Jun 30, 2021

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Stephen sitting outside in meditation posture, reading a Dharma book.
Dharma Poetry

Clarity, confidence and courage

Antidotes to the afflictions of confusion, self-doubt, and fear that hold us back in our…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Helping each other feel safe

How to identify when we do or do not feel safe, how to cultivate a…

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Cultivating the Four Immeasurables

Meditation on metta and safety

A guided analytical meditation on loving-kindness or metta, focusing on offering safety to friends, enemies…

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Nun smiling while meditating in a library.
Mindfulness

Buddhist mindfulness and secular mindfulness

The contemporary trend of mindfulness differs from the 2,500-year-old practice that was taught by the…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Clusters of afflictions

Teaching from Chapter 3, continuing with the auxiliary afflictions, describing those derived from ignorance and…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Giving our body and the Dharma

Discussing how to skillfully give our body and the Dharma for the benefit of ourselves…

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Meditation

How to meditate: An interview with Venerable Sangye ...

The main obstacles for beginners learning to meditate and how to overcome them to achieve…

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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: Seven types of mind and awareness

Explanation of the remaining five of the seven types of mind and the progression from…

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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: Direct perceivers and inferential co...

An explanation of the first two of the seven types of mind – direct perceivers…

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Ven. Damcho smiling.
Antidotes to Afflictions

Meditation on coping with fear and anxiety

Guided meditation to look at what triggers fear and anxiety and how to cope with…

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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: Perception and conception

The conditions that lead to a conceptual mind. The division of minds into perception and…

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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: What is the mind?

Why it’s important to understand the mind, the mind and happiness and suffering, the nature…

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