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Obstacles
67 Articles
Being Humble
Brief Review We started our discussion of the Eight Verses of Mind Training by Langri Tangpa, with the first verse: (1) May I always cherish all limited beings by considering how far superior they are to wish-granting gems for actualizing the supreme aim. We discussed how...
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Commentary on “Eight Verses of Mind Training” – Dr. Berzin
Relationships with All Beings, a Spiritual Teacher and a Yidam
According to Buddhist analysis, not only do a self that is hugging someone, the other person being hugged and an action of hugging arise dependently on and simultaneously with each other, a self that is hugging also arises dependently on and simultaneously with many other...
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Dependent Arising of the Self in Terms of Relations with Others
Avoiding Causes for Mentally Wandering from Bodhichitta
Verses 2 and 3 Review Prostration and Buddha-Nature We have been discussing the first verse of Bodhisattva’s Garland of Gems, which has to do with how to meditate in general and, more specifically, how to meditate on bodhichitta. The topic was introduced by the prostration or...
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Commentary on “A Bodhisattva’s Garland of Gems” – Dr. Berzin
Mahamudra: Finding the Mind and Attaining Shamatha
Clarification of Points about Kagyu and Sakya Teachings There are many different traditions, for instance in Kagyu there’s the tradition of two streams merged together, which refers to having both sutra and tantra mixed together within the mahamudra teachings. The disciple...
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Commentary on “Root Text for Mahamudra” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
Addiction to Social Networks and Text Messaging
Review We’ve looked at what we’re dealing with in attitude training or mind training, which is our experience of everyday life. We live our lives, and experience each moment ourselves. Even if we broadcast everything that we do on Facebook and Twitter, still, we’re the only...
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Mind Training in Daily Life: Nothing Special
Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Tonglen Done with the Three Poisons
Contrasting Bodhisattvas with Ordinary Beings The text, Wheel of Sharp Weapons, begins with Dharmarakshita contrasting bodhisattvas with ordinary beings. Bodhisattvas practice tonglen – giving and taking – taking from others the three poisonous disturbing states of mind or...
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Overview of “Wheel of Sharp Weapons” – Dr. Berzin
Preventing Mahamudra Preliminaries from Becoming Flat
Reasons for Preliminaries Becoming Flat People engaged in preliminary practices sometimes find them becoming flat. The primary fault lies with our motivation. The main measure to prevent this is continually reaffirming our reasons for engaging in the preliminaries. If, as...
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The Practical Application of Mahamudra
More Causes for Flightiness, and Stabilizing Bodhichitta
Verses 4 through 6 Verse 4: Lessening Flightiness of Mind by Having Few Desires Let me rid myself of (desire for) material gain and honor and always rid myself of (desire for) profit and fame. So, let me have few desires, be content, and show appreciation for the kind acts...
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Commentary on “A Bodhisattva’s Garland of Gems” – Dr. Berzin
Dealing with Problematic Teachers
Applying Sutra-Level Guru-Meditation to a Faulty or Abusive Teacher His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama had two regents during his minority. They taught him extensively and conferred upon him numerous tantric empowerments. They also engaged in a power struggle and had...
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The Dynamics of a Healthy Student-Teacher Relationship
Other-Voidness: Clear-Light Mind or Rigpa
Review We have been speaking about self-voidness and other-voidness and, so far, we are restricting our discussion to the Gelug assertions, although Gelug does not use the terms self-voidness and other-voidness for its own assertions. Some non-Gelug masters, however, do use...
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Main Points of Self-Voidness and Other-Voidness
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