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Reaching out with the Dharma
Ways in which we can put our meditations on equanimity into practice to benefit others.
New! The Foundation of Buddhist Practice
Publication of Volume 2 of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion
Getting started
A quick guide to getting started with using ThubtenChodron.org.
The human story
Each person’s individual journey contains challenges and difficulties that, if met with courage, can cause the heart to grow.
Return to reality: Love and hate
Seemingly contradictory feelings can lead to the same prison, a prison of ignorance.
“An Open-Hearted Life”: Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions
How we can work over time to replace troublesome thoughts and emotions with more compassionate ones, and establish new, compassionate mental habits.
Mind and emotions
Beginning Chapter 3: Mind and Emotions, exploring the relationship between unhappiness and non-virtue.
Proving mutual inclusion
Explaining how to prove mutual inclusion, and leading the class in doing Exercises 11.1 and 11.2.
The possibility of ending duhkha
Covering the sections “Dependent Arising and the Three Jewels” and “The Possibility of Ending Duhkha.”
Purpose of a monastery
A discussion on ways in which the structure of monastery life serves to transform our minds.
The fixer
There is little we can do to correct injustice in the world if our minds are out of control with deluded thoughts and emotions.
Proving four possibilities and mutual exclusion
Covering the sections “Proving Four Possibilities” and “Proving Mutual Exclusion.”
The Teddy Bear Project
A surprise gift from a prison inmate for one of the Abbey’s volunteers.
