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The Essence of Awakening
Unit 1: Philosophy as Practice
Welcome to The Essence of Awakening
About John Dunne (5:53)
A Meditation to Settle the Mind (5:33)
Downloads
The Role of Philosophy (17:32)
Check Your Understanding
Philosophy as a Practice (3:34)
Contemplation: Sensory Experience and Dissatisfaction
Meditation: Meta Awareness (14:10)
What Is Philosophy For? (5:24)
Reflect
Discussion
Summary
Unit 2: The Illusion of Self
Introduction
Neither One Nor Many (13:13)
The Illusion of a Self (9:55)
The Aggregates
Discussion
The History of Buddhist Philosophy (6:00)
The Problem with Relation (7:36)
Check Your Understanding
Reflect
Meditation: Seeing Thoughts as Thoughts (15:07)
Summary
Unit 3: Exploring Emptiness
Introduction
Shifting toward a Philosophy of Emptiness (12:16)
What Is Emptiness? (9:10)
The Endpoint of Nāgārjuna's Analysis (5:59)
Contemplation
Is the Problem Ignorance or Attachment? (6:24)
Nāgārjuna's Analysis of Time (5:35)
Ignorance Is the Root Cause of Suffering (11:04)
Meditation: An Example of Philosophical Contemplation (11:12)
Optional Philosophical Practice: Desire and the Desirous
Discussion
Check Your Understanding
Reflect
Summary
Unit 4: The Nature of Experience
Introduction
Yogacara Philosophy (18:53)
Recognizing that Appearances Are the Mind Itself (5:57)
Contemplate
What Is Our Experience a Representation of? (18:52)
Check Your Understanding
Discussion
Grounding Visualization (12:30)
Summary
Unit 5: Moving Beyond Subject-Object Duality
Introduction
The Yogācāra Model of Cognition (14:53)
Reflect
Seeing the World without Subject-Object Duality (12:48)
Contemplation
What Is It Like to Know Emptiness? (6:44)
The Essence of the Buddha Is Within You (3:47)
Check Your Understanding
Meditation: Shamatha without an Object (15:07)
Discussion
Summary
Unit 6: Great Compassion
Introduction
The Need for Great Compassion (20:49)
Contemplation
Compassion Replaces Ignorance (7:06)
Reflect
Three Levels of Compassion (9:27)
Discussion
Mahāmudrā and Dzogchen (18:47)
Check Your Understanding
Meditation: Deepening Compassion (19:02)
Unit 6: Summary
End-of-Course Summary (9:55)
Discover Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Refer a Friend
Your Next Course (0:46)
Resources
Understanding Where We Are (4:11)
Three Important Lists (13:18)
Prayers (0:49)
Glossary
Live Call 1 (62:01)
Live Call 2 (62:12)
Optional Philosophical Practice: Desire and the Desirous
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