Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary; 03-September-2007 (Day 1 of 3; Afternoon) - Dalai Lama Audio Teachings on Tibetan Buddhism Podcast

In the Commentary on Bodhicitta, Nagarjuna addresses intelligent students who require evidence that enlightenment is possible before they can generate the awakening mind aspiring to benefit all beings. His Holiness expands on the concise verses that set forth the Madhyamika (Middle Way tenet system) view of ultimate reality by addressing topics including the lack of an eternal, autonomous, unitary self (atman) and logical fallacies in assertions of ultimate truth presented in other Buddhist tenet systems (Vaibashika, Sautrantrika and Cittamatrin/Mind Only). Kamalishila’s Middling Stages of Meditation presents the method for transforming suffering into enlightenment by inducing direct meditative experience of the wisdom antidote to ignorance grasping at cyclic existence. Commenting on this, His Holiness elaborates on topics such as: types and methods of meditation, dependent origination, cause and effect, wisdom of ultimate reality, nature of mind, universal compassion, meditation on the Four Noble Truths, and cultivation of bodhicitta.