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To Listen, Contemplate, and Meditate Is the Practice of a Bodhisattva Excerpt from A Guide to the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva...
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Shabkar Elucidates the Essentials of Spiritual Practice My disciple Wongpo, a local chief, one who is rich with the jewels of the aryas, asked me to tell him the benefit of dwelling in lonely mount...
From the Introduction to Asanga’s Bodhisattvabhumi
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This article on reliance on a teacher originally appeared in the Snow Lion newsletter, Vol 12 #4, Fall 1997 Answers to Questions at the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, Washington, New Jersey, September 1990 Joshua Cutler: Americans in general are very wary of relying on one person and giving that person...
Continue Reading Emptiness is perhaps the most important—yet difficult to define—topic in Buddhism. Guy Newland, author of Introduction to Emptiness—a kind of every-person’s guide to the intricacies of various explanations of emptiness—based his book on The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path: The Lamrim...
Continue Reading Blaming our friends, enemies, circumstances, or even spirits for our troubles is not helpful, says HH the Dalai Lama in this excerpt from The Union of Bliss and Emptiness. If one is not able to revolt against defilements and negative actions and overcome them, the most harmful factors, then one is not...
Continue Reading You should do everything your guru tells you to do, even if it seems strange, right? Wrong. According to HH the Dalai Lama every student is responsible for checking the guru’s instructions against reason and dharma. The rationalizations that many students tell themselves in the face of odd guru behaviors—“It...
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