Green Tara

How to do the practice of Tara the liberator, our buddha potential in its future fully purified and evolved form.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

What it means to do retreat

We have to understand what retreat means. We are retreating from dukkha, from suffering, not…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Living within the five precepts

It is important to keep good ethical conduct while in retreat. Living according to the…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Motivation for the retreat

Generating the proper motivation for doing retreat and examining ways to work with the mind,…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Tara’s qualities

One way we can think of Tara is as the physical manifestation of a Buddha's…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Tara as resultant refuge

It's encouraging to think of Tara as the Buddha that we are going to become.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Lamrim meditation in Tara sadhana

Tara gives us inspiration while we're meditating during the sadhana. She is a representation of…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Seasons change

The seasons change, a vivid example of impermanence. Calling a day the first day of…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

How to see Tara

It is incorrect to project human qualities on Tara or see her as a theistic…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Tara’s wisdom

Further explanations of doing the Tara sadhana and what different sections mean. The various kinds…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

The pitfalls of perfectionism

Developing conviction in the Dharma teachings and how to approach the Dharma in a constructive…

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