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“Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature”: The mind’s potential
Nirvana is not a place but a state of mind attained by internal transformation. The fact that we have buddha nature allows us to go from samsara ...
New! “The Compassionate Kitchen”
How eating and activities related to it—preparing food, offering and consuming it, and cleaning up—can wake us up and increase our kindness and care for others.
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Not diminishing ourselves
Being careful, carefully examining our motivation before mentioning the faults of others.
The mirror of the Dharma
Venerable Sangye Khadro talks about being authentic, which is to look at our errors, and do something about them.
Cultivating Amitabha’s attitude
Bringing the mind in line with Amitabha’s way of thinking means cultivating an attitude that cherishes all living beings and generating love and compassion.
The emptiness of the giver, the giving, and the receiver
Venerable Sangye Khadro continues with Verse 30 of the “37 Practices of Bodhisattvas,” discussing the perfection of wisdom.
Review of the possibility of ending duhkha
Venerable Thubten Jampa leads a review of the section “The Possibility of Ending Duhkha” on pages 36-38.
What is the mind?
Venerable Sangye Khadro covers the definition of awareness and the divisions of awareness into sense vs. mental consciousnesses and perceptions vs. conception.
Developing concentration takes practice
How concentration is not easy, but we keep working at it.
Joyous effort, not perfection
Joyous effort and the three types of laziness and their antidotes.
What patience feels like
Venerable Sangye Khadro continues on Verse 27 of the “37 Practices of Bodhisattvas,” comparing patience versus anger, and feeling the difference between them.
Is the Buddha’s word always spoken by the Buddha?
Three sections in Chapter 5, including proving that the Mahayana sutras are the words of the Buddha, and Pali and Sanskrit views on liberation.