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The Five Aggregates (Skandhas)
The so-called five aggregates describe the individual aspects that build our personality. These explanations work against the illusion, of mind consisting of an unchangeable unity. When this illusion dissolves, one reaches liberation from all suffering, liberation from the cycle of existence.

How Real is Reality? 
Buddhist epistemology examines the relation between the perceived object and the perceiving subject. For who experiences and what is experienced are always interdependent. Buddhism explains how to eliminate an erroneous way of perceiving.

Beyond the Extremes - the Great Middle Way
The teachings of the Great Middle Way say that the material world is void of an ultimately existing reality, and that the beings do not have a truly existing personality. The aim of the Great Middle Way is to experience the unity of appearance and voidness in mediation.

The Twelve Links of Dependent Occurrance 
The teachings on the twelve links of dependent origination help exploring one's own consciousness and changing things. Thus, we are enabled to handle those problems, that arise from too stiff life patterns.

We Should Not Waste this Opportunity.
Khenpo Chodrak Rinpoche 
Having what we call a "precious human body" means that one has been born as a human and provided with certain freedoms and assets. Not only must one have the physical preconditions needed for Dharma practice, but also one must have a mind which includes the three different kinds of confidence...

The Ideas of the 16th Karmapa about the Development of the Dharma in the West.
Lama Jigme Rinpoche
Karmapa is a great Bodhisattva who developed through the course of history in the same way as the Buddha. First, he was an ordinary being who wanted to reach enlightenment. He practiced, developed further, and acted in the way of a bodhisattva....