While the foundational approach involves fighting anger with its opposite --patience-- we can also use anger to overcome anger.

The Mahayana approach to the problem of desire is to realize that what we really desire is the end of desire.

Desire, defined by one text as the inability to discriminate, clouds our innate wisdom. The foundational method for combatting it is through renunciation.

Lama Marut reviews the classical arguments for emptiness and interdependence and the importance of compassion complementing intellectual wisdom.

While the Vajrayana emphasis is mainly on non-conceptual wisdom, it presupposes the foundational path’s cultivation of better concepts about reality.

Cindy Lee reviews the Vajrayana understanding of non-conceptual natural wisdom and the gestures (mudras) and speech (mantras) that embody and express it.

Cindy Lee explains the meaning of “mandala” as a cosmic mapping of the suffering world and the creative workshop for transforming it.

All forms of suffering can be traced to one or another of the five principal mental afflictions, and Buddhism offers three different strategies for dealing with them: opposing them with their opposites, compassion, and the Vajrayana method of transformati

Lama Marut explains some of the basic assumptions of the Vajrayana teaching on the Five Buddha Families, including the crucial idea that there is no inherent difference between the suffering world and the enlightened one.

Spiritually validated ways for thinking about the future in the here and now.