Stages of the Path Archives - Thubten Chodron: Recent Episodes
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Explaining the qualities of the dharma jewel and sangha jewel and the precepts to follow with respect to the three jewels, teaching from Chapter 9.
Explaining the suffering of hell beings, animals and hungry ghosts, continuing the teaching from Chapter 8.
Describing the last 3 points of the nine-point death meditation, teaching from Chapter 8.
Explaining the first six points of the nine-point death meditation, teaching from Chapter 8.
Completing Chapter 7, explaining the purpose of the gradual training and commencing Chapter 8, covering the topics from stages shared with the persons of lesser capacity.
Explaining the three levels of practitioners and the reasons for the gradual stages, teaching from Chapter 7.
Explaining the great value and the difficulty in having a precious human birth, teaching from Chapter 6.
Explaining 8 freedoms and 10 endowments for a precious human life, teaching from Chapter 6.
Explaining the misconceptions about analytical meditation and placement meditation and how to refute them, completing the teaching from Chapter 5.
An overview of the teachings on the stages of the path to awakening and The Library of Wisdom and Compassion book series.
Maintaining an awareness of death and impermanence brings energy to making our life meaningful and setting priorities.
Explanation of the far-reaching practice of wisdom and how it cultivating it enables us to generate the merit and wisdom needed to attain full awakening.
Explanation of the meditation on equalizing and exchanging self and others to develop bodhicitta.
Explanation of equalizing and exchanging self and others as well as a special meditation on equanimity used in this method of developing bodhicitta.
Developing bodhicitta, first by meditating on exchanging and equalizing self with others, then following the seven-point cause-and-effect method.
Looking at the disadvantages of cyclic existence to develop a determination to be free from the cycle of birth and death.
An in-depth look at the intricacies of karma: its characteristics, factors, results, and weight; helping us to create virtuous and abandon non-virtuous action.