In this 10-year training, which is currently underway, we’re learning the details of deep meditation and all the steps of...
There are five stages or paths in the spiritual evolution of a human being. The second of those five paths is called The Path of Preparation, preparation here specifically refers to gaining an increasingly deeper intellectual understanding of emptiness which gives us the necessary spiritual power to have the direct perception of emptiness on path number three. This increasingly deeper understanding of emptiness progresses through four distinct stages while traversing the second path.
We love to get to the yoga studio and sweat—afterwards we feel loose and energized. If we keep it up,...
Geshe Michael teaching from his new translation of Je Tsongkapa’s Illumination of the True Thought — one of the greatest books ever written on emptiness. The subject of these two classes is the presentation of the perfection of giving as it's found in the explanation of the first bodhisattva level, known as “Perfect Happiness”. Je Tsongkapa's Illumination of the True Thought is one of the greatest presentations of emptiness in history. This work in turn is an explanation of Entering the Middle Way, by Master Chandrakirti, who lived during the seventh century and was commenting himself upon the 3rd‐century author Arya Nagarjuna, whose Root Text on the Wisdom of the Middle Way is considered the greatest commentary of all time upon the emptiness teachings of the Buddha himself.
Can the Buddha answer science's deepest unsolved question? A refreshing talk that sheds new light on our quest for the "Grand Unification Theory." Join us for three free talks that could change the way you think about everything. Geshe Michael Roach discusses how the ancient writings of Buddhism can help us make science more inclusive of the human experience and open the possibility for a world of deeper happiness, prosperity and peace.
In his TEDx talk, Geshe Michael Roach shared a teaching from the oldest printed book in the world — The...
Help them define their dream So far, we’ve been talking about how to get your students to come back to...
