Oct 12, 2017
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Tips for practice
Venerable Thubten Tarpa covers advice for engaging in the comparison of phenomena, as per the…
View PostAmitabha practice: The four immeasurables
How to generate the four immeasurables as part of the Amitabha practice.
View PostAmitabha practice: Refuge and bodhicitta
Explanation of the Amitabha practice, beginning with taking refuge, in preparation for the Abbey's upcoming…
View PostWe are all prisoners
We are prisoners of our own minds. Ignorance, anger, and attachment are every bit as…
View PostGenuine compassion
Compassion is an internal attitude that can be deliberately cultivated through practice. Reflection on bringing…
View PostHow things appear and how they exist
The way things appear to us is not the way they exist. To attain liberation…
View PostThe results of virtue and nonvirtue
In order to create the causes for upper rebirth and awakening it's important to discern…
View PostThe advantages of living ethically
Ethical conduct is primary cause of higher rebirth. Developing ethical conduct involves abandoning thirteen activities…
View PostThe causes and effects of higher rebirth
A series of good rebirths that allow Dharma practice is necessary to attain awakening. Nagarjuna…
View PostMore on joyous effort
Venerable Thubten Damcho continues the review of joyous effort, covering discouragement, faith, and favorable conditions
View PostWas the Buddha an activist?
A commentary on verses from “Precious Garland” describes how a government based on Dharma principles…
View PostMutually inclusive phenomena
Venerable Thubten Tarpa teaches on mutually inclusive phenomena and reviews mutually exclusive phenomena
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