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Online Buddhism course: Awakening Dharma | Beginner
The Beginner course contains 88 lessons across three pillars: Peace, Harmony, and Wholeness. It is the foundational learning library for entering Awakening Dharma in a systematic way.
What is inside the Beginner course?
The Beginner course is Level 1 of the Awakening Path. It has 3 parts, 88 teachings, delivered as online video, arranged along three pillars:
- Part I — Peace: 38 lessons
- Part II — Harmony: 20 lessons
- Part III — Wholeness: 30 lessons
The baseline rhythm is ten minutes a day through Inti Dharma, with bilingual Vietnamese–English scriptures, meditation, quizzes, and flashcards. Lessons are taught in Vietnamese; the scripture library is bilingual.
Part I — Peace: 38 lessons on body-mind, karma, and meditation
The opening part moves from the question "Who am I?" through the foundational teachings — the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, Dependent Origination — and into meditation practice and awakened living.
I. Peace 38 lessons
- The timeless question: Who am I?
- A life spent searching for meaning
- Where we belong
- Who writes the script of your life
- Who is steering the wheel of your life
- What spirituality is
- Why the mind is not at peace
- Nothing lasts forever
- Why old patterns repeat
- Why good people still suffer
- Karma and reincarnation
- Which karmas shape your life
- Does karma choose us, or do we choose karma?
- The Four Noble Truths, Part 1: Suffering
- The Four Noble Truths, Part 2: Cause
- The Four Noble Truths, Part 3: Cessation
- The Four Noble Truths, Part 4: Path
- The Noble Eightfold Path, Part 1: Ethics
- The Noble Eightfold Path, Part 2: Concentration
- The Noble Eightfold Path, Part 3: Wisdom
- The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination, Part 1
- The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination, Part 2
- Where are the six realms of rebirth?
- Why modern people need meditation more than ever
- What meditation truly is
- What meditation is not
- Essential guidance for meditators
- Awakening Meditation
- Can meditation truly solve problems?
- Come and See: the foundational spirit of a practitioner
- How to build a meditation habit
- From negative emotions to inner freedom
- Peace in adversity: seeing events with meditative eyes
- Mindfulness and Awakening: two yet one
- Ethics, Concentration, Wisdom
- Becoming a person who lives awake
- Gratitude is a Dharma practice
- Human life needs only this one word
Part II — Harmony: 20 lessons on relationships and inner energy
This part moves from harmony within to harmony without: returning to body, mind, and intellect and the layers of inner energy, then opening into love, family, community, and all beings.
II. Harmony 20 lessons
- Body, mind, and intellect: the journey back to oneself
- Chakras: gateways of energy
- How to practice with the chakras
- Returning to the true home
- There is a universe within you
- The Buddha is not far away
- Uniting the masculine and feminine within
- Uniting the light and shadow within
- Past-Life Regression: the soul's journey of remembering
- Happiness from within
- What we resist is often what life brings us
- When conflict and gossip become opportunities for growth
- Living in a way that honors one another
- Harmony in romantic love
- Harmony in family
- Harmony with community and society
- Harmony with celestial beings and all life
- Forgiveness as the opening of a free heart
- Letting go: courage or avoidance?
- What do you want to be remembered for?
Part III — Wholeness: 30 lessons on insight and service
The final part enters insight — conventional and ultimate truth, the Five Aggregates, the Three Wisdoms — the six qualities of a practitioner, and how the Dharma enters work, community, science, and technology.
III. Wholeness 30 lessons
- What matters most in practice?
- What is Awakening Dharma?
- The Three Jewels and the Three Awakened Realms
- Applying Awakening Dharma to transform karmic force
- Conventional and Ultimate Truth: two layers of truth in one world
- The Five Aggregates: five layers covering true nature
- Five resources and five obstacles in practice
- The Three Wisdoms: three levels of wisdom in practice
- Is enlightenment the end of the path?
- The path of Peace, Harmony, and Wholeness
- Does releasing ego mean losing oneself?
- The journey of becoming a modern Buddha
- The quality of Faith
- The quality of Courage
- The quality of Steadfastness
- The quality of Integrity
- The quality of Simplicity
- The quality of Compassion
- The Four Immeasurables: loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity
- The Ten Paramitas: from Dharma student to Bodhisattva
- Right Vow: an arrow of light
- Mindfulness in daily life
- Vegetarian living from love for all beings
- Embodying Buddha nature in everyday life
- The workplace is also a practice hall
- Guidance from the Buddha Within
- Applying science and technology in practice
- Passing through death toward the realm of light
- Collective transformation and community awakening
- Wholeness: Awake and Complete
Where is the course studied?
Through the Inti Dharma app — the digital doorway for learners to enter Awakening Buddhism each day: study the 88 lessons, read bilingual scriptures, practice meditation, quizzes, flashcards, and nourish the path through a gamified journey.
Frequently asked questions
How many lessons are in the Beginner course?
88 lessons in three parts: Peace with 38 lessons, Harmony with 20 lessons, and Wholeness with 30 lessons.
How long does it take each day?
About ten minutes a day in the Inti Dharma app, combining lessons, bilingual Vietnamese–English scriptures, meditation, quizzes, and flashcards.
What language are the lessons in?
Lessons are taught in Vietnamese, and the scripture library in the Inti Dharma app is bilingual Vietnamese–English.