Review We have been going through the graded stages of the path, which refer to the different types of understandings that we need to gain in a graduated order in order to reach the goals of the Dharma – namely, attaining better future rebirths, particularly precious human...

The recording of the first half of our class was lost due to a technical difficulty. So, we will skip the resume of all the steps in the lam-rim that we had gone through and review again the stage where we’re at. We’re in our discussion of karma. Review In this discussion of...

Review We’ve been going through these graded stages of the path. Perhaps I can summarize very quickly. We started with appreciating the precious human rebirth, then appreciating how it’s going to be lost at the time of death and how nothing is going to be of help at the time...

Review We’re going through the graded stages of the path. Just to review very quickly, we’ve discussed the precious human rebirth, death and impermanence. We’ve seen that the opportunities that we have now are not going to last and that it is likely, if we haven’t taken any...

Review We are going through the lam-rim, the graded stages of the path. These are the different levels of motivation that we develop as we further ourselves along the path to enlightenment. The initial motivation is to obtain a better rebirth, specifically a precious human...

Review We have been going through the meditations that will help us to develop the various pathways of mind, or understandings, that will act as pathways to enlightenment. We’ve been going through them in the graded order as presented in the lam-rim, beginning with the...

Review We’re going through the graded stages of the path. We have covered – just to review in brief – the precious human rebirth. We’ve seen the opportunities that we have, the temporary freedoms or respites from the worst states and so on, and that we have all the...

Review We’ve been going through the graded stages of the path, which are the various levels of realizations that we need to gain to develop ourselves spiritually. First, we strive to ensure that we continue to have better rebirths, specifically precious human rebirths, so that...

Review We’ve been going through the various aspects of the graded stages, trying to analyze on a deeper level the various points that are covered in this material.  Just to recapitulate very briefly, we’ve gone through the precious human rebirth with all its opportunities...

Review of the Initial Scope We have been going through the graded stages of the path and have finished one major part of it, which is the initial scope. The graded stages are organized according to three levels or scopes of motivation: the initial, intermediate, and advanced....