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The Necessity of the Six Perfections and the Validity of Their Source
Beginningless Phenomena Our basis is reality. When we see what possibilities there are for transformation, then enacting them is the path. When we have transformed ourselves, that’s the result. The basis, then, is what exists and what doesn’t, and the difference between the...
Part in The Dalai Lama on the Six Perfections: Six Paramitas
The Necessity to Understand the Two Truths in the Tenet Systems
The Four Noble Truths: Two Sets of Cause and Effect As Shantideva said: (IX.1) The Sage has spoken about all these branches for the sake of discriminating awareness. Therefore, generate discriminating awareness with the wish to pacify...
Part in Studying Shantideva’s Presentation of Emptiness – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
The Need for Levels of Teachers on the Sutra Path
In A Precious Ornament for Liberation, Gampopa cited three analogies from the sutras to elucidate the need for a spiritual mentor. Just as a traveler needs a navigator for traversing an unknown route, an escort for making a dangerous journey, and an oarsman for crossing a...
Part in Matching the Level of Teacher with the Level of Student
The Need for Revising Asanga’s Presentation of Karma
Review We are continuing our discussion of what karma actually means. We discussed the presentation the Indian master Asanga made within the context of the Chittamatra system of tenets. If we translate Chittamatra literally, it means “mind-only.” We saw that, in this system,...
Part in Mechanism of Karma: Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna’s Presentations
The Need for Understanding Emptiness for Tonglen
Key Elements of Deepest Bodhichitta We have spoken about how to develop deepest bodhichitta, and we’ve seen that it is very important and helpful for being able to do the practice of tonglen, giving and taking. Now, we are ready to discuss the development of relative,...
Part in The Two Bodhichittas in “Seven Point Mind Training” – Dr. Berzin
The Need for a Caring Heart & First Quieting the Mind
Why We Need to Develop Balanced Sensitivity? We’ve seen that “Developing Balanced Sensitivity” is a training program concerned about how to develop balance with our attentiveness: how we pay attention to situations and to the effect of our behavior on others and ourselves,...
Part in Balanced Sensitivity for the Age of Social Media
The Need of Lam-rim for Practicing Tantra Effectively
How to practice tantra effectively using the three levels of motivation as found within the lam-rim teachings.
in Buddhist Tantra
The Nine Vehicles According to Nyingma
The nine vehicles in Nyingma refer to levels of practice that function like a vehicle of mind to bring us to the goal of liberation and enlightenment. Three of the nine are sutra methods, while the remaining six are tantra.
in Dzogchen: Advanced
The Nyingma Interpretation of Chandrakirti’s Passage on Emptiness
The Ceasing of Conceptual Fabrication: Nyingma Explanation Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II: So, now in the commentary, it looks like of the two conceptual fabrications, the first conceptual fabrication is the grasping for truly established existence [as is usually explained in...
Part in Differences between Gelugpa and Nyingma Concerning Emptiness in Prasangika
The Origin of the Universe According to Kalachakra
The evolution of a universe is intimately connected with the karma of the limited beings that will be reborn into it.
in Kalachakra: Advanced
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