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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

A precious opportunity

How to meditate on the eight freedoms and 10 fortunes of a precious human rebirth…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

The four noble truths

An overview of how we can strive to benefit ourselves and others in the long…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 34: The most evil of all beings in the world

Those who abuse their strength and power cause tremendous suffering and waste the good karma…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Verses 251-255

Refuting lower Buddhist schools' assertions about the future and examining the consequences of positing truly…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 33: The one who suffers the most

The perpetrator of a harmful action is experiencing suffering, and also creating the causes for…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 32: The master executioner

Death is definite. It is important to practice virtue and avoid non-virtue while we still…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 31: The invisible disease

Our refusal to acknowledge and accept the process of aging and sickness is a cause…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Betrayal

We can see those who betray us as overwhelmed by afflictions and suffering and cultivate…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 30: The navigator in samsara

Karma and afflictions lead us by the nose. We need to take responsibility for creating…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Looking at rebirth

How the continuity of the mind has taken rebirths in the past and will take…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 29: Vulgar and insensitive actions

Lack of consideration for others mars their impression of us and harms our relationships.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Summarizing verse

Past, present, and future relate to each other as cause and result. How the continuity…

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