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...

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...

Review We are going through the stages of the graded path to enlightenment, which deal with how we generate the proper motivation to progressively achieve more advanced spiritual levels.  The Three Levels of Motivation The first level motivation, the initial level, is to...

Review We are going through the various stages to the path to enlightenment. The lam-rim, as it’s called in Tibetan, is a way of organizing the sutra teachings – with tantra coming at the end – in a way that allows us to progress along the spiritual path and to reach the...

We are going through the stages of the spiritual path to enlightenment as originally outlined by Atisha and elaborated in its fullest form by Tsongkhapa. It explains how we expand our motivation beyond our concerns for this lifetime and to develop the motivations for reaching...

We are going through these graded stages of the path, talking about how we develop our motivation in a spiritual way, aiming, first of all, to avoid worst rebirths and to gain one of the better rebirth states, then, to avoid rebirth all together – so, to gain liberation – and,...

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 from them and that we could easily get into these terrible situations again. We...