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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Facing blame

Recognizing attachment to reputation and examining the mind's reaction when it is threatened.

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Living with an Open Heart

Healing with love and compassion

Counteracting the self-centered, self-grasping mind and confronting the emotional problems of this life through love…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Review 1 of Chapter 8: Verses 176-183

This first review on Chapter 8 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses…

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Buddhist Worldview

Changing our wrong conceptions

Our happiness and suffering are based on our habitual ways of thinking and on how…

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Wheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat 2014

Developing equanimity

What prevents and what would help us to develop equanimity. Looking at our own needs…

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Wheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat 2014

Cultivating positive habits

Learning how to change our habitual reactions and mental states and how to interact with…

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Wheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat 2014

Meditating on the results of karma

Advice on how to meditate on the verses followed by an examination of the results…

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Wheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat 2014

Cultivating clear communication

Examining our motivations for harsh or unkind speech, looking at ways to cultivate different habits…

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Wheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat 2014

The three poisons

The role of self-grasping ignorance, anger, and attachment in our relationships with others.

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Wheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat 2014

Changing habits through practice

Changing our habitual patterns through repeated practice, we can transform the most unpleasant circumstances into…

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