In order to know how to develop bodhichitta and meditate on it, we need to know what it is focused on and how it actually engages with that object.

Understanding Our Capabilities We haven’t spoken much about whether we actually think it’s possible to achieve all of this stuff, and whether I am capable of achieving it. This gets into the whole discussion of Buddha-nature, which basically refers to the factors that all of...

The Difficulty of Obtaining a Precious Human Rebirth and How to Take Best Advantage of It It is important to think in the beginning about the difficulty of obtaining a precious human rebirth with all its respites from situations preventing Dharma practice and all its...

When we talk about meditation in a Buddhist context, we’re talking about something rather specific. Nowadays, we often hear the word “meditation” in all sorts of places, because it has quite a good reputation and many people are using it as an aid to relaxation and so on....

With an extensive presentation of harmful situations that befall us, their karmic causes and the ways of behaving that will counter them, Dharmarakshita leads us to the practice of tonglen, giving and taking.

I make prostration to the Three Rare Supreme Gems. “The Throwing Star Weapon Striking the Vital Point of the Foe.” I make prostration to forceful Yamantaka. (1) In the case of peacocks strutting in jungles of poisonous plants, although medicine gardens have been finely...

Read and listen to the original text “Wheel of Sharp Weapons” by Dharmarakshita.

The name of this work is The Wheel of Sharp Weapons Effectively Striking the Heart of the Foe. I pay heartfelt homage to you, Yamantaka; your wrath is opposed to the Great Lord of Death. [1] [notes by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey: see below] (1) In jungles of poisonous plants...