Stages of the Path to Awakening Podcast Archives - Thubten Chodron

Explaining the qualities of Buddha's body, speech and mind, and beginning the section on Buddha as a reliable guide, teaching from Chapter 2.

Covering the last six of the eighteen unshared qualities of a Buddha, teaching from Chapter 2.

Concluding the ten powers of buddhas (9 - 10), and covering the first twelve of the eighteen unshared qualities of buddhas, teaching from Chapter 2.

Continuing explaining the ten powers of the Buddha, covering 4-9, teaching from Chapter 2.

Explaining the four kinds of self-confidence and the first three of the ten powers, teaching from Chapter 2.

Finishing the section of Final and Provisional Refuges, and explaining the Three Jewels According to the Vajra Vehicle, from Chapter 1.

Describing the difference between the Three Jewels and the objects of refuge, both final and provisional.

Explaining the eight qualities of sangha jewel found in Maitreya’s Sublime Continuum, teaching from Chapter 1.

Explaining the eight excellent qualities of the dharma jewel found in Maitreya’s Sublime Continuum, teaching from Chapter 1.

Explaining the context for understanding the eight qualities of the dharma jewel, teaching from Chapter 1.

Explaining the eight excellent qualities of the Buddha Jewel found in Maitreya’s Sublime Continuum, teaching from Chapter 1.

Describing the qualities of the three jewels based on the perfection vehicle, teaching from Chapter 1.

Describing the qualities of the three jewels, giving commentary on the Jewel Sutra and explaining nirvana, from Chapter 1.

Explaining the reasons for taking refuge, mind's potential and existence of the three jewels, teaching from Chapter 1.

Commencing teaching from Volume 4, "Following in the Buddha's Footsteps", providing an overview of the book and the three objects of refuge.

Concluding teaching from the text, "Samsara, Nirvana and Buddha Nature", covering the topic are we already buddhas from Chapter 14.

Describing the clear and cognizant nature of the mind and innate clear light mind, covering the subsequent sections in Chapter 14.

Explaining how the uninterrupted path leads to liberated path, transforming buddha nature and the third factor of the tathagatagarbha, nature of the clear light mind according to Tantra and the meaning the verse by Nagarjuna, from the sections in Chapter 14.

Explaining how the progression of teachings in the three turnings of the wheel presents the clear light mind from different perspectives, leading us to enter Tantra in order to understand how to actualize such a mind, from the sections "The Three Turnings of the Dharma Wheel and Buddha Nature" and "A Link between Sūtra and Tantra", from Chapter 14, "Going Deeper into Buddha Nature"

Explaining the four puzzling points, from the section, "A Puzzle", in Chapter 13.