Apr 28, 2000

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Making flawless syllogisms

Debate teaches us how to make flawless syllogisms that help to reveal our mistaken ways…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

The comparison of phenomena

Debate teaches us how to compare different phenomena so that we can understand how things…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Conceptual and nonconceptual minds

Debate helps us to see the bare facts of the situation and distinguish them from…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Meet people where they are

Encouraging those who learn debate to speak in ways that meet others where they are…

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The shadow of a man sitting on the floor and shadows of window grills.
Prison Dharma

Offering precepts in prison

Connecting with an incarcerated person leads to offering precepts in an Ohio prison.

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Many emotional words - depressed, sorrow, hurting, upset, hurting, miserable, grieving, affliction etc. in black background.
Science and Buddhism

The Mind and Life VIII conference: Destructive emotions

A perennial human predicament: the nature and destructive potential of “negative” emotions.

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu giving a speech.
Interfaith Dialogue

Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Seattle

Reflections on the continued peace effort following the end of apartheid.

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Preparing for Ordination

Vorbereitung fur die Ordination

Reflektionen für Westler, die eine monastische Ordination in der tibetisch-buddhistischen Tradition erwägen

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