Here is a collection of Idea Images (Idims) which represent all the important ideas of this course. It’s a great tool to connect the image mentally with the important idea. There’s a tradition in this lineage that when you learn a topic you review it at least two times after the class. Preferably once on the day of the class and preferably once the next day or two days later. As Geshe Michael pointed out in this course:
I personally think it’s a great idea to do your traditional lineage required review by just looking at the pictures. Personally I make myself breakfast and I set the images down on the table and I slop food into my mouth, and I drink my coffee and try to remember what was this picture about. And for me it’s a very pleasant breakfast. It’s kind of like a Dharma breakfast.”
Please Note: To make this an even more powerful study tool we linked each image to the exact time in the video where Geshe Michael explains the important idea. You can just click on each Idim and it will open the video at the precise location.
Idim 6.1: Arya Nagarjuna vs. Master Chandrakirti: Sweeping simplicity vs. mind-opening depth
Idim 6.2: The big debate begins
Idim 6.3: Four men working
Idim 6.4: Happy in the stream
Idim 6.5: No Three Jewels: the ultimate dis
Idim 6.6: No Jewels, no goodness, no parlance: where’s the connection?
Idim 6.7: “You don’t get the purpose; the essence, or the point” of emptiness: What’s the difference?
Idim 6.8: Why teach both?
Idim 6.9: A balance between terms & ultimate reality
Idim 6.10: Pickpocketing a naga
Idim 6.11: Lord Buddha hesitant to teach
Idim 6.12: The only thing we really need in life
Idim 6.13: Emptiness is dependence is the middle way
Idim 6.14: Turning the tables: typical Nagarjunian strategy
Idim 6.15: Bhusuku couldn’t fly
Idim 6.16: What could hurt emptiness in dependence?
Idim 6.17: If everything is empty, how can we stop pain?
Idim 6.18: Where does the flow arrive?
Idim 6.19: Here today, gone tomorrow: how we usually think of nirvana
Idim 6.20: Before & after the diamond, higher version of those two nirvanas
Idim 6.21: Parinirvana: last chapter in the big act
Idim 6.22: Is there a forever nirvana? How could it start?
Idim 6.23: Natural nirvana
Idim 6.25: Famously misunderstood; suffering & escape
Idim 6.27: Karma in the wheel
Idim 6.28: The boat arrives
Idim 6.29: Contact’s perfect appearance
Idim 6.30: Consciousness from contact
Idim 6.31: An arrow in the eye
Idim 6.32: The two desires
Idim 6.33: Existence & liberation
Idim 6.34 Continuation
Idim 6.35: A huge mountain
Idim 6.36: Wisely doing nothing
Idim 6.37: How to do nothing
Idim 6.38: A perfect end to the pure white mountain of pain
Idim 6.39: Edges
Idim 6.40: Dark behind
Idim 6.41: Dark ahead
Idim 6.42: The start of everything
Idim 6.43: One starts another
Idim 6.44: Everything ends
Idim 6.45: Smaller endings
Idim 6.46: Justice?
Idim 6.47: Happiness?
Idim 6.48: Why am I here?
Idim 6.49: Belief checklist nine
Idim 6.50: Gautama’s love
Geshe Michael Roach (born December 17, 1952) is the first American to have been awarded the degree of Geshe, or Master of Buddhism, after more than 20 years of study in Tibetan monasteries. He has used this training to become a prominent international teacher, businessman, philanthropist, author, educator, public speaker, textual scholar, and musician. Geshe Michael graduated with honors from Princeton University and has received the Presidential Scholar Medal from the President of the United States at the White House.
In 1981 he helped found Andin International Diamond Corporation and bring it to annual sales of over $100 million, donating his profits to international aid projects. His book about achieving business and personal success through generosity, The Diamond Cutter, has become a global bestseller in 20 languages. He is the founder of the Asian Classics Institute, Diamond Mountain University, the Asian Classics Input Project, Worldview, the Yoga Studies Institute, Star in the East, Global Family Refugee Aid, Three Jewels Community Outreach Centers, and the Diamond Cutter Institute.
In 1981 he helped found Andin International Diamond Corporation and bring it to annual sales of over $100 million, donating his profits to international aid projects. His book about achieving business and personal success through generosity, The Diamond Cutter, has become a global bestseller in 20 languages. He is the founder of the Asian Classics Institute, Diamond Mountain University, the Asian Classics Input Project, Worldview, the Yoga Studies Institute, Star in the East, Global Family Refugee Aid, Three Jewels Community Outreach Centers, and the Diamond Cutter Institute.
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