Obstacles

Verses 11 through 14 Verse 11: Living Happily without Unease or Attachments How to Act When We Meet People Even When We Are Living in Seclusion Let me rid myself of hostility and uneasy mental states, and go happily everywhere. Here, Atisha is continuing the discussion...

Stages in the Contemporary Life Cycle In New Passages, Sheehy explained that the stages of the human life cycle vary according to socioeconomic class and the conditions of the times. Using this thesis, she discovered a new paradigm for the adult life cycle of contemporary,...

Questions about the Clear Light Mind If the clear light mind is not influenced by causes and circumstances and it's not independently existing, then by what is it influenced? When we speak of clear light mind as being an unaffected or unconditioned phenomenon, we need to...

What Are Impure and Pure Appearances? Now let’s discuss the variable of impure and pure appearances. The variable of pure and impure is applied in terms of whether or not an appearance is adulterated and stained with faults. “Faults” here refers to items that arise from our...

(11) Teaching Voidness to Those Whose Minds Are Untrained We’ve been going through the bodhisattva vows. We have covered ten of the 18 vows and we’re up to number 11. What we want to avoid with this vow is teaching voidness to those whose minds are untrained. This is talking...

Viewing Others as Respected Teachers Verse six of our eight-verse text expresses a similar sentiment to what Togme Zangpo communicates in the verse we previously cited in our discussion of verse five, in which he refers to someone we’ve raised and cherished like our own child...

Brief Review The Eight Verses of Mind Training comes from a long tradition, beginning with Shantideva’s text Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior, then with Atisha, who heard of these teachings from Dharmarakshita, who wrote Wheel of Sharp Weapons, and then...

Review We have been analyzing the various causal connections between clear-light mind, the winds of karma, the creative energy-drops and everything that’s involved in our experience of these mental holograms. We proposed that the winds of karma are the mounts of the mental...

Buddhist ethics offers a lot for people working in any social or helper profession that requires a great deal of knowledge and sensitivity to others.

A downfall from the tantric vows requires transgressing one of the fourteen root vows with the four binding factors being complete. Several factors may cause us to transgress our vows.