Course on Dharmarakshita's Wheel of Sharp Weapons (higher quality version, larger files)
Summary: Here we present the recordings of a continuing weekly course given by Dr. Alexander Berzin (http://www.berzinarchives.com) in Berlin, Germany, on the earliest attitude-training (Lojong, mind-training) text, emphasizing the Mahayana Buddhist practice of taking on the sufferings of others and giving them our own happiness (tonglen).
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Podcasts:
Mon 14. May 2007 May the Beings of the Higher States Meditate on No True-Self and the Equal Nature of Samsara and Nirvana, and Thus Attain the Causes for a Buddha's Form Body (verses 102-103)
Mon 16. July 2007 A True Self Seems to Exist But Has Never Existed At All; Although Karmic Causes and Effects Lack Inherent Existence, We Must Accept and Reject the Appropriate Actions (verses 107-112)
Mon 16. July 2007 A True Self Seems to Exist But Has Never Existed At All, Although Karmic Causes and Effects Lack Inherent Existence, We Must Accept and Reject the Appropriate Actions (verses 107-112)
Mon 16. July 2007 Happiness and Suffering Dependently Arise from Countless Causes, The Need to Remain Totally Absorbed on Voidness, Final Dedication (verses 113-118)
Mon 7. May 2007 May We Lead Beings out of Three Worse States and Bring Peace and Happiness to Joyless Hell Realms; May Even Hell Beings Achieve Higher Rebirth and Develop Bodhichitta (verses 99-101)
Mon 7. May 2007 May We Lead Beings out of Three Worse States and Bring Peace and Happiness to Joyless Hell Realms, May Even Hell Beings Achieve Higher Rebirth and Develop Bodhichitta (verses 99-101)
Mon 28. August 2006 Karmic Causes of Our Positive Acts Eliciting Negative Responses and Summary of This Section about Karmic Causes (verses 45-48)
Mon 11. December 2006 How Self-Grasping Causes Us to Expect Attainments without Having to Work on the Spiritual Path and to Get Confused between Friends and Foes (verses 75-76)
Mon 30. October 2006 How Self-Grasping Causes Us to Boast and Pretend We Understand the Teachings, and How It Causes Our Followers and Patrons to Ignore Us (verses 63-64)
Mon 13. November 2006 Although We Have a High Status and Have Studied the Highest Philosophical View, Self-Grasping Causes Us to Act Worse than Animals and Demons (verses 65-66)
Mon 13. March 2006 Karmic Causes of Physical Pain and Mental Suffering (verses 10-11)
Mon 15. May 2006 Karmic Causes of Others Finding Fault with Us, Disagreements with Loved Ones, and Those Close to Us Becoming Our Enemies (verses 23-25)
Mon 8. January 2007 How Self-Grasping Causes Us to Harm Those Needing Help, Find Fault with Others, Get Offended and Easily Upset, and Abuse Those in Higher and Lower Positions Than Us (verses 79-81)
Mon 19. June 2006 Karmc Causes of Having No Home of Our Choice, Unwished For Things Happening, and Feeling Needy (verses 35-37)
Mon 20. February 2006 Analogy of the Peacock Thriving on Difficult Situations (verses 1-3)
