Teachings: In-depth Series

  In-depth series of teachings on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation and how practitioners in today’s world might approach traditional texts written hundreds of years ago.     The Five PathsDownloadThe problems and advantages of charting spiritual progression; spiritual growth is rarely linear; the five paths as a way of organizing accumulated … [Read more...] about Then and Now 35

  In-depth series of teachings on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation and how practitioners in today’s world might approach traditional texts written hundreds of years ago.     The ten bodhisattva bhumis and buddhahood DownloadDiscussion of the highly coded text used in these last chapters; overview of the ten bhumis or stages and how they relate to … [Read more...] about Then and Now 36

In-depth series of teachings on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation and how practitioners in today’s world might approach traditional texts written hundreds of years ago.  Bodhicitta, pt. 2DownloadParticipants’ experience with meditation exercise; the four stages in the development of awakening mind; two aspects of awakening mind: apparently true and … [Read more...] about Then and Now 21

In-depth series of teachings on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation and how practitioners in today’s world might approach traditional texts written hundreds of years ago. Bodhicitta, pt. 3 DownloadParticipant’s experience with meditation on attention, intention, and will; living life at the level of intention or will in order to help others wake up … [Read more...] about Then and Now 22

\In-depth series of teachings on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation and how practitioners in today’s world might approach traditional texts written hundreds of years ago.  Bodhisattva vow, pt. 1DownloadParticipant’s experience with meditation on laying to rest wrong action; taking the bodhisattva vow in the presence of a teacher; does spiritual … [Read more...] about Then and Now 23

In-depth series of teachings on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation and how practitioners in today’s world might approach traditional texts written hundreds of years ago.  Bodhisattva vow, pt. 2DownloadParticipant’s experience with meditation on rejoicing in virtue; meeting the deficiency inside ourselves so that we may aspire to bodhicitta; planting … [Read more...] about Then and Now 24