Jun 15, 2015
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37 Practices: Verses 17-19
When things are going really well or when there are difficult problems, the bodhisattva practices…
View Post37 Practices: Verses 11-16
The bodhisattva practices describe practical ways to use adverse circumstances for Dharma practice and to…
View PostOur capacity for kindness
Cultivating compassion for specific groups of people and how this inner work transforms our everyday…
View Post37 Practices: Verses 9-10
How to expand our motivation beyond attaining a good rebirth to liberation and awakening to…
View PostBecoming our own best friend
How to cultivate a healthy long-term friendship with ourselves. Learning to recognize the self-centered thought…
View Post37 Practices: Verses 4-8
Looking at "bad" friends who take us away from the Dharma and cherishing the spiritual…
View PostDeveloping compassion
Definition of compassion and the conditions we already have in place to cultivate it.
View Post37 Practices: Verses 1-3
When we realize the value of a precious human life we will feel like a…
View PostMeditation and review on seeing the kindness of all ...
Kindness is all around us and we can condition ourselves to see it in every…
View PostAbandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 1
Review of the first five of the ten non-virtuous pathways: killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying,…
View PostConnecting with incarcerated women in Indonesia
Reflections on a visit together with Venerable Thubten Chodron to a women's prison in Indonesia.
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