Verse 4 We have been discussing Nagarjuna's text, Letter to a Friend, which Nagarjuna composed for his friend, King Udayibhadra. In it, we are elaborating on verse four where Nagarjuna says: [4] The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The...

We’ve been going through Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend, although we have not been doing many verses of it. We have been elaborating on the fourth verse where Nagarjuna says: [4] The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The Buddhas, the Dharma,...

Verse 4 We’ve been going through Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend, although we have not been doing many verses of it. We have been elaborating on the fourth verse where Nagarjuna says: [4] The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The Buddhas, the...

Verse 4 We have been speaking about Nagarjuna’s text, Letter to a Friend, which he wrote to King Udayibhadra. We have been discussing verse four: [4] The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The Buddhas, the Dharma, the Sangha, generous giving,...

The So-called Prasangika Over-refuter Argument That Objects Made of Particles Cannot Be Objects of Valid Cognition Does Not Make Us Lose Our Assertion of Conventional Objects Furthermore, Chittamatrins say that individual [external] particles are not objects of sensory...

We’ve been going through this outline of the Buddhist spiritual path, basically to expand the scope of our spiritual motivation. In expanding the scope of our motivation, we develop all the various aspects of the practice that are necessary for reaching our spiritual goals....

We are now, after a few weeks break, looking back at these grated stages of how we develop ourselves to achieve the various levels of spiritual goals according to the three levels of motivation. This is working, first, toward improving our future lives, making sure that we...

We are going through these graded stages of motivation of how we develop ourselves to work all the way toward the goal of reaching enlightenment. This means thinking about and aiming, first of all, to improve our future rebirths – so, getting one of the better states of...

We are going through these graded stages of the path, and we have seen that it’s talking about the different levels of motivation that we develop as we progress on the path.  Review Initial Scope Aiming to Improve Future Lives and to Avoid Worse Rebirths We have covered...

We are going through the graded stages of the path leading to the various spiritual goals: (1) the initial goal of attaining better rebirths, particularly precious human rebirths, so that we can continue on the path; then (2) the intermediate goal of liberation from all our...