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Liberation and Enlightenment
“Liberation and Enlightenment” found in 27 documents
Tainted and Untainted, and Samsaric and Nirvanic Appearances
Tainted and Untainted Appearances We’ve looked at the variables affecting the type of mental holograms that our mental activity gives rise to. These are the variables of “accurate and inaccurate” and “pure and impure” appearances. We’ve seen that these variables refer to both...
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Elaboration of “Types of Appearances Mind Gives Rise To”
7-Part Bodhichitta: Generating Bodhichitta
Review In our discussion of the seven-part cause and effect meditation for generating bodhichitta, we have gone through the sequence up until the final stage, the result of what we’ve been building up. We spoke of the basis, which is equanimity, free of attachment,...
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The Seven-Part Cause & Effect Development of Bodhichitta
7-Part Bodhichitta: The Lam-rim Basis
Dharma-Lite vs. The Real Thing Dharma I’m very happy to be back here in Seattle once more and to have the opportunity to speak to you about the meditations for developing bodhichitta.I suppose that it would be appropriate to give an introduction. Bodhichitta is something that...
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The Seven-Part Cause & Effect Development of Bodhichitta
Analysis of "Why Aren't We All Enlightened Yet?"
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Bodhichitta
Basic Tenets of the Nyaya and Vaisheshika Schools
Origins The Vaisheshika (bye-brag-pa) school of Indian philosophy bases itself on The Sutra of Particulars (Skt. Vaisheshika Sutra) by the sage Kanadi (Drang-srong gZegs-zan), as commented on in the 5th century CE by Prashastapada. The slightly later Nyaya (rigs-can-pa) school...
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Non-Buddhist Asian Traditions
Basic Tenets of the Samkhya and Yoga Schools
Origins The Samkhya (grangs-can-pa) school of Indian philosophy traces itself from the ancient sage Kapila (Drang-srong Ser-skya), author of The Numbered Items Sutra (Samkhya Sutra). This sutra, however, was compiled only in the 14th century CE. The earliest Samkhya text to...
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Non-Buddhist Asian Traditions
Becoming Convinced of Enlightenment
The Importance of Having an Accurate Idea of Enlightenment With bodhichitta – relative bodhichitta is what we are talking about here – it's very important to have an accurate mental representation of enlightenment, an accurate idea of what enlightenment is. Otherwise it's...
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What Needs to Be Understood to Have a Bodhichitta Aim
Deepest Bodhichitta
ReviewWe have been discussing yesterday how we develop relative bodhichitta – sometimes that’s called conventional bodhichitta. We make a differentiation between relative and deepest truth:In the Gelug tradition, when we speak about deepest truth, we’re only speaking about...
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Joint Practice of Conventional and Deepest Bodhichittas
Developing Interest in Liberation and Enlightenment
We started our explanation of Atisha’s text and we saw that he was speaking about the stages with which we develop or progress as we go along the spiritual path. And we saw that one way of describing how we progress is that our scope or aim of our goal gets progressively...
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Commentary on “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” – Dr. Berzin
Four Preparatory Thoughts for Tonglen: Giving & Taking
We’re going to start the weekend seminar on a very important and essential text (which is found in all the Tibetan traditions) from India called Seven Point Mind Training, which I received teachings on primarily from two of my main teachers: Serkong Rinpoche and Geshe...
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The Two Bodhichittas in “Seven Point Mind Training” – Dr. Berzin
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