{"id":449,"date":"2022-08-20T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/?p=449"},"modified":"2022-10-03T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:55:13","slug":"samsara-nirvana-and-buddha-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/20\/samsara-nirvana-and-buddha-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-450\" width=\"372\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/6.jpg 331w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/6-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe material in this volume is invaluable for those who sincerely wish to understand the Buddhist path and begin to follow it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014Venerable Sangye Khadro, author of How to Meditate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third volume in the Dalai Lama\u2019s definitive and comprehensive series on the stages of the Buddhist path, The Library of Wisdom and Compassion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowledge of buddha nature reveals and reconciles the paradox of how the mind can be the basis for both the duhkha of samsara (the unpurified mind) and the bliss and fulfillment of nirvana (the state of true freedom and peace). To illustrate this, Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature first takes readers through Buddhist thought on the self, the four truths, and their sixteen attributes. It then explains afflictions\u2014including how they arise and their antidotes\u2014followed by an examination of karma and cyclic existence, and, finally, a deep and thorough elucidation of buddha nature. Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature shows us how to purify our minds and cultivate awakened qualities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis book is a veritable tour de force in its explanation of the role of the mind in samsara and the realization of nirvana, which is the mind\u2019s own ultimate nature. In its examination of buddha nature\u2014spanning early discussions of the mind\u2019s potential in the Pali canon through to the teachings of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection\u2014it casts a bright light to dispel the darkness of materialism, which deludedly reduces the mind to a mere epiphenomenon or emergent property of the brain. Books such as this are urgently needed to trigger a true revolution in the mind sciences.\u201d\u2014B. Alan Wallace, founder and president, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Published By Wisdom Publications, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature \u201cThe material in this volume is invaluable for those who sincerely wish to understand the Buddhist path and begin to follow it.\u201d \u2014Venerable Sangye Khadro, author of How to Meditate The third volume in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}