Item Id: E-LIPM7

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This module contains pith instructions from Lama Zopa Rinpoche for how to meditate on emptiness and maintain wisdom awareness in daily life. Receive additional advice for meditation on the verse from the Diamond Cutter Sutra initially presented in Living in the Path, Module 3: What Buddhists Believe.

Learn the importance of clearly identifying the object of refutation (gag-cha) in one's analysis of emptiness; and discover the hallucinations of ignorance to be refuted, according to different schools of Buddhist philosophy. This brings us to a clear understanding of the Prasangika Madhyamaka view.

Finally, receive Rinpoche's heart advice for completing the realization of emptiness and the resultant understanding and confidence that comes with it. These teachings are extracted from the Light of the Path Retreat, September 2010 in North America taught by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

"What you have been holding from beginningless rebirths - there is nothing to hold on to."

When you purchase this course, you will receive an email with a link to download a PDF, which contains the enrollment key required to access this course on the online learning site at http://onlinelearning.fpmt.org

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE

Session One: Recognizing the gag-cha

• Smashing delusions with the Diamond Cutter Sutra similes
• The first referent of "I" in analysis - the real I
• The definition of existence
• What we have been believing all this time
• Tongpa-nyi: Emptiness only
• Unified emptiness and dependent arising
• The second referent of "I" in analysis - the merely imputed I
• Missing the thief
• The decoration is the gag-cha
• Using logic
• An experiment to try
• The fear of nothing to hold onto
• Meditation on the nine Diamond Cutter Sutra similes
• A real holiday

Session Two: What Emptiness Does for You

• The hallucinations in the lower schools of Buddhist philosophy
• The Vaibhashika school
• The Chittamatra (Mind-Only) school
• The hallucination in the Madhyamaka schools
• The Svatantrika Madhyamaka school
• The Prasangika Madhyamaka school
• The danger of falling into nihilism
• Verse 10 from The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
• Svatantrika and the I existing from its own side
• The importance of understanding these views
• "Think differently"

ACCOMPANYING VIDEO EXCERPTS IN THIS COURSE

• "Looking for the Real I" (11 min)
  
• "Nothing to Hold Onto" (8 min)
• "Diamond Cutter Meditation" (20 min)
  
• "How I Exists" (5 min)
• "Seeing the Middle Way View" (8 min)
• "It Just Clicks" (5 min)
• "Go Through the Fear" (8 min)
• "No One Can Cheat You" (7 min)
• "Free Your Mind" (5 min)
  

OTHER MATERIAL IN THIS COURSE

• A reading pack in PDF format
• Meditations & Practices
• Mindfulness exercises for daily life
• Service component or karma yoga exercises
• Questions for discussion for student/facilitator review & assessment
• Suggested readings
  
• Helpful resources

Important information about your order of Living in the Path online materials:
Following your purchase of an online module you will be sent a link to a webpage where you can download a PDF document. This PDF will include instructions on how to access the FPMT Online Learning Center and the enrollment key for accessing the specific module you have purchased. Please keep this PDF document in your records so you always know how to access the materials you have purchased.