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Emptiness
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Truly Established Existence in the Tenet Systems
Review In our discussion of self-voidness in the context of the Gelug assertions, we saw that we can speak about impossible ways of existing with regard to persons and with regard to all phenomena. First, we focus on understanding that there is a self that is not to be...
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Main Points of Self-Voidness and Other-Voidness
Validly Knowable Objects Are Not Self-Established
Review We’ve been speaking about conventional objects, which are things that can be validly known as this or that: as a teacher, as a student, as a given activity such as learning or teaching, as a given object such as a table or a chair, and as an adjective as well, such as...
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Elaboration of "Dependent Arising: Avoiding the Two Extremes"
Integrating Our Life: The Relevance of Emptiness
We have been looking at methods for integrating the various aspects of our lives. We’ve seen that in order to deal with the various things in our lives and in order to follow the spiritual path in a more whole-hearted way, it’s very important to have a clear idea of all the...
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Exercises for Integrating the Aspects of Our Life
The Determination to Be Free and Developing a Bodhichitta Aim
The Determination to Be Free, the First of the Three Principal Aspects of the Path In Buddhism, we speak of three principal aspects of the path: the determination to be free, usually translated as “renunciation,” a vast enlightening aim of bodhichitta, and a profound,...
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Explanation of “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
Renunciation of Clinging to Self-Established Existence
The next level of determination to be free is renunciation of clinging to self-established existence and having our main interest instead be in voidness, emptiness. What a Buddha Perceives To understand this, let me explain a little bit about what a Buddha actually perceives...
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The Significance of Renunciation on the Buddhist Path
Training in Higher Discriminating Awareness
Training in Higher Discriminating Awareness Removing the Obscurations to Liberation and Enlightenment The discussion of training in higher discriminating awareness starts with the second half of verse 41: (41b) However, if you have failed to apply yourself to far-reaching...
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Commentary on “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” – Dr. Berzin
Mahamudra: Meditation on Mind’s Void Nature
Going Beyond a Settled Mind: Vipashyana Once you have gained a stilled and settled state of mind of shamatha, one that is held with great flexibility of mind and exhilaration and ecstasy, just to have this by itself, this single-pointedness of a stilled and settled state of...
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Commentary on “Root Text for Mahamudra” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
Summary of the Nyingma Prasangika Position Regarding Emptiness
The Relation between the Object of Refutation in Voidness and the Ease of Understanding Voidness as Dependent Arising Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II: [In the context of cognition of conventional truth] because there are cognizing minds (shes-pa), that’s why there are objects...
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Differences between Gelugpa and Nyingma Concerning Emptiness in Prasangika
Meditation on the Emptiness of Self and All Phenomena
The Great Compassion of Bodhichitta When we think of the most kind and compassionate Buddha Shakyamuni, we think of his great qualities and his amazing deeds, and specifically of all the teachings he gave purely to benefit all others. Among all these teachings, when we think...
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Commentary on “Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun” – The Dalai Lama
Subsequent Attainment in Mahamudra Meditation
Recognizing Anything to Which Mind Gives Rise The Fourth Panchen Lama next explains how to cultivate seeing everything to be like illusion with the deep awareness we subsequently attain after we arise from total absorption on voidness. We cultivate this during our so-called...
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Commentary on “A Root Text for Mahamudra” – The Dalai Lama
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