Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature (2021–23)
Teachings on volume three of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion co-authored with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, on our present situation and our highest potential.
Concentration, knowledge & vision and dise...
Venerable Thubten Chodron Continuing teaching from Chapter 10, explaining the transcendental factors concentration, knowledge and vision, disenchantment and dispassion.
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Review of feeling
Venerable Thubten Samten Responding to questions comparing the transcendental factors and eleven virtuous mental factors and reviewing the link feeling from the twelve links.
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Karma in samsara and beyond
Completing teaching from Chapter 10, explaining the last two transcendental factors and covering the types of results from polluted and unpolluted karma
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Freedom from cyclic existence
Commencing teaching from Chapter 11, describing five paths of the practitioners of sravaka vehicle.
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Bodhisattvas’ path to awakening
Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, explaining the five paths of the bodhisattva vehicle.
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The two obscurations
Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, covering afflictive obscurations and cognitive obscurations.
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Types of nirvana
Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, covering natural nirvana and nirvana with remainder and nirvana without remainder
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Nirvana in the Pali tradition
Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, covering non-abiding nirvana and nirvana as the cessation of duhkha and it's origins.
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Nirvana as the object of meditation
Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, explaining nirvana as the object of meditation.
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The mind and its potential
Completing teaching Chapter 11, "Freedom From Cyclic Existence" and commencing Chapter 12, "Mind and Its Potential".
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Is liberation possible?
Continuing teaching from Chapter 12, describing three reasons that make liberation possible
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