Apr 30, 2017

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Cultivating Compassion

Meditating on taking and giving

Imagining taking on all the suffering of others in order to destroy our own self-centred…

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Venerable teaching.
Good Karma Short Retreats

Creating the causes for good results

Examining our behaviors and attitudes in pursuing happiness in order to abandon mistaken ways and…

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Venerable teaching.
Good Karma Short Retreats

Identifying the real source of our difficulties

Seeing self-centeredness and self-grasping as the source of our problems and counteracting them to find…

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Cultivating Compassion

Equanimity in daily life

How to fit the practice of equanimity into our daily lives, and outlining the taking-and-giving…

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Cultivating Compassion

Obstacles to compassion

Exploring the meditation on the kindness of others, and various obstacles to compassion, including the…

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Venerable teaching.
Good Karma Short Retreats

Understanding and transforming difficulties

When we find ourselves in difficult situations we can use the thought transformation teachings to…

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Cultivating Compassion

Meditating on equanimity

A meditation on equanimity, in which we imagine those whom we currently find challenging in…

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Venerable teaching.
Good Karma Short Retreats

Transforming the mind through taking and giving

Practicing taking and giving challenges our usual ways of thinking and helps us develop a…

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Cultivating Compassion

Composed compassion

How to take responsibility for cultivating compassion in our own lives.

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Venerable smiling while teaching.
Wheel of Sharp Weapons

“Good Karma”: Creating the causes for th...

Karma and its effects explains the link between actions and experiences. By changing our mental…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Gomchen Lamrim review: Cultivating compassion

Venerable Thubten Chonyi explores the concept of compassion by reviewing equalizing and exchanging self and…

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Ven. Tsepal standing with group of retreatants.
Living with Impermanence

Mindfulness of death and impermanence

Maintaining an awareness of death and impermanence brings energy to making our life meaningful and…

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