Je Tsongkhapa's Song of the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment; 25-September-2008 (Day 1 of 3; Morning) - Dalai Lama Audio Teachings on Tibetan Buddhism Podcast

His Holiness speaks in English. He explains the biological and social benefits of the warm-hearted compassion that is promoted by secular human values and by the religious traditions of theism and non-theistic Buddhism. He presents the responses of theistic and non-theistic religions to three great spiritual questions: What is the self? Does the self have a beginning? Does the self have an End? In answering these questions, he speaks of his own experiences; warm-heartedness as a counter to depression, anxiety and fear; suffering as the result of mistaking deceptive appearances for reality; and of the profound yogic post-clinical death meditation being practiced at this time by the former Gaden Tripa.