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Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 6

Length
37:34
Kind
Q&A
Chapters
8

In this talk

  1. 0:00Questions on devotion and attachment
  2. 3:00Renunciation rests on the view
  3. 9:12Guru devotion in tantra
  4. 13:08Questions on the mirror and magician
  5. 21:08Analogy versus reasoning
  6. 27:59Devotion as a way to realise emptiness
  7. 30:51Emptiness is not inaction
  8. 35:27Why does illusion appear?

Part 6 of 13 · Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Kathmandu

Questions on devotion, renunciation, the similes, karma and emptiness not meaning inaction.

A question-and-answer session on the first days of the teaching, with a translator relaying questions. Rinpoche answers on attachment and devotion towards a teacher, why renunciation rests on the view of emptiness (told through a story of a monk and Manjushri), and guru devotion as pure perception in tantra. He returns to the mirror and magician similes, explains how analogy differs from reasoning, why karma still works if all is illusion, and encourages study of Svatantrika Madhyamaka. Further questions cover devotion as a way to realise emptiness, emptiness not meaning inaction, and why illusion appears at all. Some questions are held over to the next day.

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