Renunciation

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...

The last topic that we will speak about is renunciation of our minds giving rise to ordinary appearances and of our clinging to these ordinary appearances, and having our main interest be instead in having our minds giving rise to pure appearances of Buddha-figures and...

Tantra Is an Advanced Practice For our last session together, let’s speak a little bit about tantra. We also need to bring tantra down to earth. Often, Western people, when approaching the tantric teachings in Tibetan Buddhism, fall into one of two extremes. One extreme is to...

Brief Review of the Initial Scope We have been speaking about a person of the initial level of motivation. The verse in the text is: (3) Anyone who takes keen interest in himself or herself (achieving), by some means, merely the happiness of uncontrollably recurring samsara is...

Teachings that Milarepa gave on nonattachment to children, friends, relatives and wealth.

The entire lam-rim graded path from appreciating our precious human rebirth up to the developing a bodhichitta aim for enlightenment.

The lam-rim, or graded stages of the Buddhist path, take us from an ordinary limited being to a fully enlightened Buddha.

Renunciation is the determination to do everything we can to get rid of our suffering and attain liberation.

With renunciation we’re not aiming for enlightenment; we’re aiming for liberation from samsara.

Having sex with someone else’s partner inevitably brings problems and needs to be avoided.