Review We have been going through the graded stages of the path, the levels of motivation that we need to develop one after the other in order to reach the three spiritual goals as outlined in Mahayana Buddhism. We start by aiming to attain one of the better rebirths,...

Review We are going through the graded stages of the path to develop ourselves spiritually. These stages are the three levels of motivation – initial, intermediate, and advanced. Initially, we are thinking in terms of future lives, wanting to ensure that we continue to have...

Review We are going through the stages of motivation in order to develop ourselves all the way to wishing to reach enlightenment and actually attaining enlightenment. These are the graded stages of the path. These are studied or worked with in several ways. One way is to start...

Review We are going through these graded stages of the mind in order to reach the spiritual goals as defined in Buddhism. These are, first, to improve our future lives and to ensure that we continue to have precious human lives, then, to get liberation from uncontrollably...

We have been covering the meditations on the precious human rebirth, which is how we start our spiritual training in the lam-rim. We’ve seen that the precious human rebirth affords us a temporary respite – a vacation, as it were – from the eight situations in which we would...

Review We are going through these graded stages, analyzing and working with each of them, point by point. These are different ways of thinking and understanding, different insights and attitudes that, together, act as pathways for reaching the three levels of spiritual goals...

Review We are going through the stages for developing ourselves spiritually in order to reach the goals as specified in the Buddhist teachings. These goals are, on the initial level, to make sure that we continue to have precious human rebirths in order to be able to continue...

Review We are going through these graded stages of the path, speaking not only about how we develop these states of mind but also about how we familiarize ourselves with them through meditation. In order to do that, we need not only to be certain of what these states of mind...

Review We are going through these graded stages of the path to enlightenment for developing the three spiritual goals. We are developing ourselves by aiming progressively for one goal after the next, and we are aiming for them for a proper reason, motivated, or moved, by a...

Review We are going through the graded stages of the path by which we develop ourselves progressively to achieve more and more advanced levels of spiritual motivations, aiming, first, to attain better rebirths, then, to attain liberation from all rebirths, and, finally, to...