Recap We have been speaking about the general background that we need in order to understand and practice the methods that are described here in this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons. We spoke about how the general teachings of Buddha are presented in terms of the Four Noble...

Verses 59-60 Recap We have been discussing this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons, ascribed to Dharmarakshita, a teacher of Atisha. This is the earliest text probably in this genre of lojong, or cleansing of attitudes, or attitude training – however we want to call it. It it has to...

Verse 61 Recap We are discussing the text Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon, a Mahayana attitude training text. The author has basically been speaking about how to overcome, first of all, our self-cherishing and only thinking in terms of ourselves. For this, we...

Verse 62 Recap We are here discussing this text Wheel of Sharp Weapons or, more literally, Throwing Star Weapon – a Mahayana attitude training. This is one of our earliest texts on the genre called lojong, or attitude training, in which we want to cleanse ourselves of negative...

Verses 63-64 Recap We have been going through our text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon by Dharmarakshita, which is a text concerning the cleansing of attitudes, or attitude training, or mind training. We have discussed how we need to overcome the...

Verses 65-66 Recap We have been working with this text Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon, a Mahayana training of attitudes. In the text, we have been dealing with self-cherishing and grasping for ourselves to exist as a solid “me.” We went through a large section...

Verses 67-68 Recap We’ve been going through this text Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon. It is dealing with the problems of self-cherishing, which is to think of ourselves as the most important and always work just for ourselves – or basically selfishness; and...

Verses 69-71 Recap We’ve been going through this text, which is in the category of texts known as lojong in Tibetan, which means attitude training, or mind training, or cleansing of our attitudes. It is probably the earliest text of this genre, and it speaks about how in...

Verses 72-74 Recap We have been studying and practicing this text called Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon, which is a text in the genre of lojong, or attitude training, or mind training. This is probably the earliest text of that genre. It’s ascribed to...

Verses 75-76 Recap We’ve been studying the text The Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon by Dharmarakshita. This is a Mahayana attitude training text that is talking about basically overcoming the source of our difficulties in life, the source of our uncontrollably...