Jun 18, 2011
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Living in solitude and living in community
How community life provides the container for someone to receive the full benefits of monastic…
View PostPurifying interferences
A purifying prayer to remove hindrances to our understanding and practice.
View PostValentine’s Day at Oregon State Prison
Accompanying Venerable Chodron and watching her talk to incarcerated people helps to see their qualities…
View PostBuddhism in modern society
The teaching principles of the Buddha can be applied to many things in our modern…
View PostIgnorance of the ego
A person in prison reflects on the effects of understanding the Buddha's teachings.
View PostPrison poetry I
Poems written by several people associated with the prison Dharma outreach program.
View PostBeing emptiness
A meditation on the "Heart Sutra" and the concepts of emptiness and selflessness.
View PostWhat the Buddha taught
A person in prison reflects on the meaning of refuge and the joyfulness of awakening.
View PostTeaching children by example
Actions speak louder than words. Our children will learn loving-kindness, forgiveness, and patience only though…
View PostIntoxicants
The tragedies that resulted from choices an incarcerated person made as a young man.
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