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Disturbing Emotions
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The Five Aggregates and the Five Buddha Wisdoms
Review In the first session, we started our discussion of the five types of deep awareness. These refer to Buddha-nature factors, which we all have that enable us to achieve the state of a Buddha – the various Buddha Bodies. We discussed how we can work with these on a basis,...
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Meditations for Recognizing the Five Buddha Wisdoms
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
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
Rational Development of Compassion
Review In our last session we presented the first stages in the process for working ourselves up to developing bodhichitta. We saw that the first type of equanimity that we cultivate is the equanimity that tries to rid ourselves, at least provisionally, of gross disturbing...
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Joint Practice of Conventional and Deepest Bodhichittas
Deconstructing Jealousy: Concepts Color Relationships
Questions Is There an Inherent Right to Happiness? Do beings have an inherent right to happiness? Do parents have a responsibility to take care of their children and love them as much as possible? I would say yes, if we make the decision to become a parent. However I can’t...
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Strategies for Deconstructing Jealousy
Practice after Formal Tonglen Meditation
The Three Objects and the Three Poisonous Attitudes The text continues with what we do after formal meditation on the tonglen giving and taking practice for developing relative bodhichitta. It says: (In regard to) the three objects, (take) the three poisonous attitudes and...
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Extensive Explanation of “Seven Point Mind Training” – Dr. Berzin
Fear in a Student-Teacher Relationship
Fear of "A Breach of Guru-Devotion" Almost every classical text on the disciple-mentor relationship includes a section on the hellish suffering that follows from what is usually translated as "a breach of guru-devotion." The material derives mostly from Ashvaghosha's vivid...
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Unhealthy Relationships with Spiritual Teachers
The Twelve Links: Perpetuating and Stopping Rebirth
The next three links – eight, nine, and ten – are the causal links that actualize (bsgrub-byed-kyi yan-lag). They are what activate the karmic aftermath of throwing karma in the moments preceding death so that the karmic results will actualize. Thus, they serve as the...
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The Twelve Links: An In-Depth Analysis
Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Tonglen Done with the Three Poisons
Contrasting Bodhisattvas with Ordinary Beings The text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons, begins with Dharmarakshita contrasting bodhisattvas with ordinary beings. Bodhisattvas practice tonglen – giving and taking – taking from others the three poisonous disturbing states of mind or...
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Overview of “Wheel of Sharp Weapons” – Dr. Berzin
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