Mixed Nuts Reading Club

Power of Foundation. Purification Series

Why does taking Refuge help us to purify our bad mental seeds?

Diamond Cutter Classics is an organization dedicated to translating the most important philosophical texts of the Asian traditions into English and other modern languages in a way that is understandable and applicable for the modern world.  

Tim Lowenhaup and Aldo Arzapalo share with us ideas about  what Master Shantideva (750 A.D.) and Gyelsab Je (1364 A.D.)  share with us about how can we clean ourselves from bad deeds. In This session we talk again about a first step to do that,  this step is called "the Power of Destruction" also known as "intelligent regret".   We go a little further into practical ways to use this wonderful tool.

Diamond Cutter Classics is an organization dedicated to translating the most important philosophical texts of the Asian traditions into English and other modern languages in a way that is understandable and applicable for the modern world.  

Master Shantideva (750 A.D.) and Gyelsab Je (1364 A.D.)  share with us how can we clean ourselves from bad deeds. This session we talk about a first step to do that,  this step is called "the Power of Destruction" also known as "intelligent regret".  

Next in the Bodhisattacharyavatara, by Master Shantideva (750 A.D.), we talk about how to give and offer to 3 of the most powerful objects, the 3 Jewels.  What are the 3 Jewels?, what are some kinds of things we can give in order to get a real Wish to get Enlightened and benefit all beings?, this and more related topics here.

Diamond Cutter Classics is an organization dedicated to translating the most important philosophical texts of the Asian traditions into English and other modern languages in a way that is understandable and applicable for the modern world.  

We keep going in our series on the Bodhisattvacharyavatara, by Master Shantideva (750 A.D), in this session we talk about why to get Bodhichitta?, what are their benefits? let's go.

We begin with a series of session on one of the biggest classics on how to become a Spiritual Warrior who wants to reach their Highest Potential to benefit everybody, The Bodhisattvacharyavatara written by Master Shantideva (750 A.D)

From a commentary written by Choney Lama, Drakpa Shedrup (1675-1748) on the Heart Sutra, we talk about the 4 Truths that a Person that Sees Emptiness Directly comes to Realize.

Diamond Cutter Classics is an organization dedicated to translating the most important philosophical texts of the Asian traditions into English and other modern languages in a way that is understandable and applicable for the modern world.  

Round 2. Again we are using a commentary called "A Ship On The Sea Of Emptiness" written by Choney Lama Drakpa Shedrup (1675 - 1748), we go into a section of Chapter 2 (Coming and Going) of arguably Arya Nagarjuna's most famous work called "Wisdom".

Diamond Cutter Classics is an organization dedicated to translating the most important philosophical texts of the Asian traditions into English and other modern languages in a way that is understandable and applicable for the modern world.    

How can using Wisdom be the most Compassionate and Loving thing we can do for this World? let's talk about it!!!

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