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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. Karma, pt. 1DownloadThree analogies for karma: God’s will, gravity, and evolution; God’s will as explanation of mystery; gravity as absence of justice, etc.; evolution as contrast to … [Read more...] about Then and Now 14

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 Suffering of Samsara (pt 2)DownloadReview of the first two types of suffering; the third type of suffering and the six realms; how a society’s cosmology (medieval or modern) … [Read more...] about Then and Now 13

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 Suffering of Samsara (pt. 1)DownloadRecap of chapters previously covered; about the word dukkha; what “suffering” means in Buddhism; what is the question to which “the vicious … [Read more...] about Then and Now 12

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. Impermanence (pt. 3)DownloadAppreciating and living the three facts of impermanence: death is certain, time of death uncertain, and we take nothing with us into death; regret and … [Read more...] about Then and Now 11

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. Impermanence (pt 2)DownloadViewing mythic descriptions of the outer world as descriptions of internal processes; meditating on death as a means to detach from social conditioning, … [Read more...] about Then and Now 10

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. Impermanence (pt. 1)DownloadMedieval context; definition of lamrim; translation issues; four reasons (obstacles) why we aren’t already awake: taking experience as fact, habituated … [Read more...] about Then and Now 9