Review: First Level of the Four-Point Analysis: Refuting the Coarse Impossible “Me” and the Subtle Impossible “Me” We have refuted the coarse impossible “me,” which is doctrinally based, and coming together with that are the 20 forms of this deluded attitude towards the...

Review of the First Level of Recognizing the Object to Be Refuted: The Coarse Impossible “Me” We were working on the first point of the four-point analysis, which is to recognize the object to be refuted. We saw that there are many levels of the object to be refuted, and we...

The Tantra Tradition of Mahamudra The text continues, As for the actual basic methods, although there are many ways of asserting mahamudra, there are two when divided according to the sutras and tantras. On the basis of our efforts to eliminate obstacles and build up...

Having a Quiet Mind and Caring Attitude In the development of balanced sensitivity, there are many different variables involved in overcoming the extremes of being either insensitive or oversensitive regarding ourselves and others. This has to do with how we...

The ten far-reaching attitudes are states of mind that bring bodhisattvas to enlightenment. Although shravakas may also develop these attitudes, they are not considered “far-reaching” unless they are conjoined with a bodhichitta aim.

“Hinayana” has become a collective term for 18 Buddhist schools, only one of which is currently extant and with scriptures in Pali, Theravada. “Mahayana” similarly spans several schools, not all of which have scriptures in classical Sanskrit.

With a true cessation of the true causes of true sufferings, none of the true sufferings can ever recur again.

There are three divisions of Buddha’s enlightening speech, differentiated according to the dominating condition of their origin.

Basic Buddhist practice entails training ourselves in three areas. We can train in them in order to overcome our own problems and sufferings, because of concern for our own well-being. Or we can train in them with love and compassion in order to be of more benefit to...

The “three turnings of the wheel of Dharma” were transmissions of the Dharma by the Buddha, skillfully teaching different topics at different times in his life to suit the place and times of the occasion and meet the needs and capacities of his audience.