...
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons
Deconstructing Jealousy: Disturbing Emotions
Jealousy is universal. Our colleague gets a promotion and we think, “They don’t deserve that!” Our friend finds a great partner and we think, “What about me?” From time to time we all have these feelings. Here we look at the different types of jealousy, and how we can overcome...
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Strategies for Deconstructing Jealousy
The True Causes of the Sufferings of Change and Samsara
We looked at the unawareness of behavioral cause and effect and how that underlies our experience of unhappiness. Now we need to look at the second type of unawareness, a much deeper type of unawareness, which is unawareness of reality: how we exist, how others exist and how...
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Elaboration of “How Cognition of Emptiness Liberates Us”
Overcoming Disturbing Emotions and Helping Others
Chapters 5 to 8 Five: Indicating the Behavior of Bodhisattvas (1) There are no actions of the Buddhas that are not causes (for benefiting others). Even their breath is issued only for the sake of (acting as a) medicine for limited beings. (2) Just as the word “Lord of Death”...
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Four Hundred Verse Treatise
Wheel of Sharp Weapons – Poetic Rendering
The name of this work is The Wheel of Sharp Weapons Effectively Striking the Heart of the Foe. I pay heartfelt homage to you, Yamantaka; your wrath is opposed to the Great Lord of Death. [1] [notes by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey: see below] (1) In jungles of poisonous plants...
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons
Obstacles Preventing Positive Connections with Others
Review In our first session, we had a basic introduction to the topic. We saw that when we speak about refuge in Buddhism, we are not speaking about some passive act of turning to some higher power to protect us, but rather, we are taking certain measures to prevent our own...
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Refuge: Putting a Safe Direction & Meaning in Our Lives
Deconstructing Jealousy: No Special Me or Special You
Ultimately, jealousy comes not from others, but from thinking too much about ourselves. As we become super-attached to one particular aspect of our life, anyone else who is doing even slightly better in that area will be a target for our jealousy. Underlying all of this is...
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Strategies for Deconstructing Jealousy
Chittamatra, Svatantrika and Prasangika: The Self
Unawareness of How We Exist and Disturbing Emotions We are talking about the self, “me,” how we exist and how we establish that we exist. This is a very crucial question that is asked in Buddhism. When we are unaware of how we and everyone exists, when either we don’t know or...
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The Four Buddhist Tenet Systems Regarding the Self
Emotional Development of Compassion
Review We were speaking about the initial and intermediate level motivations in the lam-rim process for self-development on the spiritual path. And we saw that on the initial scope, or with the initial scope, we are aiming for better rebirths. We want to avoid worse rebirths...
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Joint Practice of Conventional and Deepest Bodhichittas
Wheel of Sharp Weapons: The Four Sections of the Text
Part One: Contrasting Bodhisattvas with Ordinary Beings Two Traditions for Developing Conventional Bodhichitta To destroy self-grasping and self-cherishing and to attain enlightenment, all mind training texts emphasize tonglen. This is the practice of giving and taking as...
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Overview of “Wheel of Sharp Weapons” – Dr. Berzin
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