wisdom
Teachings on how to cultivate wisdom on many different levels, ranging from the wisdom that understands karma and its effects, the four truths, and how to benefit others, to the wisdom realizing the ultimate nature of reality.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Making flawless syllogisms
Debate teaches us how to make flawless syllogisms that help to reveal our mistaken ways…
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The comparison of phenomena
Debate teaches us how to compare different phenomena so that we can understand how things…
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Conceptual and nonconceptual minds
Debate helps us to see the bare facts of the situation and distinguish them from…
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Meet people where they are
Encouraging those who learn debate to speak in ways that meet others where they are…
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The Mind and Life VIII conference: Destructive emotions
A perennial human predicament: the nature and destructive potential of “negative” emotions.
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Prostrations to the 35 Buddhas
How to do purification practice and how to visualize the 35 Buddhas.
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Recommended further reading
Further resources on the topics covered in Living as a Buddhist Nun.
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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo The situation of Western monastics
A statement to His Holiness the Dalai Lama illustrating the difference between Asian and Western…
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Venerable Jamyang Wangmo How to rely on a spiritual friend
A description of the relationship between teacher and student, and how important it is to…
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Finding our way
A reflection on the Dharma, working with afflictions, self-esteem, ordination, and living within the precepts.…
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Path of no more learning
Perceiving emptiness and conventional truth simultaneously. A discussion of the final verses of the Heart…
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Path of accumulation and preparation
What is emptiness? Examining what emptiness means and what is meant when we grasp at…
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