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Lesson 28
The Vimalakirti Sutra 28 | How to Face Illness Without Fear
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Emptiness
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Overview
Chapters
00:00
Oral transmission and opening prayers
04:17
Beginning today’s teaching
18:55
Returning to The Vimalakirti Sutra
20:01
Two ways to approach illness
25:02
Why Vimalakīrti teaches how to comfort the sick
28:00
How to speak about impermanence without causing despair
30:02
Guiding beings like a dreamlike illusion
32:25
Illness, karma, and the mind
35:13
Comforting others through one’s own illness
39:00
Remembering merit and pure livelihood
40:23
Śāriputra comforts Anāthapiṇḍada
45:01
The mind as the key to healing
51:23
How an ill bodhisattva controls the mind
55:01
Illness arises from self-clinging
1:01:20
Transcending self, possession, and duality
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