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 29. January 2007 How Self-Grasping Causes Us to Belittle the Teachings and Make up Our Own (verses 86-87)
Mon 18. December 2006 How Self-Grasping Causes Us to Betray Those Who Trust Us and Makes Us Hard to Get Along With (verses 77-78)
Mon 26. March 2007 Demolish All Trace of Our Self-Grasping, Let's Meditate on Kindness toward All Beings, Taking on Their Suffering and Dedicating to Them the Roots from Our Constructive Acts (verses 94-95)
Mon 4. September 2006 How through Self-Grasping We Rob Ourselves of Liberation, How Understanding the Two Truths Rids Us of Self-Grasping (verses 49-50)
Mon 26. February 2007 How Self-Grasping Causes Us to Fill Our Time with Improper Actions, Calling on Yamantaka, Destroyer of the Demon of Self-Grasping (verses 90-91)
Mon 22. January 2007 How Self-Grasping Causes Us to Guess about the Teachings, Generate Distorted Views, and Act with Attachment, Anger, and Jealousy (verses 84-85
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 21. May 2007 All Things Arise Dependently on Causes and Conditions, False Appearances Are Illusions (verse 104)
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 4. December 2006 How Self-Grasping Causes Us to Waste Our Precious Human Rebirth, Focus on Worldly Things Instead of Spiritual Practice, and Steal from Others (verses 72-74)
Mon 27. November 2006 How Self-Grasping Causes Us to Deceive the Three Gems, Be Carried Away by Worldly Distractions and Superstitions, Discard Ethical Discipline, and Chase after Suffering (verses 69-71)
Mon 20. November 2006 How Self-Grasping Causes Us to Let Desire and Anger Fester Inside, Blame Others for Our Problems, Act Like Demons, and Go to Ghosts for Refuge (verses 67-68)
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 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 22. January 2007 How Self-Grasping Causes Us to Guess about the Teachings, Generate Distorted Views, and Act with Attachment, Anger, and Jealousy (verses 84-85
