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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Working with the Tara sadhana

How to personalize the sadhana—and your meditation sessions—keeping it fresh during retreat.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Dependent arising: Dependence on parts

Meditation on the dependence of parts as a way of becoming familiar with the concept…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Teachings on emptiness

The type of person who is suitable to receive teachings on emptiness and the danger…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Dependent arising: Causal dependence

Meditation on causal dependence as a way of becoming familiar with the concept of dependent…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Dismantling personal identity

Examining how our mind puts parts together through a conceptual process and see the object…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Awareness of emptiness

The awareness of emptiness achieved during meditation can be strengthened by developing our concentration.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Distrust of false appearances

When we meditate on emptiness and begin to distrust the false appearance of inherent existence,…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Visualizing the object of meditation

How to visualize Tara during concentration, or shamatha, meditation, both front-generation and self-generation.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Fortitude and joyous effort

The importance of enthusiasm and perseverance in retreat and practice. Change comes slowly, but it…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Restricting the environment

The benefit of restricting the environment and keeping some distance from the objects that give…

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