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Lesson 30
Lesson 30
The Sutra of Great Liberation
Awakening
Confession
dharma protection
faith
growingup
Healing
mantra
repentance
Spirituality
transformation
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Overview
Chapters
00:00
Honoring the Lineage: Tapping into the Source of Wisdom
00:35
Preparing for a long session: the importance of mental readiness
01:00
Generating bodhicitta and listening in stillness
01:14
Revisiting Siṃhaghoṣa Bodhisattva’s ultimate teachings
01:48
The Buddha’s constant presence and the universality of tathāgatagarbha
02:16
All vehicles merge into one: the mother of all Mahāyāna sūtras
03:01
The sūtra as the eye of practitioners and antidote to wrong views
03:53
Protecting the Dharma: what it really means
05:03
The power of mantra and the role of intensive practice
07:02
Overcoming obstacles and the reality of spiritual setbacks
10:02
The Buddha’s praise for protecting the sūtra and the Three Jewels
12:33
The significance of aspiration and the limits of lifespan
13:12
The origin and recitation of the great dhāraṇī mantra
14:01
The merit of reciting and circumambulating for seven days
17:02
Repentance, purification, and the challenge of self-awareness
23:33
The core of this sūtra: principles of repentance
29:52
The transformative power of faith and the role of spiritual friends
34:00
The confession before the Buddha: refuge and prostration to the ten directions
42:02
Taking refuge in Buddhas, bodhisattvas, Dharma, and the sangha
47:01
Inviting all witnesses: repentance as a communal act
49:01
Closing and preview of the next session
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