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Emptiness
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Refuting Self-Established Existence and Final Words of Advice
Assertions and Refutations of Self-Established Existence The next verse states: (IX.5) Functional phenomena are seen by the (common) world and conceptualized to be absolutely existent, and not like an illusion. It’s in this regard that there’s dispute between the yogis and the...
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Studying Shantideva’s Presentation of Emptiness – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
Analysis of Emptiness for Mahamudra Meditation
We have now covered the meditation on the superficial or conventional nature of the mind or mental activity. Now we’re ready to look a little bit at the meditation on the deepest nature of the mind. The Two Natures of the Mind or Two Truths about the Mind When we talk...
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Commentary on “Root Text for Mahamudra” – Dr. Berzin
Gelugpa, Nyingma and Jonangpa on Other-Voidness
Other-Voidness Is an Implicative Negation Dr. Berzin: I’d like to ask you about other-voidness, zhentong (gzhan-stong). His Holiness the Dalai Lama acknowledges the Jonangpas as one of the proper Tibetan Buddhist traditions, but don’t the Jonangpas say that the deepest truth...
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Differences between Gelugpa and Nyingma Concerning Emptiness in Prasangika
Purity of the Mental Continuum and the Advanced Scope
Unawareness, Disturbing Emotions and Karmic Aftermath Have No Beginning We have already established that each of us has an individual mental continuum that has no beginning or end, and that we’ll continue to take rebirth. Without beginning, our mental continuum has also been...
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Self-Transformation through the Lam-rim Graded Stages
Emptiness of All Phenomena
We’ve discussed the impossible ways of existing of a person and voidness, or emptiness, which is the absence of something corresponding to these impossible ways. If we wish to go deeper, then we need to discuss the impossible ways of existing of all phenomena, which would...
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Incorrect Consideration and Emptiness
The Refutation “Neither One Nor Many”
Review: First and Second Point of the Four-Point Analysis First Point: Identifying the Object to Be Refuted We have discussed the first two points of the four-point analysis. The first point was identifying and recognizing within ourselves the object to be refuted. In order...
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Refuting the False Me Experiencing the Four Noble Truths
Prasangika Variants and Stages of Cognition of Voidness
Understanding Different Interpretations and Analysis in Buddhist Schools We have presented the Sautrantika way of enumerating the different ways of knowing. As we go deeper in our studies we find that there are certain variants to be found. For instance, in Asanga’s...
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Elaboration of “Lorig: Ways of Knowing”
Emptiness and Inspiration in Mahamudra Meditation
The Nonfindability of the Mind We often read in various presentations about voidness that when you search for the conventional “me” or all these sort of things you can’t actually find it. When we search for the mind we can’t find it. It’s important to understand that we’re...
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Commentary on “Root Text for Mahamudra” – Dr. Berzin
The Self and Karma: Guilt versus Responsibility
The Self in Relationship to Our Discussion of Karma Defining the Self or “Me” Now, we can begin our discussion of the self, “me,” and the relation of the self with what we have been discussing. We’ve seen that all the various components of karmic cause and effect during an...
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Elaboration of “Karma: Who’s to Blame?”
Mahamudra: The Lack of a True Identity of the Self
Removing the Obstacles Preventing Liberation and Enlightenment The Fourth Panchen Lama now continues with the method for gaining a decisive understanding of the deepest devoid nature of mind in accordance with the intentions of Chandrakirti and other masters of the...
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A Discourse on “Autocommentary to ‘A Root Text for Mahamudra’” – The Dalai Lama
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