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37 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature: Virtue, Nonvirtue, Merit, and Roots of Nonvirtue 09-17-21

Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches on the five types of virtue found in Asanga’s “Compendium of Knowledge,” the five types of non-virtue, and the causes of the universe. She covers the Chapter 5 section “Virtue, Nonvirtue, Merit, and Roots of Virtue” and begins the section “The Origin of the Universe” in Chapter 6, “Karma, the Universe, and Evolution” (pp. 137-143).

Reference:
Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature
By Bhiksu Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
and
Bhiksuni Thubten Chodron
from the series: The Library of Wisdom and Compassion: Volume 3

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Comment by Luna Arjuna on September 26, 2021 at 7:26am

This is an excellent posting and teaching. Thank you very much.

Comment by Eva Libre on September 26, 2021 at 7:20am

The principal cause of happiness is virtue and the chief cause of suffering is non virtue.

- Venerable Thubten Chodron

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