Continuing teaching from Chapter 10, explaining the transcendental factors concentration, knowledge and vision, disenchantment and dispassion.

Commentary to verses 4-7 of Chapter 8, “Meditation”. How attachment hinders serenity meditation, identifying attachment, and recognizing it’s drawbacks.

Continuing teaching from Chapter 10, explaining the flow the transcendental dependent origination and covering faith, delight, joy, pliancy and bliss

Review of the second half of Chapter 5 covering Shantideva’s explanation of how to train in the ethics of gathering virtue and the ethics of benefiting others.

Reviewing Chapter 2, covering the sections related to true duhkha covering realms of existence and three types of duhkha.

Review of the first half of Chapter 5 “Guarding Alertness,” (introspective awareness) from Shantideva’s “Engaging in the Bodhisattva’s Deeds.”

Starting teaching from Chapter 10, explaining “dharani” to describe how they cover different aspects of the four noble truths and four self-confidences.

Completing Chapter 9, describing how to think about the four truths in terms of three levels of practitioners and what it means to develop renunciation

Continuing teaching from Chapter 9, describing the way to investigate the source of true happiness in order to sustain the dharma practice.

Commencing the teaching from Chapter 9 and describing the benefits of meditating on the 12 links and how it clears away wrong views