Review: The Context for Meditating on the False “Me” Yesterday, we began our discussion of how to meditate on the voidness of the false “me” experiencing the four noble truths. We looked at the general context within which this is studied and meditated upon. We saw that this...

The First of Three Layers of the Impossible “Me” to Be Refuted There are three layers of impossible “me” that we need to refute. We can differentiate more layers, but here we’ll just deal with the main three. Each progressive layer is deeper than the one before it. We project...

Maitreya, a bodhisattva residing in Tushita heaven, will be the next Buddha to come as a universal teacher.

The circle of uncontrollably recurring rebirth was formally defined as any or all of the aggregate factors of experience which are received, tainted by the disturbing emotions and attitudes, from the causes of the disturbing emotions and which are bound together to become...

A medium version of the Chakrasamvara sadhana with a more elaborate visualization.

As the first link of the twelve links of dependent arising, the anti-knowing mental factor gives rise to and occurs together with the karmic impulses that are the second and tenth links – affecting karmic impulses and further existence, respectively. Let us examine this...

Voidness (emptiness) is a very difficult topic, but a very essential topic. In order to approach it, we need to see where it fits into the general presentation of the Buddhist teachings. As we all know, Buddha taught his understanding, his realization in terms of what is known...

Introduction: Examining the Self and “Me” Our topic for this series of talks is the healthy development of the self through the lam-rim graded stages. The “self” is very central to the Buddhist spiritual path. We can see this even when we set our motivation for...

We were speaking about voidness (emptiness), and we saw that voidness is a negatingly known phenomenon, it’s a negation. We know it by negating something. If we put the word “voidness” into different terms, then we could say that it is an absence of something. There are many...

The Dalai Lama encourages students to develop their inner values and ethics alongside their education.