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WSW 53: May We Lead Beings Out of the Three Worse Rebirth States
Verses 99-101 Recap We are studying this great text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons, which is the earliest text in the lojong or attitude-training genre. It was written by the great master Dharmarakshita. This text speaks a great deal about the practice of tonglen, of giving and...
Part in Wheel of Sharp Weapons – Section 5: Understanding Emptiness
WSW 54: May Higher State Beings Attain the Causes for a Form Body
Verses 102-103 Recap  We are going through this very famous text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons by Dharmarakshita, which is the earliest text of the lojong tradition or attitude training, or it’s sometimes called mind training. The text is basically dealing with overcoming the...
Part in Wheel of Sharp Weapons – Section 5: Understanding Emptiness
WSW 55: Everything Dependently Arises, False Appearances Are Illusions
Verse 104 Recap We are working through this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons by the Indian master Dharmarakshita, which is the earliest text in this particular genre of literature called lojong – the attitude training or mind training. With this, we work to change our attitudes so...
Part in Wheel of Sharp Weapons – Section 5: Understanding Emptiness
WSW 55: Everything Dependently Arises, False Appearances Are Illusions
Verse 104 Recap We are working through this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons by the Indian master Dharmarakshita, which is the earliest text in this particular genre of literature called lojong – the attitude training or mind training. With this, we work to change our attitudes so...
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WSW 56: Discussion of Dependent Arising and Illusion
Verse 104 Recap We have been studying this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons by Dharmarakshita, which is the earliest text of the attitude training or mind training genre – lojong in Tibetan. In it, the author explains about how to overcome the self-cherishing attitude that causes...
Part in Wheel of Sharp Weapons – Section 5: Understanding Emptiness
WSW 57: Like a Bubble or a Mirage, Our Life Has No Solid Core
Verses 105-106 Recap We are studying this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon, which is in the genre of lojong – attitude training or mind training. It was written by a great Indian master, Dharmarakshita and is the earliest text of this tradition. It was...
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WSW 57: Like a Bubble or a Mirage, Our Life Has No Solid Core
Verses 105-106 Recap We are studying this text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon, which is in the genre of lojong – attitude training or mind training. It was written by a great Indian master, Dharmarakshita and is the earliest text of this tradition. It was...
Part in Wheel of Sharp Weapons – Section 5: Understanding Emptiness
WSW 58: Appropriate Actions Despite Emptiness of Cause and Effect
Verses 107-112 Recap We are continuing our study of Wheel of Sharp Weapons – this lojong or attitude training or mind training text by Dharmarakshita. It speaks primarily about how to overcome the self-cherishing attitude and then, on a deeper level, how to overcome the...
Part in Wheel of Sharp Weapons – Section 5: Understanding Emptiness
WSW 59: Countless Causes, Total Absorption on Emptiness, Dedication
Verses 113-118 Recap Tonight will be our last class of this course on Wheel of Sharp Weapons; there are only few verses left to go. We have seen that this text presents quite an extensive and full treatment of this basic material on changing our attitudes, particularly to...
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WSW 5: Homage to Yamantaka – Outer, Inner and Hidden Yamantakas
Recap  We have gone through the preliminaries for being able to study Wheel of Sharp Weapons. We’ve gone through the graded stages of the path, with which we work ourselves up through three levels of motivation on the spiritual path. First, to have the aim to improve our...
Part in Wheel of Sharp Weapons – Section 1: An Equal Attitude toward Everyone
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