This lunatic child,
who lost his old mother long ago,
is about to realize by chance
what he has not recognized:
She has been with him all along!
–from Recognizing My Mother, Changkya Rölpai Dorjé
Knowing the ultimate nature of reality–the wisdom of emptiness–is a central pursuit on the Buddhist path. Yet clear understanding can seem difficult to access: subtle, hidden, beyond the realm of conceptual thinking. Geshe Kelsang Wangmo brings her years of Dharma scholarship to Shantideva Center, in a series of four teachings on the inspirational text Recognizing My Mother. Written in the 18th century by Changkya Rölpai Dorjé this concise text is a lyrical expression of what it feels like to uncover the nature of reality. Brimming with philosophy, it also points to how we ourselves might arrive at that understanding. Join Geshe Kelsang Wangmo as she teases out the philosophy from the wisdom lineage encoded in Recognizing My Mother, while admiring its lyrical beauty. Geshe-la is the perfect guide to this subject: having studied for two decades at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, Geshe Wangmo completed her thesis on the topic of dependent arising–after which she was awarded the first geshe degree given to a nun in 2011.
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