Renunciation

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...

Review So far in our Seven Point Mind Training discussion, we’ve covered four out of the seven points. The first point focused on the preliminaries. The second point was about developing actual bodhichitta, which involves developing deepest bodhichitta and then relative...

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...

An explanation of the samsaric mechanism of death and rebirth and the liberating mechanism of the sutra, anuttarayoga tantra and Kalachakra methods for attaining a true stopping of them with the attainment of enlightenment.

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

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

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

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

Renunciation is the determination to be free of our sufferings and their causes. When focused on others, with the determination that they be free, this is compassion.