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...

We are going through these graded stages for developing our minds – these graded stages of the path. As you recall, “path,” here, means a pathway of thinking, acting and speaking – so, how we actually travel in our spiritual progress. And for this we try to develop ourselves...

Review We’ve been speaking about the precious human rebirth, focusing on the respites from the eight states of no leisure that would make it impossible for us to practice and to develop ourselves spiritually and, also, the ten enriching factors that make it possible for us to...

We’ve been going through the meditations on the precious human rebirth. We covered the eight situations of no leisure that prevent Dharma practice in order to recognize that we have a short respite them and that we could easily get into these terrible situations again. We also...

We have gone through the basic teachings concerning the precious human rebirth, recognizing that we have temporary respites from the states in which we would have no leisure or freedom to practice Dharma and that we also have all the opportunities to practice. Understanding...

Review We started with the precious human rebirth, appreciating that it is a temporary respite from the eight states of no leisure to practice and that we have the ten endowments, or enrichments, that allow us to practice and to improve ourselves. We looked at the causes for...

An explanation on how the four noble truths are understood at initial, intermediate and advanced levels.