(1) Having increased my zestful vigor like that, I shall set my mind in absorbed concentration; since a person having a distracted mind is set between the fangs of disturbing emotions. (2) Through dissociating (both my) body and mind, there'll be no occurrence of any...

(1) The Sage has spoken about all these branches for the sake of discriminating awareness. Therefore, generate discriminating awareness with the wish to pacify sufferings. (2) Surface and deepest, these are accepted as being the two truths. The deepest aren't cognitive...

The twelve links of dependent arising describe how true suffering, the first noble truth, comes about from the true origin or cause of suffering, the second noble truth.

(1) Patient like that, I need to embrace joyful perseverance, since (based) on perseverance, enlightenment takes place. After all, without joyful perseverance, there's no arising of positive force, just as, without wind, there's no motion. (2) What's joyful perseverance?...

Brief Review of the Initial Scope We have been speaking about a person of the initial level of motivation. The verse in the text is: (3) Anyone who takes keen interest in himself or herself (achieving), by some means, merely the happiness of uncontrollably recurring samsara is...

Phase Two Exercises for Quieting the Mind We have completed the phase of the exercises for quieting the mind using the photographs of mere acquaintances, friends and enemies. The second phase is done in two parts. In the first part, we are sitting in a circle looking at each...

You So-called Prasangika Over-refuters Cannot Cause Us to Lose Our Assertion of Conventional Phenomena by Refuting Them After Investigating Whether or Not They Can Be Established by Valid Cognition As for asserting forms and so on, we do not accept that valid cognition does...

You So-called Prasangika Over-refuters Cannot Cause Us to Lose Our Assertion of Conventional Phenomena by Refuting Them After Investigating Whether or Not They Arise in Any of the Four Alternative Ways Objection: If arising is discounted (altogether) by refuting arising...

You So-called Prasangika Over-refuters Cannot Cause Us to Lose Our Assertion of Conventional Phenomena by Refuting the Four Parts of the Tetralemma  Objection: Suppose you object, thinking, from the Madhyamaka texts comes the refutation of all four parts of the...

The So-called Prasangika Over-refuters’ Arguments to Try to Harm Our Prasangika Position Can Not Cause Us to Lose Our Assertion of Conventional Existence is divided into four sections: You (So-called Prasangika Over-refuters) Cannot Cause Us to Lose Our Assertion of...