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A Weekend with Chenrezig Retreat (Phoenicia 2007)

Teachings given during a two-day retreat on Cultivating a Compassionate Heart: The Yoga Method of Chenrezig at Menla Center in Phoenicia.

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Bleeding heart flowers in the Sravasti Abbey garden.

Introduction to Chenrezig practice

An overview of the practice of Chenrezig, explaining the meaning and purpose of visualization and what compassion is, how it counteracts the judgmental mind.

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Bleeding heart flowers in the Sravasti Abbey garden.

Chenrezig retreat discussion: Part 1

Being kind and skillful yet incredibly firm. Being an effective, capable human being, not a doormat. Treating others with respect.

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Bleeding heart flowers in the Sravasti Abbey garden.

Chenrezig retreat discussion: Part 2

A discussion on the many aspects of karma; purifying negative actions through four opponent powers.

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Bleeding heart flowers in the Sravasti Abbey garden.

Eight verses of thought transformation

How to transform adversity into the path.

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Bleeding heart flowers in the Sravasti Abbey garden.

Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 1-3

Seeing others as karmic bubbles in order to loosen our rigid conception of them.

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Bleeding heart flowers in the Sravasti Abbey garden.

Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 4-5

Looking into our hearts, seeing that we all want happiness and we do not want suffering.

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