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Emptiness
160 Articles
What Emptiness or Voidness Negates
Question about Mediation of Disputes at Work When we try to apply this principle of looking at the validity of others’ points of view, particularly in a work situation when you’re a manager, sometimes we can be overwhelmed by the view of the workers and it’s hard to actually...
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Elaboration of "Dependent Arising: Avoiding the Two Extremes"
Incorrect Views of the Conventional Truth of Things
Chapter Five: Indicating the Behavior of Bodhisattvas (5.1) 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. Chapter five deals with indicating the...
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Overview of “Four Hundred Verse Treatise” – Dr. Berzin
Tantra: A Union of Method and Wisdom
Review We were speaking about gaining conviction in the efficiency of the tantra path so that we can engage in it with our full hearts. In order to gain that conviction, it’s necessary to understand why tantra is more efficient than sutra and how it actually works so that we...
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Elaboration of the Efficiency of Tantra over Sutra
The Need for Understanding Emptiness for Tonglen
Key Elements of Deepest Bodhichitta We have spoken about how to develop deepest bodhichitta, and we’ve seen that it is very important and helpful for being able to do the practice of tonglen, giving and taking. Now, we are ready to discuss the development of relative,...
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The Two Bodhichittas in “Seven Point Mind Training” – Dr. Berzin
Mind Training for a Medium and Advanced Lam-rim Scope
Verses 8 through 37 Reaffirming Our Motivation and Review Look at all the people around you, whether they are close or distant, rich or poor, all of us are equal in wanting happiness and no suffering. The best way to accomplish this is the practice of Dharma. We have fully...
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Commentary on “37 Bodhisattva Practices” – The Dalai Lama
The Second Two Principal Paths: Bodhichitta and Correct View of Emptiness
Generating a Bodhichitta Aim Earlier, we saw that once genuine, pure renunciation is generated in our mental continuum, that is the point when we are truly on the Dharma path. This is the start of the path. We may have heard about the Mahayana and Hinayana paths and might even...
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Commentary on “The Three Principal Aspects of the Path” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II
Tantra: Special Basis & Mind for Focusing on Emptiness
The Benefits of Taking the Body of a Buddha-Figure as the Basis for Voidness in Tantra The next point in our four-point analysis of why tantra is more efficient than sutra is that there’s a special basis for voidness. When we focus on voidness, voidness is the total absence...
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Elaboration of the Efficiency of Tantra over Sutra
Categories and Implicative & Non-implicative Negations
Fine Points about Categories There was an interesting question Ulla brought up this morning that I thought about. That is: how do we know a double negative? We were speaking in terms of specifiers. How do you know that something is not anything other than itself? Let’s say...
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Negation Phenomena: How to Focus on Emptiness
Using Blissful Awareness as the Cognizer of Emptiness
Review We were discussing the various methods used in Buddhism to strengthen the evolving Buddha-nature factor that we identified within the network of good qualities, namely our innate joy, our ability to experience things with happiness. As you recall, in order to strengthen...
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The Role of Happiness in Sutra and Tantra
Doctrinally Based & Automatically Arising Impossible “Me”
Review We have been speaking about the importance of understanding voidness, whether we speak in terms of self-voidness or other-voidness, and we’ve seen that it is necessary for overcoming and achieving a true stopping of the true sufferings that we all experience and the...
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Main Points of Self-Voidness and Other-Voidness
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