Aug 30, 2012

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Mind and Awareness

Taking refuge

Old habitual reactions can be transformed by turning towards our practice.

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Transforming War and Terrorism

Healing from a war

Reflections on a Time Magazine article on how more U.S. soldiers have died by suicide…

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Mind and Awareness

Divisions of selfless: Consciousness

What comprises the primary mind and mental factors that govern our actions and experience.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2012

Pure teaching of Dharma

When people show respect to you as a monastic, consider that they are bowing to…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2012

“Connected Discourses with Kassapa”

To implode our field of attachment and aversion while expanding our field of love and…

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Practicing Democracy

A balanced mind in an election year

Cultivating equanimity towards people whose political views we disagree with.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2012

Monasticism meeting modernity

With Buddhism going global, different cultures and values might influence how we apply the precepts…

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Thubten Chodron

Monastic life

Photos from early years as a nun and at Sravasti Abbey.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2012

Sangha and community living

Buddha's reasons for establishing a four-fold sangha and the benefits of monastic community living.

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Mind and Awareness

Divisions of selfless: Forms

Summary of division of selfless related to appearances that we can perceive through senses and…

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