Two Truths

The Fourth Panchen Lama presents the sutra method of mahamudra meditation for gaining shamatha on the conventional nature of the mind and then joined shamatha and vipashyana on the mind’s deepest nature, its voidness (emptiness).

The Nyingma tradition of dzogchen is a complex of many lineages and teachings. Learn about the three lines of transmission, the three divisions of treasure texts, the three aspects and four types of rigpa, and other features adding to the richness of this tradition.

Vaibhashika and Sautrantika definitions and presentations of the two truths and their modes of existence, as well as of self-sufficiently knowable and imputedly knowable phenomena.

Understanding the Vaibhashika and Sautrantika assertions of the two truths serves as a steppingstone for understanding the assertions of the Chittamatra, Svatantrika and Prasangika tenet systems.

Learn how masters from the various Tibetan Buddhist traditions assert relative and deepest bodhichittas and how to gain simultaneous cognition of the two truths in anuttarayoga tantra.

The ancient Indian teachings on the mind, emotions, cognition, and logic can be of great benefit to the modern world.

The Buddhist teachings in a nutshell: Avoid anything destructive, be constructive in all you do, and to be able to do that, tame your mind.

Mahamudra is a system of meditation that concerns the two natures of mental activity: what it is and how it exists. As with most topics in Buddhism, it is helpful to understand it in terms of the four noble truths.