Grasping for Impossible Existence

The First of Three Layers of the Impossible “Me” to Be Refuted There are three layers of impossible “me” that we need to refute. We can differentiate more layers, but here we’ll just deal with the main three. Each progressive layer is deeper than the one before it. We project...

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...

Grasping for a Self-Sufficiently Knowable “Me” Can Also Be Doctrinally Based First, let me add one further point. While almost all the Indian Buddhist tenet systems say this grasping for a self-sufficiently knowable “me” is just automatically-arising, according to Prasangika...

The Prasangika-Madhyamaka presentation of how to achieve a union of method and voidness both in sutra and tantra.

By applying methods for developing patience, we can avoid the problems that anger causes.

An overview of the various Indian tenet systems’ view on how we view ourselves as persons in relation to the samsara-perpetuating five aggregates.

The Indian Buddhist tenet systems differ in their views of the voidness or total absence of impossible ways that establish the existence of something and in their views of what establishes its conventional existence.

This variable of pure and impure refers to both aspects of the mental hologram: what it is and how it appears to exist.

Nonexistent phenomena can be objects of cognition, but not objects of valid cognition, only of distorted cognition.

A seminar on the complicated topic of how to meditate on the voidness of a false “me” experiencing the four noble truths to attain liberation and enlightenment.