To overcome chronic feelings of guilt at having committed destructive actions, we need to deconstruct our misconceptions about karmic cause and effect and the self.

An overview of the Sautrantika list of the seven ways of knowing, which include valid and non-valid ways of knowing.

Our minds give rise to many different kinds of appearances. To avoid confusion, we need to recognize and discriminate among the various different ways in which our minds make things appear to us.

An in-depth analysis of the topic of what it means to understand something, which is important both for our Dharma practice and in daily life.

The next set of prayers are prayers not to be confused about the practice of the path. This is divided into two sections: Prayers to not be confused about the words concerning meditationPrayers to not be confused about the meaning of the words. Prayer Not To Be Confused about...

Review We were speaking about the initial and intermediate level motivations in the lam-rim process for self-development on the spiritual path. We saw that on the initial scope, or with the initial scope, we are aiming for better rebirths. We want to avoid...

Preparation before Receiving an Empowerment This is an appropriate time for us to have some questions and hopefully some answers. What questions do you have or particular points that you might like me to try to explain? I would like some advice on how to practice Kalachakra at...

Then at that time the Tathagata spoke these verses: In numerous other inconceivable sutras, I have expounded empty phenomena in detail. Hence, here in this supreme sutra empty phenomena I will just briefly explain. As beings of slight intelligence, ignorant, are incapable of...

Why Do We Need to Understand Voidness? I’ve been asked this weekend to speak about the topic of voidness, which is, of course, an advanced topic and a topic that is not terribly easy to understand. In order to understand it, we need to be very well prepared. If we’re not...

When we correctly understand emptiness (voidness), we correctly understand dependent arising; and when we correctly understand dependent arising, we correctly understand emptiness.