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Renunciation
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When Are We Ready for Tantra?
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...
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Bringing Buddhism Down to Earth
Measuring Progress in Mind Training
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...
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Extensive Explanation of “Seven Point Mind Training” – Dr. Berzin
Renunciation of Ordinary Appearance-Making & Clinging
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...
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The Significance of Renunciation on the Buddhist Path
Persons of Intermediate Scope
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...
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Commentary on “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
Renunciation: The Determination to Be Free
Renunciation is the determination to be free from not only all forms of suffering, but also from its causes. It is based on the rational conviction that it is possible to become free of them.
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Samsara & Nirvana
Detachment, Nonviolence and Compassion
When we look at how we act in a certain situation, we need to differentiate between the motivation and the action.
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Emotional Hygiene
Going from Renunciation to Compassion
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.
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Love & Compassion
Compassionate Heart of Bodhichitta
A look at the major points along the path necessary to develop a bodhichitta motivation to help others and to reach enlightenment in order to benefit them in the best way possible.
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Bodhichitta
Nirvana and Enlightenment
It’s important to understand that nirvana and enlightenment aren’t the same. Nirvana is the first step. Enlightenment is the second step.
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Samsara & Nirvana
Milarepa Songs of Nonattachment
Teachings that Milarepa gave on nonattachment to children, friends, relatives and wealth.
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Samsara & Nirvana
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