Mar 27, 2014

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Review of Chapter 7: Verses 151-155

A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapters 8-9: Verses 200-201

An explanation of the three kinds of compassion, dependent arising, making ourselves suitable vessels, and…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Living with loss

How to work with the emotions when we lose the things we are attached to.…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Verses 197-200

The relationship between realizing emptiness and generating bodhicitta, and why the end of afflictions is…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Ethics and right livelihood

A response to a student's question on what to do if one's loved ones are…

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

The mark of a successful life

Shows the different criteria that influence one's choice of profession and activities.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Self and emptiness

A discussion session that touches on the self-centered thought, how self-grasping ignorance produced afflictions, and…

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

Tobacco, firearms and food

Shares a New York Times opinion piece by Mark Bittman, and encourages us to reflect…

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

How renunciation brings happiness

Shares a message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche to the International Mahayana Institute sangha, and speaks…

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Worm crawling on concrete.
On Refuge and Bodhicitta

I saw a worm today

Scott transforms an ordinary event into a bodhisattva practice.

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