Stages of the Path to Awakening Podcast Archives - Thubten Chodron

Providing an overview of the superknowledges and explaining the first one, super-normal powers, continuing the teaching from Chapter 8.

Reviewing the eight liberations and explaining the eight liberations from Pali tradition and nine serial absorptions, continuing the teaching from Chapter 8.

Concluding the section on four types of śrāvaka āryas, and beginning the section on the eight liberations, continuing the teaching from Chapter 8.

Describing some of the different ways to overcome innate afflictions and progress on the path to liberation and full awakening, continuing teaching from Chapter 8.

Describing the progression through the mundane meditative absorptions of the form and formless realms, continuing the teaching from Chapter 8.

Introducing the seven preparations and the seven mental contemplations of cultivating mundane insight, where one is aiming to attain a form or formless realm of concentration, beginning teaching from Chapter 8.

Explaining the diagram illustrating the process of attaining serenity, completing the teaching from Chapter 7.

Describing the nine stages of sustained attention as taught in Maitreya’s Ornament of Mahayana Sutras, continuing the teaching from Chapter 7.

Explaining the last three of the five faults and eight antidotes as taught in Maitreya’s Differentiation of the Middle and the Extremes. Beginning the nine stages of sustained attention, teaching from Chapter 7.

Explaining the third of the five faults and eight antidotes as taught in Maitreya’s Differentiation of the Middle and the Extremes, Restlessness and Laxity, and practical ways to antidote these two faults, continuing the teaching from Chapter 7.