Continuing the review of the Chapter 12, "The Mind and Its Potential", describing how Buddhas perceive conventional truth and ultimate truth simultaneously ..read more

Continuing the review of Chapter 12, "The Mind and Its Potentials", describing the four maras ..read more

Continuing the review of Chapter 12, "Mind and Its Potential", describing how afflictions are not rooted in the nature of the mind and can be dispelled ..read more

Reviewing Chapter 12, "The Mind and Its Potential", describing the nature of the mind and how it is possible to overcome the afflictions ..read more

Reviewing Chapter 12, "The Mind and Its Potential", describing how Buddhas depends on sentient beings and how we can treasure sentient beings because of this ..read more

Completing teaching from Chapter 12, explaining various meanings of "equality of samsara and nirvana" and how clear light mind is understood according to sutra and tantra vehicles. The post Equality of samsara and nirvana appeared first on Thubten Chodron ..read more

Subtle differences between nirvana and liberation Unconditioned and conditioned Nature of aspiration and nature of the wisdom Description of bodhi Explanation of mind is devoid of the mind Nature truth body and wisdom truth body Ability to cognize objects Various factors obscuring the mind Physical aspects such as wall, distance Mental aspects such as cognitive faculties, disturbing emotions, subtle defilements https://audio.thubtenchodron.org/Samsara_Nirvana_and_Buddha_Nature_83_2022-09-16_The_Mind_and_Its_Potential.mp3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature 83: The Mind and Its Potential (dow ..read more

Not arising, not ceasing, not changing while existing Free from craving and views Different from four elements and four formless states Unborn, unbecome, unmade, unfabricated Nirvana is different from total nonexistence Object of supramundane path Three aspects of nirvana State free from conditioned existence Refutations of wrong views about nirvana Differences and similarities between Pali and Sanskrit traditions https://audio.thubtenchodron.org/Samsara_Nirvana_and_Buddha_Nature_82_2022-09-09_Nirvana_as_the_Object_of_Meditation.mp3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature 82: Nirvana As The Obje ..read more

Non-abiding nirvana Free from the extremes of samsara and personal nirvana Four buddha bodies Two purities Nirvana in pali tradition Elimination of five aggregates subject to clinging Cessation of duhkha and its origins Emptiness and dependent arising Eradication of attachment, anger and ignorance Meaning of nirvana in Pali and Sanskrit https://audio.thubtenchodron.org/Samsara_Nirvana_and_Buddha_Nature_81_2022-08-26_Nirvana_in_the_Pali_Tradition.mp3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature 81: Nirvana in the Pali Tradition (download) Contemplation points What is non abiding nirvana? What is a ..read more

Explanation of natural nirvana Emptiness, free from elaborations Actual nirvana, free from afflictions Nirvana with remainder and nirvana without remainder Views of different tenet schools for arhat’s nirvana Polluted aggregates, continuum of consciousness Comparing the paths of arhats and bodhisattvas Prasangikas view of nirvana with remainder and without remainder https://audio.thubtenchodron.org/Samsara_Nirvana_and_Buddha_Nature_80_2022-08-19_Types_of_Nirvana.mp3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature 80: Types of Nirvana (download ..read more