May 13, 2010
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Establishing selflessness
Three mistaken approaches to determining selflessness and the order for establishing selflessness.
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Mindfulness and introspective awareness
The importance of mindfulness and introspective awareness in our everyday lives.
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Six perfections and three higher trainings
What makes the three higher trainings higher--rather than just ordinary--is the long-term motivation of attaining…
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Higher training in ethics
How ethical discipline is the foundation on which concentration and wisdom are built. Taking precepts…
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Ethics, concentration, and wisdom
Practicing the three higher trainings, which are practices imbued with refuge in the Three Jewels…
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The root of samsara
How things and self are merely imputed by thought and how ignorance is the root…
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Thubten Jampel Friendship
The importance of cultivating positive relationships. How we can love others without being attached to…
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Venerable Thubten Chonyi Review: Teachings on emptiness
A review of the beginning of the section on cultivating ultimate bodhicitta: creating the causes…
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Joy and courage
Continuing the discussion on joy and courage, and a discussion on verses about love and…
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Transforming depression and anxiety
Recognizing how thoughts fuel emotions, how happiness and suffering originate within the mind, and cultivating…
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Venerable Thubten Tarpa Review: Bodhicitta and the afflictions
A review of the end of the section on cultivating conventional bodhicitta and the meaning…
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Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha
Paying homage to Shakyamuni Buddha before receiving teachings. The chant was recorded by the Sravasti…
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