A Crucial Exploration: How Merit and Negativity Function in our Lives and Practice
In this teaching series, Rinpoche leads us in a deep investigation of virtue and non-virtue, clarifying what they are, how we can recognize their results manifesting in our own and others’ lives, how to discern them arising in our minds, and how to train ourselves in merit and slowly rid ourselves of negativity.
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The Complete Series: A Crucial Exploration: How Merit and Negativity Function in our Lives and Practice
This is a 52 page PDF that combines all the pages below. Scroll down to downloads individual segments of this teaching.
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Part 1: Different Kinds of Tsok: Great Accumulations of Virtue and of Non-Virtue
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Part 2: We Perpetuate Samsara Through the Tsok of Great Negativity
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Part 3: Our Habitual Negativity Creates Our Constant Failures
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Part 4: Recognizing the Effects of Merit
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Part 5: The Power of Clearly Understanding Merit and Negativity
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Part 6: MY WAY vs. the Buddhas’ Way
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Part 7: Signs of Merit and Negativity
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Part 8: Dharma Gives Us a Choice
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Part 9: At the Beginning, the Dharma is Unfamiliar
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Part 10: The Power of Our Dharma Vows
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Part 11: Learn What the Vows Mean
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Part 12: The Merit of Understanding the Truth of Impermanence
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Part 13: The Vast Merit of Realized Masters
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Part 14: Snacks and Other Easy Opportunities for Merit
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Part 15: Make Vast Offerings, But Don’t Boast
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Part 16: His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche’s Blessing
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Part 17: The Benefits of Practicing Dharma
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Part 19: Not for Me but for All Beings
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Part 20: Each Dharma Center is to Benefit All Beings
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