Give Your Ego the Wisdom Eye
On November 24, 2011
What would happen if we give our ego or ignorance the wisdom eye?
Here, I have quoted a passage from Lama Yeshe’s book, Ego, Attachment and Liberation, published by the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
Developing Our Dharma Experience
On August 31, 2011
I would like to quote Lama Yeshe in this post. The following comes from an article posted on Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive and you can read the full article there.
As we deepen our knowledge of Buddhism, there is a real danger that the intellectual information we are accumulating is not connected with a [...]
The Usefulness of Emptiness
On August 22, 2011
During the past few weeks, I find myself having to explain the notion of emptiness or selflessness on quite a few occasions and I wonder how to present it in a way that conveys some experiences of what it means to be empty.
How can I show that emptiness is not an abstract idea reserved [...]
Looking among the Five Heaps for our Self
On August 8, 2011
In the discourses of the Buddha, there are many occasions when the Buddha questioned the audience with a familiar series of questions regarding the nature of our self. Given that they are in the living presence of an enlightened one, I am sure that the monks, nuns or lay people will pay full attention to [...]
A Snapshot of Special Insight: The Parent
On June 8, 2011
According to the teachings of the Prasangika Madhyamika school of Buddhist philosophy, our most persistent and fundamental mistake is grasping at an inherently, independently existent essence within persons and things, when they are utterly empty of such fantasized ways of existing. It is good to get a sense of why this is problematic, right at [...]
Dependent Origination — A House of Cards
On March 3, 2011
What can we learn about dependent origination from a house of cards? Well, most of us would be able to figure out that a house of cards is clearly dependent on the individual cards, arranged and stacked in a specific way.
The important question to ponder is: how does this house of cards itself [...]
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