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37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness
Bodhisattva Ethical Restraints
Bodhisattva Path
- “Supplement to the Middle way”
- 41 Prayers to Cultivate Bodhicitta
- 70 Topics: Application in complete aspects
- 70 Topics: Bodhicitta
- 70 Topics: Concentrations, absorptions, and bodhisattva grounds
- 70 Topics: Introduction
- 70 Topics: Introduction to application in complete aspects
- 70 Topics: Knower of all bases
- 70 Topics: Knower of paths
- 70 Topics: Mahayana instructions
- 70 Topics: Mahayana path of meditation
- 70 Topics: Mahayana paths
- 70 Topics: Peak application
- 70 Topics: The four applications and Buddhahood
- 70 Topics: The four buddha bodies
- A bodhisattva’s humility
- A joyous long-term vision
- Abandoning attachment
- Acting appropriately
- Advantages of bodhicitta
- Aggression, arrogance and grudges
- An introduction to grounds and paths
- Anger and forgiveness
- Antidotes to anger
- Asanga’s hearer’s grounds
- Aspirations for degenerate times
- Aspiring and engaging bodhicitta
- Attachment and anger
- Attachment hinders our concentration
- Attachment to body, friends, and family
- Attachment to the body
- Averting the causes of war
- Awakening joy
- Awareness of our body and speech
- Benefits of studying the grounds and paths
- Biting the hook of anger
- Bodhicitta makes life meaningful
- Bodhicitta, a vast perspective
- Bodhicitta: Gateway to the Mahayana path
- Bodhicitta: The jewel of the mind
- Bodhisattva aryas’ grounds
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: 6 causes of afflictions
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 11
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 25
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 35
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 45
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 46
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 12-15
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 16-18
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 19-22
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 2-4
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 22-24
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 26-29
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 30-33
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 34-35
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 36-38
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 39-41
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 4-5
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 41-43
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 43-44
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 6-7
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 8-10
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Introduction and vows 1-3
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Introduction and vows 1-3
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: The five hindrances
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vow 18 and auxiliary vow 1
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 12-14
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 15-17
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 4-5
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 6-8
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 9-11
- Bodhisattva grounds
- Bodhisattva grounds
- Bodhisattva grounds and paths
- Bodhisattva root downfalls 11-18
- Bodhisattva secondary misdeeds 1-9
- Bodhisattva secondary misdeeds 10-22
- Buddha’s life and Mahayana
- Buddha’s first precious teaching
- Buddhahood
- Buddhahood and individual liberation
- Buddhahood: Four buddha bodies
- Challenging the ego
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 1: Verse 1
- Chapter 1: Verses 2-6
- Chapter 1: Verses 7-36
- Chapter 2: Verses 1-6
- Chapter 2: Verses 24-39
- Chapter 2: Verses 40-65
- Chapter 2: Verses 7-23
- Chapter 3: Verses 1-3
- Chapter 3: Verses 10-20
- Chapter 3: Verses 22-33
- Chapter 3: Verses 4-10
- Chapter 4: Verses 1-8
- Chapter 4: Verses 17-26
- Chapter 4: Verses 9-16
- Chapter 5: Verses 1-16
- Chapter 5: Verses 17-33
- Chapter 5: Verses 34-54
- Chapter 6 Verses 46-55
- Chapter 6 Verses 56-72
- Chapter 6 Verses 73-82
- Chapter 6 Verses 83-133
- Chapter 6: Verses 1-3
- Chapter 6: Verses 1-7
- Chapter 6: Verses 10-12
- Chapter 6: Verses 112-118
- Chapter 6: Verses 119-126
- Chapter 6: Verses 12-16
- Chapter 6: Verses 127-134
- Chapter 6: Verses 17-26
- Chapter 6: Verses 22-31
- Chapter 6: Verses 27-38
- Chapter 6: Verses 31-45
- Chapter 6: Verses 39-51
- Chapter 6: Verses 4-9
- Chapter 6: Verses 52-65
- Chapter 6: Verses 66-86
- Chapter 6: Verses 8-21
- Chapter 6: Verses 87-97
- Chapter 6: Verses 98-111
- Chapter 7: Verses 1-15
- Chapter 7: Verses 15-30
- Chapter 7: Verses 31-49
- Chapter 7: Verses 50-58
- Chapter 7: Verses 59-76
- Chapter 8: Verses 1-3
- Chapter 8: Verses 1–6
- Chapter 8: Verses 4-7
- Cherishing others
- Cherishing our enemies
- Childish sentient beings
- Commentary on the author’s introduction
- Common and uncommon afflictions
- Compassion as cause of bodhisattvas
- Compassion conjoined with wisdom
- Compassion for difficult people
- Competition and exchanging self with others
- Concentration and wisdom
- Conscientiousness
- Contemplating karma and its effects
- Conventional consciousness
- Counteracting anger
- Counteracting laziness
- Courage in the face of harm
- Courage to practice
- Crises in monastic life
- Cultivating positive states of mind
- Day 1: Questions and answers
- Day 1: Questions and answers
- Day 2: Questions and answers
- Day 2: Questions and answers
- Day 3: Questions and answers
- Debating impermanence
- Debating with anger
- Declaring my faults & praising others
- Dependent arising and bodhicitta
- Determining to practice patience
- Developing equanimity
- Developing three kinds of compassion
- Different kinds of refuge
- Diligence and concentration
- Disadvantages of discarding bodhicitta
- Disadvantages of miserliness
- Dispelling all suffering
- Distracted by the causes for pain
- Divisions of bodhisattva grounds
- Don’t misunderstand Shantideva
- Enacting others’ welfare
- Enough childish behavior!
- Equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Equalizing self and other ultimately
- Equalizing self and others
- Equanimity
- Equanimity
- Equanimity and bodhicitta
- Everyone wants happiness
- Exchanging our bodies with others
- Existence of person and obscurations
- Explanation of the middle way view
- Facing harm with fortitude
- Far-reaching ethical conduct
- Far-reaching fortitude
- Far-reaching generosity
- Far-reaching joyous effort
- Far-reaching meditative stabilization and wisdom
- First bodhisattva ground: The Very Joyful
- First ground of bodhisattva superiors
- Fortitude and diligence
- Fortitude for those who cause harm
- Four opponent powers
- Four opponent powers
- Freedoms and fortunes of a precious human life
- Freeing ourselves from negativity
- Fundamental and Universal Vehicles
- Fundamental Vehicle grounds and paths
- Generating regret
- Generating wisdom
- Giving our body and the Dharma
- Giving ourselves to others
- Giving up attachment
- Giving up desire
- Guarding the mind
- Hearer’s path and nirvana
- Hearer’s path of accumulation
- Hearer’s path of preparation, seeing, and meditation
- Hearers and solitary realizers
- Help and harm
- Homage to Compassion
- Homage to great compassion
- How the afflictions deceive us
- How to act when afflictions arise
- How to think like a bodhisattva
- Illusion or illusion like
- Imagining our death and pacifying distractions
- Inspiring the heart on the path
- Introduction and homage
- Introduction: Cultivating bodhicitta daily
- Intrusive conditions and incompatible propensities
- Isolation of body and mind
- It’s unreasonable to be angry
- Jealousy
- Joy and rest as supports for joyous effort
- Joyful effort
- Joyfully engaging in virtue
- Joyous effort, concentration & wisdom
- Joyous effort, ignorance, and laziness
- Keeping the promise of bodhicitta
- Kindness and the benefits of engaged bodhicitta
- Living in the jaws of death
- Mahayana grounds and paths
- Mahayana path introduction
- Mahayana path of accumulation
- Mahayana path of meditation
- Mahayana path of preparation
- Mahayana path of seeing
- Making effort with joy
- Making effort, joyfully
- Making sensuous offerings to the Buddhas
- Meditation on equanimity
- Meditation on taking the bodhisattva vow
- Mind-generation with Venerable Sangye Khadro, Part 1
- Mind-generation with Venerable Sangye Khadro, Part 2
- Mindfulness and fear
- Mindfulness and introspective awareness
- Motivations behind giving
- Natural nirvana and actual nirvana
- No real owner of suffering
- Objects of great compassion
- Offering natural substances
- Offering our bodies to all sentient beings
- Offering ourselves to the Buddhas
- Opposing the self-centered thought
- Others are as important as ourselves
- Others have been kind
- Outshining hearers and solitary realizers
- Outshining through intelligence
- Overcoming afflictions
- Overcoming discouragement
- Paramita of ethical conduct
- Paramita of fortitude
- Paramita of generosity
- Path of seeing
- Paths of accumulation and preparation
- People do not learn by suffering
- Perfection of generosity: Do we really own anything?
- Perfection of generosity: Generosity in everyday situations
- Perfection of generosity: Generosity in the Jataka Tales
- Perfection of generosity: Giving fearlessly
- Perfection of generosity: Learning to connect with everybody
- Perfection of generosity: Non-material giving
- Perfection of generosity: Offering our universe
- Perfection of generosity: Pure and impure giving
- Perfection of generosity: The benefits of giving wisely
- Perfection of generosity: What makes generosity sincere
- Pleasing sentient beings
- Practical advice on manners
- Practicing joyous effort
- Practicing the Dharma with bodhicitta
- Practitioners of great scope
- Praise and reputation
- Praise and reputation
- Precious human life
- Preparing the mind for tonglen
- Purification of misdeeds with Q&A
- Pushed by our afflictions
- Putting the dharma into practice
- Qualities of bodhisattva ground 7
- Qualities of bodhisattva grounds 2-3
- Qualities of bodhisattva grounds 4-6
- Qualities of bodhisattva grounds 8-10
- Quiz 1: Hearer’s grounds and paths
- Quiz 2: Mahayana grounds and paths
- Quiz 3: Grounds and paths
- Realizing emptiness by hearers and solitary realizers
- Recollecting the Buddha
- Refuting a primal substance and independent self
- Refuting self-cognition
- Refuting the realists
- Regretting negativity by reflecting on death
- Rejoicing in others’ qualities
- Removing barriers to forgiveness
- Requesting teachings and our teachers to remain
- Resolute and stable
- Resolving to overcome our afflictions
- Respecting sentient beings
- Retaliation
- Review of bodhicitta
- Review of Chapter 1
- Review of Chapter 2
- Review of Chapter 3
- Review of Chapter 4
- Review of Chapter Five: “Guarding Alertness”
- Review of Chapter Five: “Guarding Alertness”, part two
- Review of Chapter Nine: Verses 1-4
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 1-11
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 12-21
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 22-34
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 36-40
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 40-42
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 43-44
- Review of the two truths
- Review Quiz 1: Question 6
- Review Quiz 1: Questions 1-5
- Review Quiz 1: Questions 7-8
- Review Quiz 1: Questions 9-10
- Review Quiz 2: Questions 1-2
- Review Quiz 2: Questions 3-4
- Review Quiz 2: Questions 5-6
- Review Quiz 2: Questions 7-8
- Review Quiz 3: Questions 1-4
- Review Quiz 3: Questions 13-16
- Review Quiz 3: Questions 5-8
- Review Quiz 3: Questions 9-12
- Review session: Bodhisattva paths and grounds
- Review session: Bodhisattvas outshine through intelligence
- Review session: Coarse and subtle selflessness
- Review session: Compassion, impermanence and emptiness
- Review session: Identifying the root of samsara
- Review session: The first two bodhisattva grounds
- Review session: Three types of compassion
- Root bodhisattva downfalls
- Secondary misdeeds 23-32
- Secondary misdeeds 33-46
- Self-confidence
- Selflessness of phenomena
- Seven amazing feats of Shantideva
- Seven-point cause and effect
- Special verse: Oceans of merit
- Steadfastness
- Steadfastness and self-confidence
- Summary and review of Chapter 2
- Summary of the Fundamental Vehicle
- Sustaining a steady Dharma practice
- Taking and giving
- Taking pleasure in bad actions
- Taking the bodhisattva ethical restraint
- Taming the mind: Questions and answers
- Tenets review
- The advantages of bodhicitta
- The benefits of bodhichitta
- The benefits of bodhicitta
- The benefits of difficulties
- The bodhisattva ethical code
- The bodhisattva ideal
- The body is not beautiful
- The courage to destroy the afflictions
- The danger of anger
- The danger of attachment to the body
- The defects of anger
- The disadvantages of samsara
- The enemy of the afflictions
- The ethical conduct of gathering virtue and benefiting sentient beings
- The ethical conduct of restraining from nonvirtue
- The ethics of altruism
- The far-reaching practice of generosity
- The faults of attachment
- The faults of self-centeredness
- The filth of the body
- The first bodhisattva ground
- The foulness of the body
- The four powers that increase joyous effort
- The joy of serving sentient beings
- The kind of person I want to be
- The kindness of enemies
- The kindness of others
- The meaning of compassion
- The merits of bodhicitta
- The perfection of ethical conduct & fortitude
- The practices of bodhisattvas—four types of generosity
- The practices of bodhisattvas—the six perfections
- The precepts of aspiring bodhicitta
- The precepts of aspiring bodhicitta
- The rarity of a precious human life
- The seed of enlightenment
- The skeleton in the body
- The source of disagreement
- The three levels of spiritual practitioner
- The three types of compassion
- The two truths
- Three types of compassion
- Three ways to see bodhicitta in terms of dependent arising
- Training the mind in giving
- Transforming anger
- Transforming hindrances and adversity
- Understanding anger
- Unhappiness fuels anger
- Verse 1: The citadel of liberation
- Verse 10-1: The fuel of the passions
- Verse 10-2: Counteracting the defilements
- Verse 10-3: Meditating on emptiness
- Verse 11: The fire of wisdom
- Verse 12: The nectar of wisdom
- Verse 13: The nourishment of samadhi
- Verse 14-1: The prison of cyclic existence
- Verse 14-2: What samsara is
- Verse 14-3: Three higher trainings
- Verse 15-1: Plunging into cyclic existence
- Verse 15-2: Three kinds of bodhisattvas
- Verse 15-3: Giving up everything for others
- Verse 15-4: Wisdom in benefitting others
- Verse 16: Opening the door of liberation
- Verse 17-1: Closing the door to the lower realms
- Verse 17-2: Taking care of ourselves
- Verse 17-3: Teaching the Dharma
- Verse 17-4: Gathering disciples
- Verse 17-5: Value of keeping precepts
- Verse 18: The exalted path
- Verse 19-1: The upper realms
- Verse 19-2: Precious human life
- Verse 19-3: Bodhisattva practices
- Verse 19-4: Antidote to depression
- Verse 2: The dimension of reality
- Verse 20-1: Going downhill
- Verse 20-2: The lower realms
- Verse 20-3: Creating the causes
- Verse 21-1: On meeting others
- Verse 21-2: Seeing the buddha in others
- Verse 21-3: Buddha nature
- Verse 21-4: Emptiness of mind
- Verse 22-1: Bodhicitta while walking
- Verse 22-2: Toward the welfare of all beings
- Verse 23-1: Lifting all beings from samsara
- Verse 23-2: Mahayana walking meditation
- Verse 24-1: Wearing ornaments
- Verse 24-2: Marks of a buddha
- Verse 25-1: Without ornaments
- Verse 25-2: Ascetic practices
- Verse 26-1: Filled with good qualities
- Verse 26-2: Filling containers
- Verse 26-3: Reducing jealousy and anger
- Verse 27: Empty containers
- Verse 28: Joy in the teachings
- Verse 29: Dissatisfaction with samsara
- Verse 3: The dreamlike nature of things
- Verse 30-1: Happiness
- Verse 30-2: The bliss of a buddha
- Verse 31: Seeing someone suffering
- Verse 32-1: Being free from illness
- Verse 32-2: Working with sickness
- Verse 32-3: Renouncing suffering
- Verse 32-4: Aging gracefully
- Verse 32-5: Who is sick?
- Verse 33-1: Repaying kindness
- Verse 33-2: The kindness of others
- Verse 33-3: Had we not met the Dharma….
- Verse 33-4: The kindness of the Three Jewels
- Verse 34-1: Unkind to wrong views
- Verse 34-2: Making offerings
- Verse 34-3: Delight in giving
- Verse 34-4: How we repay others’ kindness
- Verse 34-5: Afflicted views
- Verse 34-6: Three Jewels, rebirth, and karma
- Verse 34-7: What the mind is
- Verse 35-1: Seeing a dispute
- Verse 35-2: Conflict styles, part 1
- Verse 35-3: Conflict styles, part 2
- Verse 35-4: Conflict styles, part 3
- Verse 36-1: Praising others
- Verse 36-2: Other people’s qualities
- Verse 36-3: How to praise people
- Verse 36-4: Praising the buddhas and bodhisattvas
- Verse 37: Discussing the teachings
- Verse 38: Representations of the Buddha
- Verse 39: Monuments of enlightenment
- Verse 4: The sleep of ignorance
- Verse 40-1: Faith in the Three Jewels
- Verse 40-2: Three kinds of faith
- Verse 40-3: Ethical conduct
- Verse 40-4: Learning
- Verse 40-5: Generosity
- Verse 40-6: Integrity
- Verse 40-7: Consideration for others
- Verse 40-8: Discriminating wisdom
- Verse 41: Praising the Buddha
- Verse 5-1: Attaining the form buddha bodies
- Verse 5-2: Creating the causes
- Verse 6-1: Robes of integrity
- Verse 6-2: Consideration for others
- Verse 6-3: A clear conscience
- Verse 7: Secured by the root of virtue
- Verse 8: The seat of enlightenment
- Verse 9: The tree of enlightenment
- Verses 2-4: Review
- Verses review: The Buddhist view
- Vesak verse: Bodhicitta on Vesak day
- We are all equal
- Wealth is fraught with problems
- Wealth is suffering
- What is prayer?
- Where do the afflictions exist?
- Who’s responsible for our suffering
- Why bodhicitta is so powerful
- Why do I protect myself and not others?
- Why is bodhicitta so powerful?
- Wisdom and compassion
- Wishing bodhicitta
- Working with anger
- Working with anger, developing fortitude
- Working with difficult situations
- Working with jealousy
- Yogis and common people
Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions
Buddhist Reasoning and Debate
- A defender’s four answers
- A graded range of consciousnesses
- Agent, action, and object
- An introduction to Tibetan Buddhist debate
- Believing in something that is not real
- Buddhist ontology
- Challengers and defenders
- Choosing your debate partner
- Comparisons of consciousnesses
- Conceptual and nonconceptual minds
- Concluding review
- Consequences
- Correct signs practice and review
- Debate in action
- Debate practice continued
- Debate review
- Definitions
- Definitions, divisions, and consequences
- Direct perceivers
- Divisions and illustrations
- Divisions of the selfless
- Divisions of the selfless
- Doubt and correctly assuming consciousness
- Epistemological requirements
- Facsimiles of direct perceivers
- Forming a correct syllogism
- Forward pervasion
- Four kinds of direct perceivers
- Four possibilities
- Functioning things
- Hidden phenomena and manifest phenomena
- Impermanent and permanent phenomena
- Inattentive perceptions, doubt, and wrong consciousnesses
- Inferential cognizers and direct perceivers
- Internal matter
- Is what we think true?
- Let’s debate!
- Making flawless syllogisms
- Manjushri, the special deity of debate
- Meet people where they are
- Mental consciousness
- More debate practice
- Motivation to practice
- Mutually inclusive phenomena
- Nonassociated compositional factors
- Nonassociated compositional factors that are not persons
- Nonexistents
- Object ascertaining mental factors
- One and different
- One and different as subjects
- One and many as predicates
- Outline of the selfless
- Permanent phenomena and functioning things
- Practice syllogisms
- Practicing the comparison of phenomena
- Practicing the defender’s answers
- Practicing the Dharma
- Products and nonproduced phenomena
- Proving four possibilities and mutual exclusion
- Proving mutual inclusion
- Review night
- Review of abstract composites
- Review of chapters 11 and 12
- Review of consequences
- Review of definitions
- Review of Definitions
- Review of divisions of the selfless
- Review of external matter
- Review of four possibilities
- Review of functioning things
- Review of internal matter and consciousness
- Review of procedures in debate
- Review of sounds, odors and tastes
- Review of three possibilities
- Review: Chapters 7-8
- Seven kinds of awareness
- Sounds, odors and tangible objects
- Specifically and generally characterized phenomena
- Statements of pervasion
- Statements of pervasion review
- Statements of qualities
- Statements of qualities review
- Statements of qualities review II
- Statements of qualities, Part 2
- Strategies in debate
- Subsequent cognizers
- Syllogisms
- Syllogisms
- Syllogisms review
- The benefits of the study of Dudra
- The Buddhist enthymeme
- The Buddhist syllogism
- The challenger responds to the defender
- The clap!
- The comparison of phenomena
- The comparison of phenomena
- The defender’s answers
- The defender’s response
- The equivalents of existents
- The omnipresent mental factors
- The opening volleys
- The root affliction of anger
- The root affliction of attachment
- The three higher trainings
- The three purposes of debate
- Thought consciousnesses and direct perceivers
- Thought consciousnesses and direct perceivers
- Three kinds of sameness
- Three types of correct signs
- Tips for practice
- Ultimate and conventional truths
- Valid syllogisms
- Virtuous mental factors #2-6
- Virtuous mental factors #7-11
- Western philosophy and early Buddhist knowledge
- What is the mind?
- Why study debate?
Buddhist Tenet Systems
- Benefits of cultivating bodhicitta
- Benefits of studying emptiness
- Buddhism, science, and mind
- Buddhist tenet systems: origin and background
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 1
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 2
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 3
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 4
- Buddhist tenet systems: Sprititual disposition and Buddha nature
- Buddhist tenet systems: What is the person?
- Buddhist tenet systems: Zeroing in on the correct view
- Conventional and ultimate truths
- Discussion: Mind-only school
- Discussion: Perceptions and existence
- Emptiness and bodhicitta
- Emptiness and impermanence
- Emptiness in everyday life
- Five paths, buddhas, and arhats
- Four seals, obstacles, and enemies of bodhicitta
- Generating bodhicitta
- Goals and obscurations
- Hearers, solitary realizers, bodhisattvas
- Imputed and established natures
- Introduction to Buddhist tenets
- Introduction to the tenets
- Introduction to the two truths
- Karma, impermanence, and cognition
- Meditation on emptiness
- Mental states and objects of knowledge
- Mind basis of all
- Mind-only school
- Mind-only tenet school: Part 1
- Mind-only tenet school: Part 2
- Mind-only tenet school: Part 3
- Persons, perceptions, and mental factors
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 1
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 2
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 3
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 4
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 5
- Questions and answers: Existence and tenets
- Reality and appearances
- Sautrāntika and two truths
- Sautrāntika tenet school: Part 1
- Sautrāntika tenet school: Part 2
- Sautrāntika tenet school: Part 3
- Sautrantika views
- Scripture and reasoning
- Single and different
- Sutra school: Phenomena and cognition
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 1
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 2
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 3
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 4
- Tenet systems and the extremes
- The four seals
- The two truths and dependent arising
- The two truths and different tenets
- The two truths and karma
- The two truths and Tibetan philosophy
- The two truths in the Cittamatra system
- The two truths in the four schools
- The two truths: Conclusion
- The two truths: Conventional existence
- The two truths: Questions and answers
- The two truths: The Sautrantika view
- The two truths: The Svatantrika view
- Understanding the tenet systems
- Vaibashika, Sautrantika, and Mind-only
- Vaibhāṣika tenet school: Part 1
- Vaibhāṣika tenet school: Part 2
- Vaibhāṣika tenet school: Part 3
Buddhist Worldview
- Saying goodbye to our spiritual teachers
- “Five Faultless Gifts” and “Five Blessings”
- 100,000 Bows Toward Full Awakening
- 12 links of dependent arising
- A kind heart as our motivation
- Applying Buddhist logic in meditation
- Appreciating the opportunity to practice
- Areligious Buddhism: Is there such a thing?
- Attributes of true cessations: Cessation and peace
- Attributes of true cessations: Magnificent and Freedom
- Attributes of true dukkha: Dukkha
- Attributes of true dukkha: Empty
- Attributes of true dukkha: Impermanence
- Attributes of true dukkha: Selfless
- Attributes of true origins: Cause
- Attributes of true origins: Conditions
- Attributes of true origins: Origin
- Attributes of true origins: Strong producers
- Attributes of true paths: Accomplishment and irreversible
- Attributes of true paths: Path and suitable
- Being a wise practitioner
- Being kind to oneself
- Big love
- Big love
- Bringing the Dharma into the aging process
- Buddha’s advice for a better world
- Buddhism from a practitioner’s perspective
- Changing our minds and emotional habits
- Changing our wrong conceptions
- Chapter 1: Buddhism in China and Tibet
- Chapter 1: Early Buddhist history
- Chapter 1: Origin and spread of the Buddha’s doctrine
- Chapter 10: Progressing on the path
- Chapter 11: Immeasurable love
- Chapter 11: The four immeasurables
- Chapter 12: Bodhicitta
- Chapter 12: Bodhicitta in the Chinese tradition
- Chapter 12: Bodhicitta in the Pali tradition
- Chapter 12: Genuine self-confidence
- Chapter 12: How to generate bodhicitta
- Chapter 13: Fortitude through wisdom
- Chapter 13: More on the perfections
- Chapter 13: Perfections unique to the Pali tradition
- Chapter 13: The perfection of fortitude
- Chapter 13: The ten perfections in the Pali tradition
- Chapter 13: The ten perfections in the Sanskrit tradition
- Chapter 14-15: Buddha nature in Chan Buddhism
- Chapter 14: Buddha nature
- Chapter 14: Buddha nature in the Mind-Only school
- Chapter 14: Perspectives on buddha nature
- Chapter 15: Tantra and conclusion
- Chapter 2: Monastic stages of refuge
- Chapter 2: Qualities of refuge and The Three Jewels
- Chapter 2: Refuge in and proof of the existence of the Three Jewels
- Chapter 2: Refuge In the Pali tradition
- Chapter 2: The stages of buddhahood
- Chapter 2: The Tathagata’s ten powers and six unshared behaviors
- Chapter 3: Sanskrit view of the noble eightfold path
- Chapter 3: Stages of the noble eightfold path
- Chapter 3: The Pali view of the noble eightfold path
- Chapter 3: True suffering and its attributes
- Chapter 4: Ethical conduct and the monastic community
- Chapter 4: Higher trainings and precepts
- Chapter 5: Concentration: Sanskrit tradition
- Chapter 5: Concentration: Pali teachings
- Chapter 5: Concentration: Process, barriers, and signs along the way
- Chapter 5: Concentration: Sanskrit and Chinese traditions
- Chapter 5: Higher training in concentration
- Chapter 6-7: Review and overview
- Chapter 6: Mindfulness of the body and mind
- Chapter 6: The 37 aids to awakening
- Chapter 6: The four establishments of mindfulness
- Chapter 7: Emptiness and selflessness
- Chapter 7: Refuting the inherently existent self
- Chapter 7: The four extremes of arising
- Chapter 7: The object of negation
- Chapter 8: Dependent arising
- Chapter 8: Levels of dependence
- Chapter 8: Twelve links of dependent arising
- Chapter 9: The union of serenity and insight
- Chapters 1-10: Review
- Chapters 1-3: Review
- Chapters 11 & 12: Four immeasurables and bodhicitta
- Chapters 4-5: Review
- Commentary on the Heart Sutra
- Comparison of God and Buddha
- Confusion within tantra
- Contemplating causality
- Contemplating impermanence
- Contemplating the value of our precious human rebirth
- Creating our experience
- Creating the causes for a precious human life
- Cultivating faith in the Three Jewels
- Dependent arising in the Pali tradition
- Disentangling our identities
- Disintegratedness of actions and rebirth
- Dispositions, motivations, and practices
- Do I really want to change?
- Ego, A Tibetan Buddhist perspective
- Ethics and right livelihood
- Examining our obstacles
- Exploring karma
- Faith based on reason and conviction
- Finding happiness through wisdom
- Finding our spiritual guide
- Four noble truths: An overview
- Guidelines for the practice of refuge
- How Buddhism differs from psychology
- How rebirth works
- How to relate to a spiritual teacher
- How to rely on a spiritual teacher
- How to tell if a Buddhist teacher has the right qualities
- I, me, myself and mine
- Impermanence, dukkha and selflessness
- Inquiry and faith
- Integrating a good motivation into our practice and daily lives
- Karma and compassion: Part 1 of 2
- Karma and compassion: Part 2 of 2
- Karma and your life
- Karma and your life: Questions and answers, part 1
- Karma and your life: Questions and answers, part 2
- Karma and your life: Questions and answers, part 3
- Karma and your life: Taking refuge and precepts
- Karma and your life: The four characteristics of karma
- Karma and your life: The results of karma
- Letting go of the eight worldly concerns
- Life without sila is like a car without brakes
- Long refuge and precepts ceremony
- Looking for the heart
- Making room for the Dharma—the eight worldly concerns
- Many traditions, one teacher
- Mind and rebirth
- Mind, rebirth, and liberation
- Miscarriages and karma
- Monk chat: Questions about how to practice
- Mutual appreciation between traditions
- One Teacher Many Traditions with Institut Vajra Yogini
- Online teaching resources
- Our precious human life
- Overcoming obstacles to Dharma practice
- Overcoming the eight worldly concerns
- Pali tradition and noble path
- Practical guidelines for good living
- Practicing in harmony
- Practicing the Dharma, transforming the mind
- Practicing the four immeasurables
- Purifying for refuge practice
- Q&A with Clear Mountain Monastery
- Qualities of teacher and student
- Qualities of the student
- Realizing our potential
- Rebirth and impermanence
- Rebirth and karma
- Rebirth and karma
- Rebirth, karma and emptiness
- Rebirth, karma, and emptiness
- Rebirth: A difficult point for Westerners
- Rebirth: Is it really possible?
- Reflecting on death and impermanence
- Reformatting the hard disk of the mind
- Refuge
- Refuge and bodhicitta
- Refuge and precept discussion questions
- Refuge and precepts ceremony
- Refuge causes and objects
- Refuge groups
- Refuge: Meaning and commitments
- Rejuvenate your life
- Relating to a spiritual teacher
- Reliance on a spiritual teacher
- Relying on a spiritual guide
- Relying on a spiritual teacher
- Relying on the teacher
- Remembering the kindness of the guru with Ven. Chodron
- Remembering the kindness of the guru with Ven. Khadro
- Samsara or cyclic existence
- Saying goodbye to our spiritual teachers
- Seeing ourselves as we really are
- Seeking a qualified spiritual teacher to guide us
- Self-centered Attitude
- Setting your motivation
- Similarities among Buddhist traditions
- Sixteen attributes of the four noble truths
- Some questions on rebirth
- Spiritual growth in daily life
- Streams of merit
- Sutra in response to a query over what happens after death: a review
- Taking refuge
- Taking refuge and the five precepts
- Taking refuge and the meaning of the Three Jewels
- Taking refuge: From “Open Heart, Clear Mind”
- Ten Percent Happier interview: What’s your motivation?
- The benefits of change
- The benefits of having a teacher
- The broad framework of the path
- The Buddha’s life and teachings
- The Buddhist worldview
- The concept of refuge
- The disadvantages of the eight worldly concerns
- The eight worldly concerns
- The essence of a meaningful life
- The Fifth Precept: Diet for a Mindful Society
- The First Precept: Reverence for Life
- The five main topics studied in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries
- The Five Wonderful Precepts: Introduction
- The four attributes of true of dukkha
- The four attributes of true of origins of dukkha
- The four distortions: No ability to bring lasting happiness
- The four distortions: Seeing what is impermanent as permanent
- The four distortions: Subtle impermanence
- The four distortions: Who do you think you are?
- The four immeasurables in the Pali and Sanskrit traditions
- The four noble truths
- The four noble truths
- The four noble truths
- The four seals of Buddhism
- The four thoughts that turn the mind
- The Fourth Precept: Deep Listening and Loving Speech
- The healing power of the precepts
- The importance of reflecting on a precious human life
- The intention to lie
- The light of liberation: True satisfaction and fulfillment
- The noble eightfold path and the four-way test
- The power of a kind motivation
- The power of aspiration
- The Second Precept: Generosity
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Consideration for self and others
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Cultivating wisdom
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Ethical conduct
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Faith
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Generosity of protection and of the Dharma
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Learning
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Learning in Tibetan Monasteries
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Material generosity
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Personal integrity
- The ten innermost jewels of the Kadampas
- The Third Precept: Sexual Responsibility
- The three characteristics
- The three characteristics
- The three higher trainings
- The three higher trainings and the eight fold path
- The Three Jewels as ideals
- The truth of dukkha
- The value and purpose of a precious human life
- Third and fourth noble truths
- Three higher trainings
- Three kinds of peace
- Three thoughts to generate on waking up
- Understanding Buddhist traditions
- Understanding karma
- Understanding our situation
- Understanding refuge
- Understanding the mind
- Unlocking your potential
- Verse 94: Those with right livelihood
- What did I do to deserve this?
- What it means to see the guru as the Buddha
- When things fall apart it’s time to practice
- Why am I giving?
- Why do things happen?
- Why is the Vinaya important if things are empty?
- Why things happen the way they do
- Why we need a teacher
- Working for sentient beings
- Working with karma
By Incarcerated People
- “Impact of Crime on Victims” class
- A bird
- A chosen life
- A close call
- A family of mice
- A fight on the yard
- A final farewell
- A friend in prison
- A glimpse into the ultimate
- A long-awaited vacation
- A new place
- A path of understanding
- A quilt of compassion
- A simple act of kindness
- A suicide
- A test of my bodhisattva vows
- A thought …
- Adapting to changes
- Addiction
- Adjusting to change
- After release: A woman’s perspective
- All I daydream about is here right now
- An almost riot
- An appeal to Linda
- An eye-opener
- An orange of mindfulness
- Appreciating the Dharma
- Awareness that sets you free
- Beauty and the bugs
- Becoming humble
- Being emptiness
- Being present
- Beliefs turned on their head
- Better than a hell realm
- Big piece
- Bodhisattva vows
- Bringing Avalokiteshvara into the circle
- Buddha’s door
- Celebration of Buddha’s enlightenment
- Changing
- Changing our mind
- Choice
- Choice and changing
- Choices and consequences
- Choosing friends
- Circus
- Courage
- Creating an identity
- Creating problems
- Crossing to the other shore
- Cuddling up to the Dharma
- Cultivating altruistic intention
- Daishin, big mind
- Dealing with anger
- Dealing with difficult changes
- Dealing with the guards
- Dear Mom
- Deeply committed to freedom
- Depression and Buddha nature
- Deserving love
- Developing bodhicitta
- Discovery
- Doing retreat in prison
- Doing Vajrasattva retreat
- Don’t weep
- Eating blame
- Explore and be brave
- Facing fear and stress in prison
- Fear and hate
- Flow
- Forgiving and apologizing
- Friendship
- Gathas for daily life
- Generosity: The first paramita
- Getting along with others
- Getting back on track
- Gibberish
- Glad to be here
- Grape or no grape?
- Gratitude
- Gratitude for the Dharma
- Grouchy me
- Growing pains
- Growing through the Dharma
- Haiku
- Handling fear and potential violence
- Happy birthday, Mom
- Having compassion for yourself
- Healing past relationships
- Hermitage
- How spirituality changed my life
- Humor
- I am a Buddhist
- I would normally have been upset
- If here, why not out there?
- Ignorance of the ego
- Inside-out practice
- Inspirations for overcoming anger
- Inspiring story
- Intoxicants
- It could be worse
- Jewels of the Dharma
- Joshua
- Joys of taking the bodhisattva vows
- Just breathe
- Karma and change
- Keeping balance
- Kindness to myself
- Kitchen Dharma
- Kwan Yin
- Leading ourselves out of addiction
- Learning from others
- Learning to find inner peace
- Let the mind see the mind
- Letting go of attachments
- Letting go of guilt and shame
- Life in the hole
- Loneliness
- Love
- Love, compassion, peace
- Making mistakes
- Making the teachings personal
- Masks
- Meditation with noise
- Meeting Tara
- Mindfulness, contentment, and ABBA
- Moving from the heart
- Musings at a red light
- My prison education
- My tiger
- New perspective
- No more labels
- No more whining
- Noble silence
- Not feeding the fire
- Offering service
- On attachment
- Opening up to love
- Our circle of suffering
- Owl
- Owning up, but with hope
- Patience with the path
- Paying attention to life
- People serving time
- Personal demons
- Pink flamingos
- Poem to Mom and Dad
- Positive thinking
- Power to hope, power to heal
- Practice and our mind
- Practicing in prison
- Practicing in prison
- Practising and upholding the precepts
- Prison and prayer
- Prison labor
- Prison of desire
- Prison poetry I
- Prison poetry II
- Prison poetry III
- Prison poetry IV
- Prison, life, impermanence
- Purification
- Purifying negative karma
- Qualifications
- Reentry
- Reflection on life
- Reflections on “At Hell’s Gate”
- Reflections on anger
- Reflections on my good fortune
- Release from prison: Shock or growth?
- Remaining calm
- Reunion
- Riding the roller coaster
- Right effort, learning, and love
- Saved by the Dharma
- Scars and catharsis
- Searching for happiness
- Seeing Buddha nature
- Seeking peace
- Selflessness keeps you out of SHU
- Shame
- Sharing
- Sharing positive energy
- Showing up for yourself
- Sitting with difficulty
- Squeezing George Washington so tight he cries
- Sravasti Grove
- Stateville
- Sticking to my principles
- Street kids
- Stress
- Strong attachment to desire
- Suicide watch
- Supporting a loved one in prison
- Surviving in the system
- Taking the bodhisattva vows
- Talking to the person I used to be
- Tears of compassion
- Thanks for the Dharma Dispatch
- The allure of drugs
- The beauty of creating the causes
- The choices we make
- The coffee pot: A test of my tolerance
- The cure
- The day has finally arrived
- The de facto clause
- The deer
- The extinguishing of fires
- The garden notices the rocks moving
- The hills we climb
- The internal tiger: anger and fear
- The jerk and the potato chips
- The journey
- The liberation of self-forgiveness
- The lone Buddhist
- The middle way
- The most stable people in prison
- The mule
- The pajama room
- The path and the garden
- The peace and beauty of the night’s darkness
- The power of precepts
- The precept of nonviolence
- The prison way of life
- The reality of adversity
- The Ronco label maker
- The sangha in us all
- The secret to happiness
- The spark
- Them
- Think about it
- Thoughts
- Time, inspiration, and gratitude
- Transfer
- Transforming adversity into bodhicitta
- Transforming grief into gratitude and love
- Transforming the three times
- Trauma and recovery
- Treasure the present
- Truth
- Try again
- Turning my life around
- Unforgettable memories
- Upon life’s journey
- Valuable lesson learned
- Vanquishing depression and anxiety
- Views on reforming the prison system
- Watering seeds
- Wayward
- We are human beings
- What brings happiness
- What the Buddha taught
- Whisper
- Who understands me but me
- Who’s poisoning me?
- Wholesome or unwholesome seeds
- Why not me?
- Why should I fight?
- Why?
- Wisdom from Great Aunt Ga-ga
- Without a vodka bottle in my hand
- Working with People in Prison
- Worldly views
Chants from the Chinese Tradition
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2006
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2007
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2008
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2009
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2010
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2011
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2012
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2013
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2014
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2018
Chenrezig Winter Retreat 2006-07
Concentration
- Attachment and serenity
- Balance in body, speech, and mind
- Benefits of ethical conduct
- Calming the mind
- Concentration and the six perfections
- Concentration as a Buddhist practice
- Concentration in Buddhist practice
- Concentration meditation on the Buddha
- Concentration: Worldview, technique, result
- Conditions conducive for developing concentration
- Conditions for serenity retreat
- Criteria for developing serenity
- Cultivating serenity
- Cultivating serenity in daily life
- Desire and happiness
- Discourse on “The Removal of Distracting Thoughts”
- Doubt
- Getting unstuck from attachment and anger
- Guided meditation on the Buddha
- Hindrances and antidotes
- Hindrances to concentration
- Hindrances to serenity
- Interdependence and equanimity
- Introduction to breathing meditation
- Learning from death
- Lethargy, sleepiness, restlessness, remorse
- Making offerings
- Malice and lethargy
- Meditation and hindrances
- Mental factors and states of consciousness
- Mindfulness and introspective awareness
- Mindfulness and sensual desire
- Motivation and meditation
- Overcoming hindrances to concentration
- Overcoming ill will
- Practices before serenity meditation
- Qualities of concentration
- Restlessness, regret, and doubt
- Sensual desire and malice
- Six conditions for retreat
- Six conditions, five faults, eight antidotes
- Stages of sustained attention
- Structuring the meditation session
- The benefits of and conditions for developing serenity
- The context for developing concentration
- The five faults and eight antidotes
- The five faults and eight antidotes
- The hindrances: Desire and malice
- The hindrances: Doubt
- The hindrances: Dullness and restlessness
- The nine mental abidings
- The prerequisites for concentration
- The removal of distracting thoughts
- Ultimate goal of developing concentration
- Working with the five hindrances
Contentment and Happiness
Cultivating Compassion
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Foreword by the Dalai Lama
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Introduction
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Living with authenticity
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Preface by Professor Paul Gilbert
- “Living with an Open Heart” book launch
- “Living with an Open Heart”: An introduction
- “Living with an Open Heart”: The vastness of compassion
- A different kind of strength
- A Healthy Diet for the Mind
- A heart of compassion
- Accepting ourselves
- Advice on living with an open heart
- An open-hearted life: The meaning of compassion
- Apologizing and forgiving
- Becoming friends with ourselves
- Becoming friends with ourselves
- Becoming our own best friend
- Being responsible for our emotions
- Benefits of compassion
- Beyond Blame
- Bringing compassion into every moment
- Building courage and compassion
- Caring for ourselves and others
- Clarifying misconceptions about compassion
- Comparing the Buddhist and scientific views of emotions
- Compassion and empathy
- Compassion and empathy review
- Compassion and ethical living
- Compassion and interdependence
- Compassion and interdependence
- Compassion and personal distress
- Compassion as an antidote to depression
- Compassion as an antidote to low-self esteem
- Compassion as the antidote to the critical, judgmental mind
- Compassion for a happier mind for Turkey
- Compassion gone awry
- Compassion in action: a life of service
- Compassion manifesting in skillful means
- Compassion, empathy, and attachment
- Compassion, uncertainty, and listening to uncomfortable truths
- Compassion: What it is, what it isn’t
- Compassionate communication
- Compassionate thinking and mentalizing
- Compassionate understanding of emotions
- Composed compassion
- Confusion about compassion
- Connecting with compassion
- Connecting with others with an open heart
- Considering perceived threats and needs
- Cooperation and attachment styles
- Courageous compassion
- Courageous Compassion
- Courageous compassion
- Cultivating compassion and equanimity
- Cultivating compassion and letting go of anger
- Cultivating compassion for ourselves and others
- Cultivating happiness and contentment
- Cultivating love and kindness
- Cultivation of Compassion
- Curing our self-centeredness
- Dependent arising and compassion, continued
- Developing compassion
- Developing compassion
- Developing equanimity
- Discussion on compassion with Q&A
- Embracing common humanity
- Empathic distress
- Empathy and humor
- Equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Equanimity in daily life
- Establishing compassionate habits
- Examining our expectations of others
- Exchanging self and others and taking and giving
- Fear of compassion
- Finding the best in other people
- Friends who give bad advice
- Genuine compassion
- Giving positive feedback and praise
- Guided meditation on compassion
- Healing the mind
- Healing with love and compassion
- Helping each other feel safe
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama and compassion
- How compassion changes us
- How our emotions impact our mind
- Identifying our feelings
- Imagery and method acting: Cultivating our compassionate selves
- Introduction to the taking and giving meditation
- Kindness of mothers (all beings)
- Kuan Yin and compassion
- Leading an open-hearted life
- Learning, Living, and Teaching Bodhicitta
- Living an open-hearted life
- Love and compassion
- Loving kindness and compassion in daily life
- Meditating on equanimity
- Meditating on taking and giving
- Mindful awareness
- Misconceptions about compassion
- Moving toward compassion
- Obstacles to compassion
- Our capacity for kindness
- Overcoming the obstacles to developing compassion
- Reaching out with compassion
- Removing partiality
- Rules of the universe and the benefits of cherishing others
- Self-compassion
- Self-compassion
- Setting our motivation
- Slow things down and give them some space
- Small acts of compassion can have big results
- Spreading compassion
- Strength, joy, and compassion
- The disadvantages of self-centeredness
- The four immeasurables
- The happiness of an open-hearted life
- The importance of consistency
- The importance of empathic listening
- The importance of regular practice
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others
- The power of compassion in a chaotic world
- The power of compassion, part 1
- The power of compassion, part 2
- The power of compassion, part 3
- The power of compassion, part 4
- The power of optimism and types of emotion
- The seven-point instruction of cause and effect
- The way of compassion
- Three types of emotion and their influence
- Transforming the mind with compassion
- Twelve ways to apply compassion in society
- When compassion arises
- Why we need compassion
- Wisdom and compassion
- Working with Conflict and Making Requests
- Working with judgement and partiality
- Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2010
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2011
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2012
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2013
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2015
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2016
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2017
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2018
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2019
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2020
Cultivating Healthy Relationships
Cultivating the Four Immeasurables
Deity Meditation
- “Bodhisattvas’ Confession of Ethical Downfalls”
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 1-28 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 1-5
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 12-15
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 15-19
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 20-26
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 27-28
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 29-34
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 35-42
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 43-47
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 6-11
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 1-8 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 9-18 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verse 40 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 19-24 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 25-33 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 34-39 review
- 1000-armed Chenrezig deity sadhana with guided meditation
- 1000-armed Chenrezig meditation
- 108 Verses: A bucket in a well
- 108 Verses: Verse 47 and dependence on others
- 108 Verses: Verse 7
- 108 Verses: Verse 7
- 108 Verses: Verse 8
- 108 Verses: Verse 9
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-14
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-3
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-6
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-6
- 108 Verses: Verses 10-12
- 108 Verses: Verses 100-108
- 108 Verses: Verses 13-14
- 108 Verses: Verses 15-17
- 108 Verses: Verses 15-19
- 108 Verses: Verses 17-21
- 108 Verses: Verses 20-26
- 108 Verses: Verses 27-34
- 108 Verses: Verses 35-41
- 108 Verses: Verses 43-46
- 108 Verses: Verses 48-52
- 108 Verses: Verses 52-53
- 108 Verses: Verses 54-56
- 108 Verses: Verses 57-62
- 108 Verses: Verses 63-70
- 108 Verses: Verses 7-9
- 108 Verses: Verses 71-76
- 108 Verses: Verses 76-77
- 108 Verses: Verses 78-81
- 108 Verses: Verses 8-9
- 108 Verses: Verses 84-99
- 37 Practices: Verses 1-3
- 37 Practices: Verses 10-15
- 37 Practices: Verses 16-21
- 37 Practices: Verses 22-24
- 37 Practices: Verses 25-28
- 37 Practices: Verses 29-37
- 37 Practices: Verses 4-6
- 37 Practices: Verses 7-9
- A bodhisattva’s generosity
- A content and disciplined retreat mind
- A discussion about anger
- A lamentation requesting blessings from the Great Compassionate One
- A personal study of grief and some antidotes
- A reliable guide
- A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible
- A vast perspective
- A weekend with Tara
- Activities of wrath
- Afflicted views
- Afflictions and antidotes
- All about White Tara
- Alternative ways to deal with afflictions
- Amitabha Buddha deity sadhana with guided meditation
- Amitabha practice across traditions
- Amitabha practice: Aspiration prayer
- Amitabha practice: Aspirational prayer
- Amitabha practice: Chanting and visualization
- Amitabha practice: Dedication verses
- Amitabha practice: Fear at time of death
- Amitabha practice: Mantra recitation
- Amitabha practice: Mantra recitation and visualization
- Amitabha practice: Offering the mandala
- Amitabha practice: Practice while we are alive
- Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death
- Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death, part 1
- Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death, part 2
- Amitabha practice: Pure land rebirth
- Amitabha practice: Refuge and bodhicitta
- Amitabha practice: Refuge visualization
- Amitabha practice: Requesting inspiration
- Amitabha practice: The four immeasurables
- Answering questions from retreatants
- Apologies and forgiveness
- Applying antidotes to the afflictions
- Applying the teachings
- Appreciating the time for analysis
- Arya Tara: A star by which to navigate
- Assembly of the Immeasurable Life Tathāgata
- Attachment to ideas
- Attachment to personal identity
- Attachment to reputation
- Awareness of emptiness
- Bad moods and self-criticism
- Base of pure ethics
- Basic goodness
- Becoming Vajrasattva
- Beginning love with ourselves
- Being a friend to yourself
- Being dispassionate toward perception
- Being realistic and compassionate
- Believing what others believe about us
- Benefits of forgiveness
- Benefits of reciting verses
- Benefits of the retreat from afar
- Bodhicitta
- Bodhicitta as the result
- Bodhicitta motivation
- Bodhisattva practices
- Bowing and making offerings to Amitabha
- Branches of increasing merit
- Buddha nature
- Buddha nature and omniscient mind
- Buddhas and deities
- Buddhist and psychological views on grief
- Buddhist day of miracles
- Caring for our grief
- Caring mind towards everyone
- Causal dependence and karma
- Causes for pure land rebirth
- Chenrezig front-generation practice
- Chenrezig mantra and absorption
- Chenrezig retreat 2012 introduction
- Chenrezig retreat discussion: Part 1
- Chenrezig retreat discussion: Part 2
- Chenrezig sadhana
- Chenrezig sadhana glance meditation
- Clairvoyant powers
- Clarifying the practice
- Climate grief and resilience
- Collective karma and negativities to confess
- Coming out of our shell
- Commentary on a request to Tara
- Communicating with a Dharma friend who has dementia
- Compassion from Tara
- Compassion observing phenomena
- Compassion observing sentient beings
- Compassion observing the unapprehendable
- Compassion seeing emptiness
- Conditioned fear
- Confessing ethical downfalls
- Confession of negativities
- Confidence in purification
- Connecting with Amitabha Buddha
- Connecting with compassion
- Contemplating causality
- Contemplating the Medicine Buddha vows
- Conventional and ultimate existence
- Conventional and ultimate truth
- Create karma, accumulate merit, apply antidote
- Creating identities
- Creating the causes for rebirth in Amitabha’s pure land
- Cultivating a bodhicitta motivation
- Cultivating Amitabha’s attitude
- Cultivating bodhicitta
- Cultivating contentment
- Cultivating love on Valentine’s Day
- Cultivating respect for karma
- Cultivating satisfaction
- Cultivating wisdom
- Cutting through the mundane mind
- Dealing with afflictions and illness
- Dealing with difficult people
- Dealing with spirits and sickness
- Dealing with the craving for excitement
- Debrief after retreat
- Dedicating for awakening
- Dedication and karma
- Dedication and rejoicing
- Dedication and self-acceptance
- Dedication as generosity
- Deity practice
- Deity yoga: You are Tara
- Deluded thinking and labeling
- Denial of death
- Dependent arising in the sadhana
- Dependent arising: Causal dependence
- Dependent arising: Dependence on parts
- Dependent arising: Dependent designation
- Designating labels: Rinpoches and lamas
- Determining to benefit others
- Developing a relationship with Vajrasattva
- Developing an attraction to Chenrezig
- Developing equanimity
- Developing love and compassion
- Developing self-acceptance
- Developing the seven wisdoms of Manjushri
- Dharma advice
- Dharma and ordinary world view
- Dharma protector practices
- Discriminating wisdom
- Discussion on kindness of others
- Dismantling personal identity
- Dismantling preconceptions
- Distractions, the mind, and compassion
- Distrust of false appearances
- Doubt
- Dropping our garbage
- Dullness and drowsiness
- Eight verses of thought transformation
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 1-3
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 4-5
- Embodying the qualities of Tara
- Emotions, refuge, and emptiness
- Emptiness
- Emptiness and conceptual designation
- Emptiness and non-duality
- Emptiness and worldly appearances
- Emptiness as the nature of phenomena
- Emptiness feels so solid
- Emptiness, karma, and the stages of grief
- End of retreat Q&A
- Enlightened speech
- Ensuring our connection with the teachings and teacher
- Entering Manjushri retreat
- Equalizing self and others
- Equanimity and Chenrezig
- Equanimity and loving kindness
- Essence of Refined Gold
- Ethical behavior and happiness
- Ethical conduct in the workplace
- Exchanging self and others
- Excitement and laxity; not applying and over-applying the antidote
- Explanation of the Manjushri sadhana
- Explanation of the Medicine Buddha practice
- Explanation of the Vajrasattva sadhana
- Facing fears
- Fear and wisdom fear
- Fearlessness and refuge
- Feeling bad helps our practice
- Feelings and the yo-yo mind
- Finding inspiration in the qualities of Medicine Buddha
- Finding refuge in Vajrasattva
- Food offering: Labeling on a valid basis
- Forgetting the object of meditation
- Fortitude and joyous effort
- Foundation for bodhicitta
- Four immeasurables and seven-limb prayer
- Four keys to wellbeing
- Four types of nirvana
- Freedom through imagination
- Generating bodhicitta
- Generating regret
- Giving up clinging to this life
- Giving up our poor-quality view
- Giving up self-centeredness
- Grasping at inherent existence
- Gratitude to retreatants from afar
- Gratitude towards parents
- Great compassion and nondual awareness
- Green Tara sadhana (short)
- Green Tara sadhana with the Eight Dangers
- Guided meditation on cyclic existence
- Guided meditation on Tara
- Guided meditation on the Medicine Buddha
- Guided meditation on Vajrasattva
- Guided meditation on Verse 7
- Guilt, shame, and forgiveness
- Happiness and pleasures
- Happiness of others around us
- Healing anger with Tara
- Hearing, thinking, meditating
- Holding a retreat mind
- Homage to Manjushri
- Homage to Manjushri, the Buddha of wisdom
- Homage to the 21 Taras
- How anger functions
- How are we different from turkeys?
- How arrogance plays out in our lives
- How do I know that I have purified?
- How do living beings exist?
- How karma works
- How purification works
- How renunciation brings happiness
- How samsara evolves
- How Tantra fits into the path
- How things exist
- How to approach retreat
- How to deal with afflictions
- How to free your mind: The Tara sadhana and counteracting the eight dangers
- How to keep meditation interesting
- How to make the most of Retreat from Afar
- How to practice between sessions
- How to practice well
- How to recite mantra
- How to relate to the deity
- How to see Tara
- How to study, reflect, and meditate
- How we create negative karma
- Ignorance, anger, purification
- Ill will
- Immeasurable compassion
- Immeasurable equanimity
- Immeasurable joy and equanimity
- Immeasurable love
- Importance of the Buddhist worldview
- Inability to settle on a path
- Independent and dependent existence
- Inherent views and opinions
- Initial experiences of retreatants
- Initiations and empowerments
- Inspiration and long life from Tara
- Introducing the text and author
- Introduction and Chenrezig sadhana
- Introduction to 2011 Chenrezig retreat
- Introduction to Chenrezig
- Introduction to Chenrezig practice
- Introduction to Chenrezig practice
- Introduction to Chenrezig Practice
- Introduction to Chenrezig practice
- Introduction to Manjushri practice
- Introduction to Medicine Buddha practice
- Introduction to Nyung Ne
- Introduction to tantra
- Introduction to the Amitabha practice
- Introduction to the practice
- Introduction to Vajrasattva retreat
- Introduction to vajrayana
- Investigating blame
- Investigating happiness
- Jealousy: Its definition and antidotes
- Just go free-form
- Karma with holy beings and teachers
- Karma with teachers and parents
- Karma, formative action, and volitional factors
- Keep on going
- Keeping calm when facing harm
- Labeling thoughts and emotions
- Lama Tsongkhapa’s kindness
- Lamrim meditation and the sadhana
- Lamrim meditation in Tara sadhana
- Laziness and its antidotes
- Learning to let go during purification
- Letting go of identities
- Letting go of self
- Life after retreat
- Life force and the four elements
- Life support or not?
- Light and nectar flowing from Tara
- Living within the five precepts
- Lojong antidotes to grief
- Long Green Tara sadhana with guided meditation
- Looking for the “I”
- Loosening our identities
- Love, compassion, and bodhicitta
- Making decisions
- Making friends with ourselves
- Making friends with ourselves
- Making grief meaningful
- Making life meaningful
- Manjushri and the three vehicles
- Manjushri deity sadhana with guided meditation
- Manjushri meditation on emptiness
- Manjushri sadhana overview
- Mantras and symbols
- Medicine Buddha and the 35 Buddhas
- Medicine Buddha deity sadhana with guided meditation
- Medicine Buddha guided sadhana
- Medicine Buddha healing visualizations
- Medicine Buddha practice for the deceased
- Medicine Buddha practice: Mandala offering and request prayers
- Medicine Buddha practice: The seven limb prayer
- Medicine Buddha retreat: Questions and answers
- Medicine Buddha sadhana explained
- Medicine Buddha vow 4
- Medicine Buddha vow 8
- Medicine Buddha vows 1-3
- Medicine Buddha vows 5-7
- Medicine Buddha vows 9-12
- Medicine Buddha’s unshakeable resolves
- Medicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves 1-6
- Medicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves 7-12
- Meditating on compassion
- Meditating on impermanence
- Meditating on three types of compassion
- Meditation auf Buddha Amitabha
- Meditation on Arya Tara
- Meditation on emptiness
- Meditation on the Buddha
- Meditation on the Buddha in Spanish
- Meditation on the clear appearance of Manjushri
- Meeting Manjushri
- Meeting Vajrasattva
- Methods to cultivate compassion
- Methods to develop kindness
- Mid-retreat discussion
- Miserliness, attachment and doubt
- More psychology of the Tara sadhana
- More thoughts on ethical conduct in the workplace
- Motivation and karma
- Motivation and our dignity
- Motivation for Chenrezig retreat
- Motivation for the Manjushri retreat
- Motivation for the retreat
- Motivation for the retreat
- Mutual dependence
- Mutual dependence in generosity
- Negating inherent existence
- Objects of refuge
- Obstacles to generosity
- Offering the universe
- Oh Tara, protect us
- On vacation with Vajrasattva
- Once you start, never stop
- Our motivation for practice
- Our real enemy
- Our two-year-old mind
- Overcoming self-centeredness
- Overcoming three kinds of doubt
- Overview of the Amitabha Buddha sadhana
- Overview of the Buddhist path
- Pacifying the demon of doubt
- Panic fear, wisdom fear, and the adrenaline rush
- Parting from the four clingings
- Path of purification: Daily practice
- Path of purification: Vajrasattva practice
- Peeling away the view of permanence
- Physical prison versus samsaric prison
- Power of regret: Identifying the causes
- Power of regret: Understanding karma
- Power of remedial action: Methods
- Power of remedial action: The antidote
- Power of resolve: Abandoning non-virtue
- Power of resolve: Becoming Vajrasattva
- Power of resolve: Rooted in regret
- Practicing fortitude in daily life
- Practicing in a group retreat
- Practicing the Dharma
- Praise and criticism
- Praising bodhicitta
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 1-5
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 14-21
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 22-31
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 5-8
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 9-13
- Prayer to be Reborn in the Land of Bliss
- Precepts and distorted views
- Preciousness of the opportunity for retreat
- Preparing for tantra
- Preparing for Vajrasattva retreat
- Preparing the mind for practice
- Protected and Remembered by All Buddhas: The Buddha Speaks of Amitābha Sūtra
- Psychology of the Tara sadhana
- Purification and emptiness
- Purification and merit
- Purification and non-negotiables
- Purification and visualization
- Purification, karma, and ethical conduct
- Purifying harsh speech and idle talk
- Purifying heavy karma
- Purifying lying and divisive speech
- Purifying non-virtue: Coveting
- Purifying non-virtue: Karmic results
- Purifying non-virtue: Killing and stealing
- Purifying non-virtue: Malice
- Purifying non-virtue: Wrong views
- Purifying non-virtues of mind
- Purifying through Vajrasattva
- Purpose of practice
- Purpose of request to Chenrezig
- Purpose of the visualization
- Purpose of thought training
- Qualities of the three jewels
- Questioning our perceptions
- Questions about initiation and meditation
- Questions on Vajrasattva purification
- Reasonable self-evaluation
- Receiving an initiation
- Receiving praise: The bodhisattva vows
- Reducing arrogance, cultivating humility
- Reflecting on dukkha to fuel renunciation
- Refuge and the five lay precepts
- Refuge, bodhicitta, the four noble truths
- Rejoicing and dedicating
- Rejoicing at conclusion of retreat
- Rejoicing in retreat
- Rejoicing in the happiness of others
- Rejoicing in the Tara retreat
- Relating to and visualizing compassion
- Relating to the Buddha of wisdom
- Remembering to take the medicine
- Renouncing dukkha
- Resistance to meditation on emptiness
- Responding to pleasant feelings
- Restlessness and regret
- Results of anger
- Retreat discussion
- Retreat motivation
- Retreat questions and advice
- Retreat questions and discussion
- Reviewing behavior patterns
- Right intention in starting retreat
- Sadhana visualization
- Seasons change
- Seeing through fears
- Self-centeredness and compassion
- Self-generation and emptiness
- Selflessness of mind and phenomena
- Sensual desires
- Seven-limb prayer and mandala offering
- Shantideva on equalizing self and others
- Sharing challenges of practice
- Speaking about silence
- Special attributes of the Three Jewels
- Spiritual washing machine
- Staving off the flood
- Stories about Lama Yeshe
- Stressed out
- Subtle mind and wind in tantra
- Symbolism and visualization
- Taking refuge
- Taking refuge from the heart
- Taking retreat into daily life
- Taking the practice home
- Tantra initiations, empowerment
- Tantra practices
- Tantric initiation question
- Tara as resultant refuge
- Tara is not inherently existent
- Tara’s qualities
- Tara’s wisdom
- Teachings on the Chenrezig practice
- The 100-syllable mantra
- The antidotes to fear
- The benefits of cherishing others
- The benefits of refuge and precepts
- The Buddha is free from fear
- The Buddha Refuge Jewel
- The Buddha’s five recollections
- The carnivorous demon of doubt
- The chain of miserliness
- The Chenrezig practice
- The conventional existence of Tara
- The courage to be happy
- The dangers of absolutism and nihilism
- The dukkha of pain and change
- The dukkha of pervasive conditioning
- The eight dangers
- The elephant of ignorance
- The emptiness of identities and nonvirtue
- The empty nature of grief
- The far-reaching attitude of equanimity
- The fire of anger
- The Five Dhyani Buddhas
- The flood of attachment
- The food offering
- The four immeasurables
- The four immeasurables in daily life
- The four maras
- The four opponent powers
- The four opponent powers
- The four opponent powers for purification
- The four opponent powers in daily life
- The four opponent powers: Part 1
- The four opponent powers: Part 2
- The four purities and four classes of tantra
- The general characteristics of karma
- The Green Tara practice
- The lion of pride
- The mantra and purifying karma
- The mark of a successful life
- The meaning of compassion
- The meaning of karma
- The meaning of the Tara mantras
- The Medicine Buddha request prayers
- The Medicine Buddha sadhana
- The Medicine Buddha’s unshakeable resolves, continued
- The mind and body in meditation
- The motivation for doing retreat
- The perfection of wisdom
- The pitfalls of perfectionism
- The power of determination
- The power of determination
- The power of Nyung Ne with questions and answers
- The power of regret
- The power of regret: Our motivations
- The power of rejoicing
- The power of reliance
- The power of reliance: Bodhicitta
- The power of reliance: Refuge
- The power of remedial action
- The power of restoring the relationship
- The practice of confession
- The psychological mechanism of making request prayers
- The purpose of a silent retreat
- The purpose of dedicating merit
- The purpose of the Manjushri practice
- The rarity of retreat
- The robbers of wrong views
- The root causes of grief
- The selflessness of feelings
- The selflessness of persons
- The seven-limb prayer
- The snake of jealousy
- The story of Kwan Yin
- The symbolism of Medicine Buddha
- The Tara practice
- The ten non-virtuous actions
- The ten nonvirtues
- The thieves of wrong views
- The thieves of wrong views
- The two truths
- The wisdom of composition
- Things exist dependently
- Thinking about emptiness
- Three kinds of compassion
- Three kinds of dukkha and causes
- Three types of dukkha
- Tobacco, firearms and food
- Transforming unpleasant feelings
- Transition to daily life following retreat
- Types of arrogance and ignorance
- Understanding Buddhist concepts
- Unique elements of Vajrayana
- Unique features of tantra
- Unique features to tantra
- Unloading the garbage mind
- Unrealistic fear
- Untainted meditation
- Untimely death
- Using wisdom to guide our lives
- Vajrasattva guided meditation
- Vajrasattva meditation and recitation
- Vajrasattva practice and the four opponent powers
- Vajrasattva practice: Overview and the power of reliance
- Vajrasattva practice: The power of regret
- Vajrasattva practice: The powers of remedial action and determination
- Vajrasattva purification practice
- Vajrasattva reflections
- Vajrasattva sadhana
- Vajrayana foundation
- Varieties of attachment
- Verses of thought training
- Visualization
- Visualization and mantra recitation
- Visualization and mantra recitation
- Visualization in deity practice
- Visualization, refuge and bodhicitta
- Visualizing the Medicine Buddha
- Visualizing the object of meditation
- Visualizing Vajrasattva
- Watching the news as Dharma practice
- What are your non-negotiables?
- What emptiness is
- What is dhih?
- What is retreat?
- What is retreat?
- What is retreat?
- What is samsara and nirvana?
- What it means to do retreat
- What it means to take refuge
- What to do after retreat
- What we are giving up
- Where is attachment?
- Where is the self?
- White Tara at your heart
- White Tara deity sadhana with guided meditation
- White Tara purifying negativities
- Who Is Amitabha really?
- Who is Amitabha?
- Who is Tara?
- Who is Tara?
- Who is the “I” that is anxious?
- Who is White Tara?
- Why Buddha is a reliable refuge
- Why do we suffer?
- Wisdom, renunciation, and attachment
- Working on our attachments
- Working through cause and effect
- Working with sexual energy
- Working with the angry mind
- Working with the mind in retreat
- Working with the Tara sadhana
Dharma in Action
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Foreword by the Dalai Lama
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Introduction
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Living with authenticity
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Preface by Professor Paul Gilbert
- “Harmonia Mundi” and “Mind-Life” conferences
- “Impact of Crime on Victims” class
- “Living with an Open Heart” book launch
- “Living with an Open Heart”: An introduction
- “Living with an Open Heart”: The vastness of compassion
- “Nuns in the West I:” Interviews
- “Samsara, Nirvana and Buddha Nature”: Anger and its antidotes
- “She Carries Me” : A song for difficult times
- 12 ways to apply compassion
- 21st-century Buddhists
- A balanced mind in an election year
- A Benedictine’s view
- A bhikshuni’s view
- A bird
- A bodhisattva’s determination
- A Buddhist approach to helping the dying
- A Buddhist marriage blessing
- A Buddhist response to religious fundamentalism
- A call for empathy
- A call for unity
- A celebration of love
- A chosen life
- A Christmas gift in prison
- A close call
- A commentary on “The Rose”
- A death row attorney on her work
- A different kind of strength
- A family of mice
- A fight on the yard
- A final farewell
- A friend in prison
- A gift: an incarcerated person lets go of anger
- A glimpse into the ultimate
- A Healthy Diet for the Mind
- A heart of compassion
- A letter from a friend
- A letter from a listener
- A letter to my teacher
- A long obedience
- A long-awaited vacation
- A man and a squirrel
- A matter of life and death
- A meaningful life
- A meditation for survivors of suicide
- A new friendship
- A new place
- A new way to see it
- A path of understanding
- A peaceful heart in a complex world
- A prayer for my mother
- A prayer for refuge to a light within
- A prayer for the world
- A prison visit
- A prison visit following the killing of an incarcerated person
- A prison visit on “Buddha Day”
- A quilt of compassion
- A real awareness of death
- A remarkable story
- A second chance for juvenile offenders
- A secret Zen master
- A simple act of kindness
- A suicide
- A tale of woe becomes a tale of kindness and refuge
- A teaching on impermanence
- A test of my bodhisattva vows
- A thought …
- A trap to be aware of
- A treasured possession
- A tribute to Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- A vacation with anger
- A wake-up call
- A warm heart in a complex world
- A-Bombs, terrorism, and karma
- Accepting ourselves
- Activism with altruism
- Adapting to changes
- Addiction
- Addressing negative emotions
- Adjusting to change
- Advice for a child with a chronic illness
- Advice for a non-Buddhist friend
- Advice for upcoming surgery
- Advice on living with an open heart
- After release: A woman’s perspective
- Aging gracefully and with gratitude
- All I daydream about is here right now
- American professor teaches physics to Tibetan nuns
- An afternoon in prison
- An almost riot
- An appeal to Linda
- An eye-opener
- An incentive to engage in virtue
- An open-hearted life: The meaning of compassion
- An optimistic mind
- An orange of mindfulness
- Analyzing the terrorist
- Anger
- Anger and the practice of patience
- Anger not nice
- Anger poisons our happiness
- Anger versus clarity
- Another take on the fifth precept
- Antidotes for the complaining mind
- Antidotes to anger
- Antidotes to anxiety
- Antidotes to the fear of separation
- Apologizing and forgiving
- Appreciating the Dharma
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Seattle
- Are Buddhists ambitious?
- Assessing our speech and motivation
- Attachment and its effects
- Attaining and balancing wealth
- Awareness that sets you free
- Baby blessing ceremony
- Be reasonable
- Be there for the right reasons
- Be your own therapist
- Beauty and the bugs
- Becoming friends with ourselves
- Becoming friends with ourselves
- Becoming humble
- Becoming our own best friend
- Being a Dharma community
- Being a friend to yourself
- Being an example of compassion
- Being an example of love
- Being an example of peace
- Being an example of wisdom
- Being emptiness
- Being human: Not seeing the world as us and them
- Being present
- Being responsible for our emotions
- Being Tashi, facing the death of a child
- Beliefs turned on their head
- Benefits of compassion
- Benefitting animals with wisdom and compassion
- Better than a hell realm
- Beyond Blame
- Big piece
- Bodhisattva practice in daily life
- Bodhisattva versus white supremacist
- Bodhisattva vows
- Bonds
- Brain training: The effects of meditation on the brain
- Bringing Avalokiteshvara into the circle
- Bringing compassion into every moment
- Bringing compassion to prison
- Bringing harmony to the workplace
- Bringing the Dharma to the Middle East
- Buddha’s door
- Buddhism and consumerism
- Buddhism and Judaism
- Buddhism and therapy
- Buddhism in modern society
- Buddhism, modernism and mindfulness
- Buddhist Advice for Ruling a Kingdom
- Buddhist ethics in the age of technology
- Buddhist perspectives on death
- Buddhist perspectives on death
- Buddhist practice and community life
- Buddhist precepts regarding food
- Buddhist religious practitioners should serve as society’s conscience
- Buddhist wisdom on violence and reconciliation
- Buddhists in conflict
- Building confidence and resilience with joy
- Building confidence to live your life to the fullest
- Building courage and compassion
- Building your inner confidence
- Can a gun really protect you?
- Caring for our only home
- Caring for ourselves and others
- Caught up in consumerism
- Causes of happiness
- Celebrating the Buddha in prison
- Celebration of Buddha’s enlightenment
- Challenges to forgiveness
- Changing
- Changing how we view ourselves and others
- Changing our mind
- Changing perspective to undermine anger
- Chanting practices for the dying
- Chocolate frosting and garbage
- Choice
- Choice and changing
- Choices and consequences
- Choosing friends
- Christ the divine physician sadhana
- Circus
- Clarifying misconceptions about compassion
- Clarity, confidence and courage
- Clean up my act
- Clear wishes for our final moments
- Combating anxiety with a meditative mind
- Comfort for the grieving
- Communication and understanding conflict styles
- Comparing and contrasting views
- Comparing the Buddhist and scientific views of emotions
- Compassion + Technology
- Compassion after September 11
- Compassion and empathy
- Compassion and empathy review
- Compassion and ethical living
- Compassion and ethics in the public discourse
- Compassion and interdependence
- Compassion and interdependence
- Compassion and kindness in the face of terrorism
- Compassion and personal distress
- Compassion and social action
- Compassion and social engagement
- Compassion and world peace
- Compassion as an antidote to depression
- Compassion as an antidote to low-self esteem
- Compassion as the antidote to the critical, judgmental mind
- Compassion at a juvenile reformatory
- Compassion for a happier mind for Turkey
- Compassion for oneself, compassion for others
- Compassion for perpetrators
- Compassion gone awry
- Compassion in action
- Compassion in action: a life of service
- Compassion in the midst of chaos
- Compassion manifesting in skillful means
- Compassion through the dying process
- Compassion, empathy, and attachment
- Compassion, uncertainty, and listening to uncomfortable truths
- Compassion: What it is, what it isn’t
- Compassionate communication
- Compassionate thinking and mentalizing
- Compassionate understanding of emotions
- Competition vs. contentment: Dialogue with Buddhist youths
- Composed compassion
- Conceptual Minds and Mind Training
- Conflict and compassion: Opening our hearts when our views differ
- Confusion about compassion
- Connecting with compassion
- Connecting with compassion
- Connecting with incarcerated women in Indonesia
- Connecting with others with an open heart
- Connecting with those we disagree with
- Connecting women scientists and Buddhist nuns
- Considering perceived threats and needs
- Consumerism and happiness
- Consumerism and the environment
- Contemplating death
- Contestable times
- Conventional and ultimate recovery
- Cooperation and attachment styles
- Coronavirus: This is the time to practice
- Counteracting anger with compassion
- Courage
- Courageous compassion
- Courageous Compassion
- Courageous compassion
- Craving for pleasures
- Creating an identity
- Creating habits for happiness
- Creating peace in one’s daily life
- Creating problems
- Creating vision as a leader: a Buddhist perspective
- Criteria of trust
- Crossing to the other shore
- Cuddling up to the Dharma
- Cultivating altruistic intention
- Cultivating better relationships
- Cultivating compassion and equanimity
- Cultivating compassion and letting go of anger
- Cultivating compassion for ourselves and others
- Cultivating compassion in a violent world
- Cultivating connection, compassion, and confidence in goodness while healing after suicide
- Cultivating contentment
- Cultivating emotional balance
- Cultivating emotional balance
- Cultivating equanimity
- Cultivating equanimity
- Cultivating equanimity in a time of violence
- Cultivating happiness and contentment
- Cultivating love
- Cultivating love and compassion
- Cultivating love and kindness
- Cultivating loving-kindness
- Cultivating peace from the inside out
- Cultivating social harmony
- Cultivation of Compassion
- Curing our self-centeredness
- Cycles of optimism
- Cynicism, fear of change, responsibility
- Daily practices for time of death
- Daishin, big mind
- Dealing with anger
- Dealing with anger using mind training
- Dealing with anxiety
- Dealing with criticism
- Dealing with depression
- Dealing with difficult changes
- Dealing with disappointment
- Dealing with grief
- Dealing with grief
- Dealing with grief and loss
- Dealing with racism
- Dealing with situations when things fall apart
- Dealing with the guards
- Dealing with violent acts
- Dear Mom
- Death and peace of mind
- Death meditation
- Death under the bodhi tree
- Dedicating for the benefit of all
- Dedication for a meaningful life
- Dedication verses
- Deeply committed to freedom
- Defining love and happiness
- Defusing our hot buttons
- Dependent arising and compassion, continued
- Dependent arising: a universal principle
- Depression and Buddha nature
- Deserving love
- Determined to be free
- Developing bodhicitta
- Developing compassion
- Developing compassion
- Developing equanimity
- Developing inner peace through focus
- Developing inner peace through generosity and ethical living
- Developing inner peace through mindfulness
- Developing inner peace through transforming perspectives
- Developing our inner moral compass
- Dharma artwork by incarcerated people
- Dharma in prison: Learning more than teaching
- Dharma masala
- Dharma question and answer session
- Dialoguing with someone who sees things differently than I do
- Disadvantages of criticizing bodhisattvas
- Disappointment and delight—the eight worldly concerns
- Disarming the mind
- Disconnect to connect
- Discontent and contentment
- Discovering anger within
- Discovery
- Discussion on compassion with Q&A
- Discussion on lying with Q&A
- Disturbing emotions and the mind
- Does ethics matter in science and technology?
- Doing retreat in prison
- Doing Vajrasattva retreat
- Don’t be afraid of death
- Don’t take life for granted
- Don’t weep
- Don’t trust me to fly a plane!
- Done with the detour
- Doubting one’s capabilities
- Dying without fear and regret
- Earth and Water
- Eating blame
- Eating mindfully
- Eating with gratitude
- Embracing common humanity
- Empathic distress
- Empathy and humor
- Encouraging ethical behavior
- End-of-life care
- Equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Equanimity in daily life
- Establishing compassionate habits
- Ethical conduct and motivation
- Ethical conduct in modern times
- Ethical principles cannot be compromised
- Ethical ways to meet our needs
- Ethics and conditioning
- Ethics in daily life
- Examining anger and its antidotes
- Examining our expectations of others
- Exchanging self and others and taking and giving
- Explore and be brave
- Exploring world religions and Buddhism
- Facing fear and stress in prison
- Facing fear of death
- Faith leaders united against gun violence
- Faith-based applications to gun violence prevention
- Falling in love with everyone
- False friends
- Fear about the world
- Fear about the world
- Fear and apathy in response to mass shootings
- Fear and hate
- Fear of being disliked
- Fear of compassion
- Fear of dying
- Fear of losing our identity
- Fear of losing things
- Fear of making decisions
- Fear of separation from loved ones
- Fear of the future
- Fear regarding health
- Fear regarding the economy
- Fighting miserliness
- Figure-ground
- Fill yourself with good qualities
- Finally freeing myself from being a prisoner of love
- Finding hope after a loved one’s suicide
- Finding hope after the Orlando massacre
- Finding the best in other people
- Finding true happiness
- Fire and ice
- Five forces at time of death
- Five remembrances
- Flow
- Forebearance
- Forgiving after a betrayal
- Forgiving and apologizing
- Forgiving ourselves and others
- Friend, enemy and stranger
- Friendliness
- Friends who give bad advice
- Friendship
- From enemy to brother
- From TikTok to Dharma talk
- Fundamentals of being a Dharma guide
- Gasp! I was the angry person you were talking about!
- Gathas for daily life
- Generosity
- Generosity: The first paramita
- Genuine aspiration and resistance
- Genuine compassion
- Genuine self-confidence
- Getting a handle on anger
- Getting along with others
- Getting back on track
- Getting back on track
- Getting rid of my buttons
- Gibberish
- Giving positive feedback and praise
- Giving up the blame game
- Glad to be here
- Going beyond self-centeredness
- Good practices: Ancient and emerging
- Grape or no grape?
- Gratitude
- Gratitude for the Dharma
- Grieving the Sandy Hook tragedy
- Grouchy me
- Growing pains
- Growing through the Dharma
- Guided meditation on compassion
- Guiding one’s child
- Habitual behaviors and karma
- Haiku
- Handling fear and potential violence
- Happiness within ourselves
- Happy birthday, Mom
- Harmonizing criminal defendants’ imbalanced situations
- Harmony after Brexit
- Hate is not conquered by hate
- Having compassion for yourself
- Healing after suicide
- Healing anger in times of conflict
- Healing broken trust
- Healing from a war
- Healing from the heart
- Healing past relationships
- Healing prejudice
- Healing the body, mind, and world
- Healing the mind
- Healing with love and compassion
- Heart advice for practitioners
- Heartfelt gifts
- Helping a dying friend
- Helping angry people
- Helping each other feel safe
- Helping the dying
- Hermitage
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama and compassion
- Hit head-on? Pray!
- Hold me close
- Holding a space for compassion
- Homage to the Three Jewels
- Honestly looking at our afflictions
- Hope after the Sandy Hook school shooting
- Hot potato
- How a Buddhist deals with burnout
- How a Tibetan Buddhist nun works with her anger
- How and what to eat
- How anger impedes good relationships
- How attachment prevents having good relationships
- How can we deal with anger?
- How compassion changes us
- How do we make ourselves trustworthy?
- How ignorance interferes with good relationships
- How our emotions impact our mind
- How spirituality changed my life
- How to achieve success, happiness and love
- How to age happily
- How to be a 21st Century Buddhist
- How to be a Buddhist in today’s world
- How to be happy without attachment
- How to benefit from Dharma talks
- How to deal with sickness
- How to do prostrations and questions on Dharma in daily life
- How to handle everyday problems
- How to have a happy mind
- How to live in modern times
- How to love the people you dislike
- How to make wise decisions
- How to practice Dharma: a talk for youth and parents
- How to prepare for death
- How to think about the election
- Humor
- Hurtful words, healing words
- I am a Buddhist
- I love problems
- I saw a worm today
- I would normally have been upset
- I’m not an angry person, or am I?
- Identifying anxiety
- Identifying our feelings
- Identity theft
- If here, why not out there?
- Ignorance of the ego
- Imagery and method acting: Cultivating our compassionate selves
- In conversation with Venerable Thubten Chodron
- In the face of violence
- In the footsteps of the Buddha
- In the land of identities
- In the wake of Hurricane Katrina
- Incarcerated people transform adversity into the path
- Inner peace
- Inner peace, world peace
- Inside-out practice
- Inspirations for overcoming anger
- Inspiring story
- Interfaith philosophies
- Intolerance: Look Into Your Own Mind
- Intoxicants
- Introduction to the taking and giving meditation
- Invasive weeds of the mind
- Is euthanizing pets advisable?
- Is this America, or a war zone?
- Islamic-Buddhist dialogue
- It comes from our mind
- It could be worse
- It takes courage on both sides
- It works!!
- It’s never hopeless
- It’s never too late
- It’s not about the money: “Sutta on the Dung Beetle”
- Jewels of the Dharma
- Jewish roots, Buddhist blossoms
- Joshua
- Journey to the operating room and beyond
- Joy and courage
- Joyous effort
- Joys of taking the bodhisattva vows
- Judgmental mind, kindness and compassion
- Jury duty
- Just another day at work
- Just breathe
- Kaleidescope wheel
- Karma and change
- Karma and September 11
- Karma ripening
- Karma, confusion and clarity
- Keep a happy mind
- Keep it simple, stupid
- Keeping balance
- Kindness and forgiveness
- Kindness in practice
- Kindness in times of disagreement
- Kindness of mothers (all beings)
- Kindness to myself
- Kitchen Dharma
- Kuan Yin and compassion
- Kurushimi
- Kwan Yin
- Latka: Feeling left out
- Leading a discussion on forgiveness
- Leading a Medicine Buddha meditation
- Leading an open-hearted life
- Leading meditations and discussions
- Leading ourselves out of addiction
- Learning from illness
- Learning from others
- Learning to be ethical
- Learning to find inner peace
- Learning to forgive
- Learning to live with compassion
- Learning, Living, and Teaching Bodhicitta
- Let the mind see the mind
- Letter to someone whose son committed suicide
- Letting go of attachments
- Letting go of guilt and shame
- Liberation from the eight dangers: Verses 1-3
- Liberation from the eight dangers: Verses 4-8
- Life after the pandemic: It depends on us
- Life in the hole
- Life is like sowing seeds
- Listening to my body
- Live each day with loving-kindness
- Living a balanced life and making wise choices
- Living a happy life: Covid or not
- Living an open-hearted life
- Living in harmony when things fall apart
- Living in harmony with one another
- Living on automatic versus living from our heart
- Living the Buddha’s teachings in the 21st century
- Living with loss
- Living with optimism
- Living without fear
- Living without fear
- Logic and reasoning in daily life
- Loneliness
- Look into your own mind
- Losing a dear one who was young
- Loss of a loved one to suicide
- Loss of a loved one to suicide
- Love
- Love and attachment
- Love and compassion
- Love does no harm
- Love people, not pleasure
- Love unbounded
- Love, compassion, peace
- Loving kindness and compassion in daily life
- Loving oneself and others
- Make a difference
- Make every day a miracle
- Making a real difference
- Making decisions for long term benefit
- Making friends with ourselves
- Making life meaningful
- Making life meaningful in prison
- Making mistakes
- Making our minds receptive to the Dharma
- Making requests and self-reliance
- Making the teachings personal
- Managing anger in a relationship
- Managing our fear of death
- Masks
- Meaning in life by benefiting others
- Medicine Buddha practice for the deceased
- Meditating on death
- Meditating on equanimity
- Meditating on taking and giving
- Meditation for parents grieving the loss of a child
- Meditation in a psychiatric hospital setting
- Meditation on how only spiritual practice helps at death
- Meditation on the eight stages of the death process
- Meditation on the inevitability of death
- Meditation on transforming anger into compassion
- Meditation to raise consciousness for a healthy relationship with nature
- Meditation with noise
- Meeting adversity with joy
- Meeting breast cancer with the Dharma
- Meeting Tara
- Merging the Dharma with daily life
- Mindful awareness
- Mindfulness of death and impermanence
- Mindfulness, contentment, and ABBA
- Misconceptions about compassion
- Morality in a modern world
- More reflections on the Orlando tragedy
- More remedies for anger
- Motivated to not harm
- Moving from the heart
- Moving toward compassion
- Musings at a red light
- My big fat self-centered attitude
- My father’s death
- My favorite pastime is complaining
- My favorite pastime: complaining
- My identity crisis
- My karma beatdown
- My political bias
- My precious opportunity
- My prison education
- My three jewels
- My tiger
- My time in prison
- My trip to the operating theatre and back
- My true religion is kindness
- Nelson Mandela’s advice
- New perspective
- No compassion, no peace
- No more labels
- No more whining
- No need to fake it: Developing true self-confidence
- Noble silence
- Nonviolence and compassion
- Not feeding the fire
- Notes on preparing for a loved one’s death
- Now it’s time to wake up
- Obstacles and antidotes
- Obstacles to compassion
- Offering our food
- Offering precepts in prison
- Offering service
- On attachment
- On death and bereavement
- On marital separation
- On perfectionism
- On the backdrop of time
- One year after the Aurora shooting
- Only spiritual practice can help at death
- Open heart, clear mind
- Opening new doors of opportunity
- Opening up to love
- Optimism and renunciation
- Organ donation is a personal decision
- Our capacity for kindness
- Our circle of suffering
- Our game plan in a time of war
- Our mission as educators
- Our motivation for eating
- Overcoming anger and frustration
- Overcoming anger towards those who use hate speech
- Overcoming anxiety
- Overcoming fear and preconceptions
- Overcoming jealousy
- Overcoming obstacles to practice
- Overcoming the obstacles to developing compassion
- Overcoming unwholesome states
- Overwhelmed?
- Owl
- Owning up, but with hope
- Panic and fear
- Parts repairs and gratitude
- Patience with the path
- Paying attention to life
- Peace and justice after September 11
- Peace practices: Changing the world from the inside out
- People serving time
- Personal demons
- Photos with incarcerated people
- Pink flamingos
- Planned parenting
- Poem to Mom and Dad
- Poems of Human and Spirit
- Politics, Power, and Peace
- Positive effects of Dharma practice
- Positive thinking
- Power to hope, power to heal
- Practical ethics
- Practical ethics and leadership
- Practical ethics from Nagarjuna
- Practice and our mind
- Practices and rituals
- Practices for preparing for death
- Practices for the deceased
- Practicing bodhicitta
- Practicing Buddhism in daily life
- Practicing compassion in helping professions: A Buddhist perspective
- Practicing Dharma with mental illness
- Practicing for a loved one who is ill
- Practicing in prison
- Practicing in prison
- Practicing in the face of cancer
- Practicing the six perfections
- Practicing when having surgery
- Practicing with a year of illness
- Practicing with what’s in front of you
- Practicing with your spiritual mentor’s passing
- Practising and upholding the precepts
- Preparing for a loved one’s death
- Preparing for death
- Preparing spiritually for death
- Preparing well for our death
- Preservation of Tibet’s culture and environment
- Prison and prayer
- Prison Dharma
- Prison labor
- Prison of desire
- Prison outreach in Mexico
- Prison pagoda of loving kindness
- Prison poetry I
- Prison poetry II
- Prison poetry III
- Prison poetry IV
- Prison revisited
- Prison volunteer workshop
- Prison work
- Prison, life, impermanence
- Prisons of the mind
- Purification
- Purifying negative karma
- Purifying our wrong actions
- Push and pull of emotional life
- Qualifications
- Qualities of a friend
- Question and answers on Dharma and life
- Questions and answers on anger
- Questions and answers on Dharma in daily life
- Questions and answers on ethical conduct
- Questions from children
- Racism as a public health crisis
- Raising a moral child
- Re-writing the 12 steps, 1-7
- Re-writing the 12 steps, 8-12
- Reaching out with compassion
- Rebirth and the uncertainty of the time of death
- Recognizing impermanence
- Recognizing negative emotions
- Recognizing our inner beauty
- Redefining boundaries
- Reentry
- Reflecting on precious human life
- Reflection on life
- Reflections after doing retreat on the four establishments of mindfulness
- Reflections of a Jewish Buddhist
- Reflections on “At Hell’s Gate”
- Reflections on anger
- Reflections on my good fortune
- Reflections on rebirth
- Reflections on social media
- Relating to others in the community
- Release from prison: Shock or growth?
- Releasing the need to be the best
- Religious diversity and religious harmony
- Remaining calm
- Remembering Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Removing partiality
- Report on “Nuns in the West I”
- Report on “Nuns in the West II”
- Resistance
- Resistance to practice
- Resources for fearful scenarios
- Respect for common American values
- Respecting others
- Responding to terrorism
- Responding to the election results
- Responding to war with peace
- Retreating from anger
- Return to reality: Love and hate
- Returning the United States to democracy and civility
- Reunion
- Reversing selfishness
- Revoking anger’s “Get out of trouble free” card
- Riding the roller coaster
- Right effort, learning, and love
- Right speech in an age of fake news
- Romance and family life
- Rules of the universe and the benefits of cherishing others
- Ruminating
- Sadness and anger in response to mass shootings
- Safety or guns?
- Saved by the Dharma
- Scars and catharsis
- Scholarship from death row prisoners
- Science and technology in service of society
- Searching for happiness
- Seeing Buddha nature
- Seeing kindness everywhere
- Seeing the kindness of all beings
- Seeing the kindness of others
- Seeking liberation while in prison
- Seeking peace
- Seeking unity, not division
- Self-acceptance
- Self-centeredness and being spiritually stuck
- Self-centeredness and marriage
- Self-compassion
- Self-compassion
- Selflessness keeps you out of SHU
- Serve other beings as much as possible
- Serving one’s spiritual mentor
- Setting a good motivation for surgery
- Setting our motivation
- Shame
- Share your love, wisdom, and wealth
- Sharing
- Sharing positive energy
- Should Buddhists vote?
- Showing up for yourself
- Simplifying our lives
- Sitting with difficulty
- Slow things down and give them some space
- Small acts of compassion can have big results
- So, now what?
- Social action and interfaith dialogue
- Some thoughts on the practice of gratitude
- Speaking of the faults of others
- Spiritual confidence in the workplace
- Spiritually preparing for death
- Spreading compassion
- Squeezing George Washington so tight he cries
- Sravasti Grove
- Stages of grief
- Stateville
- Staying calm in the face of challenges
- Sticking to my principles
- Stinkin’ thinkin’
- Stories of forgiveness
- Straight and clean clear
- Strategies for managing anger
- Street kids
- Strength, joy, and compassion
- Strengthening and maintaining mental well-being—the Buddhist approach
- Stress
- Strong attachment to desire
- Suicide prevention awareness
- Suicide Prevention Awareness Month: September 2019
- Suicide watch
- Supporting a loved one in prison
- Supporting a suicidal person
- Surgery with bodhicitta
- Survival of the most cooperative
- Survival of the most cooperative
- Surviving in the system
- Taking intoxicants
- Taking the bodhisattva vows
- Taking the vow of celibacy
- Talking to the person I used to be
- Teaching children by example
- Teaching meditation in the prison system
- Tears of compassion
- Tears on the front lawn
- Thanks for the Dharma Dispatch
- The 12 steps of Co-Dependents Anonymous
- The 9-point meditation on death
- The allure of drugs
- The amazing effects of compassion
- The beauty of creating the causes
- The Buddhist approach to happiness
- The Buddhist view of anger
- The choices we make
- The coffee pot: A test of my tolerance
- The conversation
- The creator of happiness and suffering
- The critical, judgmental mind
- The cure
- The Dalai Lama on prison life
- The day has finally arrived
- The de facto clause
- The death of a child
- The deer
- The Dharma is flourishing
- The Dharma works
- The disadvantages of holding grudges
- The disadvantages of self-centeredness
- The downside of anger
- The earth is our only home
- The eight pillars of joy
- The eight stages of the death process
- The eight worldly concerns
- The emptiness of giving
- The extinguishing of fires
- The first nonvirtue of speech: Lying (part 1)
- The first nonvirtue of speech: Lying (part 2)
- The fixer
- The formula for happiness
- The four immeasurables
- The four opponent actions for healing broken trust
- The four opponent powers
- The fourth nonvirtue of speech: Idle talk (part 1)
- The fourth nonvirtue of speech: Idle talk (part 2)
- The garden notices the rocks moving
- The golden rule
- The goslings and the terrier
- The great illusion of duality
- The grief and resilience of a mother
- The happiness of an open-hearted life
- The heart connection between monastics and laypeople
- The heart of forgiveness
- The hills we climb
- The human story
- The importance of consistency
- The importance of empathic listening
- The importance of regular practice
- The inevitability of death
- The internal tiger: anger and fear
- The jerk and the potato chips
- The journey
- The judgmental mind
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of sentient beings
- The kindness of strangers
- The liberation of self-forgiveness
- The link between anger and arrogance
- The lion of pride
- The lone Buddhist
- The love of money
- The love that empowers your life
- The meaning and purpose of life
- The meaning of heart
- The meaning of life
- The meeting of Sri Lankan and Tibetan monks
- The merit of offering food and drink
- The middle way
- The Mind and Life III Conference: Emotions and health
- The Mind and Life IV conference: Sleeping, dreaming, and dying
- The Mind and Life VIII conference: Destructive emotions
- The most stable people in prison
- The mule
- The need for correct discernment
- The origin of “The Jew in the Lotus”
- The other shore
- The pagoda project: An update
- The pajama room
- The path and the garden
- The path to self-acceptance
- The peace and beauty of the night’s darkness
- The pitfalls of perfectionism
- The power of compassion in a chaotic world
- The power of compassion, part 1
- The power of compassion, part 2
- The power of compassion, part 3
- The power of compassion, part 4
- The power of forgiveness
- The power of optimism
- The power of optimism and types of emotion
- The power of prayer during a pandemic
- The power of precepts
- The power of respect
- The precept of nonviolence
- The prison way of life
- The purpose of a spiritual mentor
- The reality of adversity
- The Ronco label maker
- The sangha in us all
- The second Gethsemani Encounter
- The second nonvirtue of speech: Divisive speech (part 1)
- The second nonvirtue of speech: Divisive speech (part 2)
- The secret to happiness
- The secret to happiness
- The seven-point instruction of cause and effect
- The silver lining
- The sneaky self-centered thought
- The social impact of gun violence
- The source of happiness and problems
- The spark
- The stench of hatred
- The subtleties of truthful speech
- The Teddy Bear Project
- The third nonvirtue of speech: Harsh speech (part 1)
- The third nonvirtue of speech: Harsh speech (part 2)
- The third nonvirtue of speech: Harsh speech (part 3)
- The true meaning of forgiveness
- The uncertainty of the time of death
- The value of a disciplined way of life
- The value of prison work
- The warrior of dawn
- The way of compassion
- The way we live will affect the way we die
- The whole of the spiritual life
- The wisdom of fear
- Them
- There are no enemies
- Think about it
- Thinking about death
- This hit home
- Thoughts
- Three types of emotion and their influence
- Three virtues entwined
- Thriving in tough times
- Tibetan Lama visits incarcerated people
- Time, inspiration, and gratitude
- To bear the unbearable
- To choose or not to choose
- To Geshela with appreciation
- To go one’s own way
- To reach potential
- Tonglen and social problems
- Too precious to lose
- Tools for Dharma guides
- Towards a century of compassion and peace
- Transfer
- Transforming adversity
- Transforming adversity into bodhicitta
- Transforming aging and illness into the path
- Transforming anger
- Transforming anger into compassion
- Transforming anxiety and depression
- Transforming anxiety and depression in a rapidly changing world
- Transforming depression and anxiety
- Transforming grief into gratitude and love
- Transforming intellectual knowledge into compassionate action: Part 1
- Transforming intellectual knowledge into compassionate action: Part 2
- Transforming knowledge into action
- Transforming knowledge into action
- Transforming problems into the path
- Transforming the mind with compassion
- Transforming the three times
- Transforming to a global village of harmony and peace
- Transforming violence with compassion
- Trauma and recovery
- Treasure the present
- Trouble with relationships
- True liberty for all beings
- Truth
- Try again
- Turning my life around
- Twelve ways to apply compassion in society
- Understanding disturbing emotions
- Understanding Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s passing and praying for his swift return
- Understanding reality
- Understanding the Dalai Lama
- Unforgettable memories
- Universal responsibility and the global environment
- Upon life’s journey
- Using the 12-step program if you’re a Buddhist
- Using the Dharma to manage an unpredictable illness
- Valentine’s Day at Oregon State Prison
- Valuable lesson learned
- Vanquishing depression and anxiety
- Verses after lunch
- Verses after meals
- Verses before meals
- Views on reforming the prison system
- Virtue board
- Visit to Airway Heights Correctional Center
- Visualization and purification
- VRBO
- Waking up to dealing with my anger
- Walking in your footsteps
- Wanting to fix others
- Was the Buddha an activist?
- Watering seeds
- Wayward
- We all can overcome our wrong views
- We are all Michael Brown and Darren Wilson
- We are all prisoners
- We are human beings
- We are impermanence
- We need to remember that we are going to die
- Welcoming refugees
- What a wonderful world!
- What brings happiness
- What brought me to Buddhism
- What Buddhism says about death
- What exactly is happiness?
- What helps at the time of death
- What helps at the time of death
- What I learned about Judaism from the Dalai Lama
- What if the Buddha were a lay woman?
- What is Happiness? (Part 1)
- What is Happiness? (Part 2)
- What is Happiness? (Part 3)
- What is the truth?
- What it means to be happy—a talk with young students
- What mental factors protect trust?
- What the Buddha taught
- What to do when dying
- When a dear one has a medical emergency
- When compassion arises
- When our spiritual mentors pass away
- Where cultural identity and interdependence connect
- Whisper
- White privilege
- Who am I? Really
- Who is making this decision, anyway?
- Who understands me but me
- Who’s poisoning me?
- Who’s responsible for my suffering?
- Wholesome fear of death
- Wholesome or unwholesome seeds
- Why do Buddhists bow and other questions on practice
- Why do I get angry?
- Why not me?
- Why should I fight?
- Why talk about fear?
- Why we need compassion
- Why?
- Wisdom and compassion
- Wisdom and compassion in daily life
- Wisdom from Great Aunt Ga-ga
- Wisdom you can taste
- Wisdom, love, and hatred
- With our thoughts we make the world
- Without a vodka bottle in my hand
- Work
- Work retreat
- Working in a jail
- Working with anger
- Working with anger
- Working with anger
- Working with anger
- Working with anger in daily life
- Working with anger, part 1
- Working with anger, part 2
- Working with attachment to food
- Working with Buddhists behind bars
- Working with Conflict and Making Requests
- Working with doubt
- Working with emotions
- Working with emotions: Anger
- Working with emotions: General antidotes to afflictions
- Working with fear and anxiety
- Working with jealousy
- Working with judgement and partiality
- Working with People in Prison
- Working with unfulfilled expectations
- Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions
- Worldly views
- Worthwhile people
- Yes, but
- YouTube Dharma
Don't Believe Everything You Think
Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience
Engaged Buddhism
- A balanced mind in an election year
- A call for empathy
- A letter from a listener
- A prayer for the world
- A-Bombs, terrorism, and karma
- Activism with altruism
- Analyzing the terrorist
- Assessing our speech and motivation
- Benefitting animals with wisdom and compassion
- Bodhisattva versus white supremacist
- Bringing the Dharma to the Middle East
- Buddhist Advice for Ruling a Kingdom
- Buddhists in conflict
- Can a gun really protect you?
- Caring for our only home
- Compassion after September 11
- Compassion and kindness in the face of terrorism
- Compassion and social action
- Compassion and social engagement
- Compassion and world peace
- Compassion in action
- Compassion in the midst of chaos
- Connecting with compassion
- Consumerism and the environment
- Coronavirus: This is the time to practice
- Cultivating equanimity in a time of violence
- Cultivating peace from the inside out
- Cultivating social harmony
- Cynicism, fear of change, responsibility
- Dealing with racism
- Dealing with violent acts
- Faith leaders united against gun violence
- Faith-based applications to gun violence prevention
- Fear and apathy in response to mass shootings
- Finding hope after the Orlando massacre
- Friend, enemy and stranger
- Fundamentals of being a Dharma guide
- Good practices: Ancient and emerging
- Grieving the Sandy Hook tragedy
- Habitual behaviors and karma
- Harmony after Brexit
- Hate is not conquered by hate
- Healing anger in times of conflict
- Healing from a war
- Holding a space for compassion
- Honestly looking at our afflictions
- Hope after the Sandy Hook school shooting
- How to think about the election
- In the face of violence
- In the wake of Hurricane Katrina
- Is this America, or a war zone?
- It’s never hopeless
- Judgmental mind, kindness and compassion
- Karma and September 11
- Leading a discussion on forgiveness
- Leading a Medicine Buddha meditation
- Leading meditations and discussions
- Life after the pandemic: It depends on us
- Living in harmony when things fall apart
- Living without fear
- Look into your own mind
- Meditation in a psychiatric hospital setting
- Meditation to raise consciousness for a healthy relationship with nature
- Meeting adversity with joy
- More reflections on the Orlando tragedy
- Motivated to not harm
- No compassion, no peace
- Nonviolence and compassion
- One year after the Aurora shooting
- Our game plan in a time of war
- Overcoming anger towards those who use hate speech
- Overcoming fear and preconceptions
- Panic and fear
- Peace and justice after September 11
- Politics, Power, and Peace
- Practices and rituals
- Preservation of Tibet’s culture and environment
- Racism as a public health crisis
- Respect for common American values
- Responding to terrorism
- Responding to the election results
- Responding to war with peace
- Returning the United States to democracy and civility
- Sadness and anger in response to mass shootings
- Safety or guns?
- Seeing the kindness of others
- Seeking unity, not division
- Should Buddhists vote?
- Tears on the front lawn
- The earth is our only home
- The golden rule
- The power of prayer during a pandemic
- The silver lining
- The social impact of gun violence
- Tonglen and social problems
- Too precious to lose
- Tools for Dharma guides
- Towards a century of compassion and peace
- True liberty for all beings
- Universal responsibility and the global environment
- Was the Buddha an activist?
- We all can overcome our wrong views
- We are all Michael Brown and Darren Wilson
- Welcoming refugees
- White privilege
Engaging in the Bodhisattva's Deeds
Essential Spiritual Advice
Ethics in the Modern World
Exploring Monastic Life 2005
Exploring Monastic Life 2006
Exploring Monastic Life 2007
Exploring Monastic Life 2008
Exploring Monastic Life 2009
Exploring Monastic Life 2010
Exploring Monastic Life 2011
Exploring Monastic Life 2012
Exploring Monastic Life 2013
Exploring Monastic Life 2014
Exploring Monastic Life 2015
Exploring Monastic Life 2016
Exploring Monastic Life 2017
Exploring Monastic Life 2018
Exploring Monastic Life 2019
Exploring Monastic Life 2021
Exploring Monastic Life 2022
Exploring Monastic Life 2023
Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions
Four Establishments of Mindfulness (Russia)
Four Establishments of Mindfulness Retreat
Four Truths for the Aryas
Four-armed Chenrezig Retreat with Ven. Sangye Khadro (2023)
Gomchen Lamrim
- Afflictions and the accumulation of karma
- Antidotes to the eight worldly concerns and the ten innermost jewels
- Aspiring bodhicitta
- Attachment, anger, and conceit
- Attaining serenity
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 1-6
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 13-18
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 19-20
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 21-25
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 25-34
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 35-39
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 40-46
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 7-12
- Avoiding rebirth in the lower realms
- Benefits of cherishing others
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints 11-18
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints 5-10
- Chandrakirti’s homage to great compassion
- Contemplating specific aspects of karma
- Contemplating the eight types of dukkha, part 1
- Contemplating the eight types of dukkha, part 2
- Death and the intermediate state
- Dependent arising
- Developing conviction in karma
- Disadvantages of self-centeredness
- Equalizing self and others
- Equanimity—freedom from bias
- Ethical conduct review
- Examples of mutual dependence
- Extensive giving
- Fortitude and religious intolerance
- Fortitude review
- From serenity to the jhanas
- Generating renunciation
- Giving to all sentient beings
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Aspiring Bodhicitta
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Birth, aging, sickness, and death
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Bodhicitta
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Cultivating compassion
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Developing conviction in karma
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Equanimity
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Equanimity and equalizing self and others
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Exchanging self for others
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Homage to compassion
- Gomchen lamrim review: How to rely on the teachings and teachers
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Karma
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Karma in daily life
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Precious human life
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Refuge in the Three Jewels
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Reliance on a spiritual mentor
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Remembering death brings life to our practice
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Seven-point cause and effect instruction
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Seven-point cause and effect instruction continued
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Specific aspects of karma
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The 37 harmonies
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The actual meditation session
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The afflictions
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The causes for taking refuge
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The importance of remembering death
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The six preparatory practices
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The teachings, teachers, and students
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The truth of dukkha
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Two meditations on death
- Gomchen Lamrim study guide
- Great compassion and the great resolve
- Great resolve and bodhicitta
- Heartwarming love
- How the afflictions arise
- How to listen to and explain the Dharma teachings
- How to meditate on insight
- How to rely on spiritual mentors in thought and deed
- How to take full advantage of a precious human rebirth
- How to take refuge in the Three Jewels
- Identifying afflictive ignorance
- Identifying inherent existence
- Identifying the person
- Ignorance, doubt, and afflictive views
- Illusion-like appearances
- Joyous effort
- Joyous effort review
- Meditation session outline
- Meditative stability
- More on joyous effort
- More on the ten paths of nonvirtue today
- Nine stages of sustained attention
- Nine-point meditation on death
- Objects of meditation
- Objects of meditation: Pali tradition
- Offering our bodies to sentient beings
- Perfection of generosity
- Points on karma and purification using the four forces
- Real and unreal
- Realizing selflessness
- Reflecting on the six types of dukkha
- Review of cultivating insight into emptiness
- Review of five faults and eight antidotes
- Review of serenity
- Review of three kinds of dependent arising
- Review: Nine stages of sustained attention
- Seeing all sentient beings as having been our kind mothers
- Self centeredness and the five decisions
- Serenity and insight
- Six conditions for serenity
- Taking on the suffering of others
- Taking rebirth from the intermediate state
- Taking-and-giving meditation
- The 37 harmonies with awakening
- The 37 harmonies with awakening, part 2
- The benefits of remembering death
- The causes of bodhicitta
- The correct view
- The drawbacks to not remembering death
- The effects of negative karma
- The factors that influence karmic weight
- The five faults and eight antidotes
- The five hindrances to meditative stabilization
- The five types of afflictive views
- The four great qualities of the lamrim
- The freedoms and fortunes of a precious human rebirth
- The mental nonvirtues: coveting, malice and wrong views
- The nonvirtues of harsh speech and idle talk
- The nonvirtues of lying and divisive speech
- The nonvirtues of stealing and sexual misconduct
- The object of negation
- The perfection of ethical conduct
- The perfection of fortitude
- The perfection of generosity
- The permutations of karma
- The precepts for aspiring and engaging bodhicitta
- The qualities of spiritual mentors and students
- The qualities of the Three Jewels
- The relationship between the two truths
- The six far-reaching practices
- The six preliminary practices, part 1
- The six preliminary practices, part 2
- The ten paths of nonvirtue today
- The three types of fortitude
- The two truths
- The vast benefits of bodhicitta
- Three kinds of dependent arising
- Three types of compassion
- Virtuous karma and its effects
- What makes karma powerful
- What to do during the meditation session and between sessions
Good Karma Annual Retreat
Good Karma Short Retreats
Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2015
Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2020
Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010
Harmony with the Environment
Healing from Gun Violence
Helping the Dying and Deceased
How to See Yourself As You Really Are
Illumination of the Thought
Library of Wisdom and Compassion
- Saying goodbye to our spiritual teachers
- “Approaching the Buddhist Path”: Dependent arising and emptiness
- “Approaching the Buddhist Path”: Designation by term and concept
- “Approaching the Buddhist Path”: Exploring Buddhism
- “Approaching the Buddhist Path”: Mind training
- “Approaching the Buddhist Path”: The Buddhist view of life
- “Approaching the Buddhist Path”: The nature of the mind
- “Courageous Compassion” book launch
- “Courageous Compassion”: Reading and commentary
- “In Praise of Great Compassion” book launch
- A broad perspective
- Afflictions and karma, their seeds and latencies
- Afflictions and the nature of the mind
- Afflictions are the enemy
- Afflictions are weak
- Afflictions, our real enemy
- Afflictive views
- Aging or death
- Anger and disillusionment
- Applying karma to our lives
- Approaching the Buddhist Path
- Are sentient beings already Buddhas?
- Arya disposition and Buddha nature
- Authenticity of the mahayana scriptures
- Auxiliary afflictions
- Auxiliary afflictions in the Pali tradition
- Awareness of our buddha nature eliminates hindrances
- Becoming a qualified disciple
- Benefits of meditating on the the 12 links
- Benefits of practicing the Pratimoksha
- Birth
- Bodhisattva’s refuge and ethical conduct
- Bodhisattvas’ path to awakening
- Body, mind, rebirth and self
- Buddha as a reliable guide, reverse order
- Buddha nature
- Buddhahood depends on sentient beings
- Buddhism in Tibet
- Causal clear light mind
- Checking our meditation experiences
- Classification of phenomena
- Clinging and renewed existence
- Clusters of afflictions
- Common guidelines and maintaining proper refuge
- Compassion and the determination to be free
- Concentration, knowledge & vision and disenchantment
- Conceptual and non-conceptual consciousnesses
- Concluding teaching
- Consciousness
- Constructive actions and the weight of karma
- Consumerism and the environment
- Contemplating the seven limbs
- Conventional and ultimate analysis
- Correct reasons and reliable cognizers
- Correctly understanding the point
- Counterforces to the afflictions
- Courageous Compassion
- Craving
- Craving and clinging
- Creating our future
- Cultivating excellent qualities
- Cultivating love and compassion
- Cultivating love and compassion, a review
- Definite and indefinite karma
- Dependent arising
- Disadvantages of the eight worldly concerns
- Disagreement and conflict
- Discerning virtuous from nonvirtuous actions
- Distinguishing features of the Three Jewels
- Dormant and manifest consciousnesses
- Early Buddhism in Sri Lanka
- Early Buddhist schools
- Eight excellent qualities of sangha jewel
- Eight excellent qualities of the buddha jewel
- Eight excellent qualities of the dharma jewel
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 1-2
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 3-6
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 7-8
- Eighty-four thousand afflictions
- Emotions and klesas
- Emptiness, its nature, its purpose, and its meaning
- Engaged Buddhism and political involvement
- Entrance to the Buddhist path
- Equality of samsara and nirvana
- Equality of samsara and nirvana
- Evaluating the authenticity of teachings
- Exaggerated statements?
- Examples illustrating rebirth
- Examples of how we cycle
- Examples to understand rebirth
- Excellent qualities can be built up cumulatively
- Excellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
- Excellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
- Excellent qualities can be enhanced
- Explicit and implicit presentations of the 12 links
- Exploring Buddhism
- Facing an ethical crisis
- Factors causing afflictions to arise
- Factors that determine the weight of karma
- Faith, purification, and merit
- Faulty conceptualization
- Feeling
- Feelings and the ethical dimension of afflictions
- Fetters and pollutants
- Final and provisional refuges
- Finding true happiness
- First-link ignorance
- Following in the Buddha’s Footsteps
- Following in the Buddha’s Footsteps
- Formally taking refuge
- Formative action
- Four attributes of true cessations
- Four attributes of true duhkha
- Four attributes of true origins
- Four attributes of true paths
- Four buddha bodies
- Four kinds of self-confidence, ten powers
- Four puzzling points
- Four truths and three levels of practitioners
- Freedom from cyclic existence
- General characteristics of karma
- Generosity of the heart
- Gradual progress and cultivating bodhicitta
- Guidelines for each of the Three Jewels
- Having-ceased
- Higher ethical codes and making mistakes
- How to listen to the Dharma
- How to study the teachings
- Imperceptible forms
- In Praise of Great Compassion
- In praise of great compassion
- Intention karma and intended karma
- Intention, karmic paths and afflictions
- Interrelationship of the lamrim topics
- Intoxicants and celibacy
- Is liberation possible?
- Is liberation possible?
- Is the Buddha’s word always spoken by the Buddha?
- Karma and current ethical issues
- Karma and current ethical issues continued
- Karma and its effects
- Karma and our environment
- Karma in samsara and beyond
- Karma that ripens at death
- Kinds of duhkha
- Lamrim and six preparatory practices
- Last six of the unshared qualities
- Levels of mind
- Like gold in filth
- Like illusions
- Living with an awareness of impermanence and death
- Looking beyond this life
- Making requests, receiving blessings, and gaining realizations
- Mental non-virtues
- Mental states and situations that are troublesome, a review
- Mind and emotions
- Mind and the external world
- Mind is the source of happiness
- Mind training
- More on seeds and latencies
- Nagarjuna’s analysis of arising
- Name and form
- Nature of the mind
- Nine similes for Tathāgatagarbha
- Nine-point death meditation
- Nirvana
- Nirvana as the object of meditation
- Nirvana in the Pali tradition
- Nirvana is true peace
- Nominally existent self
- Nothing is to be removed
- Object ascertaining and virtuous mental factors
- One taste
- Only the Dharma helps at death
- Other life forms
- Other types of afflictions
- Our human value
- Overcoming the four distorted conceptions
- Paths for spiritual development
- Powa, transference of consciousness
- Prayers, rituals, and practice
- Preventing and resolving problems
- Primordially pure awareness
- Prostrations and the four Buddha Bodies
- Purification of misdeeds with Q&A
- Purifying destructive karma
- Q&A on the 12 links of dependent origination
- Qualities of Buddha’s body, speech and mind
- Qualities to abandon and cultivate
- Questions and answers on ethical conduct
- Questions and answers on meditation
- Realistic expectations
- Realms of existence
- Rebirth: Past and future lives
- Recollection of the Buddha
- Recollection of the Dharma and Sangha
- Reflection on cultivating excellent qualities
- Refuge and bodhicitta
- Relating to our teacher by action
- Reliable cognizers and meditation
- Reliable cognizers and syllogisms
- Reliable cognizers based on example and authoritative testimony
- Religion in the modern world
- Relying on a spiritual mentor
- Renewed existence
- Requesting inspiration
- Review of attachment
- Review of Buddha nature
- Review of Chapter 10
- Review of Chapter 2
- Review of Chapter 3
- Review of Chapter 4
- Review of Chapter 5
- Review of Chapter 6
- Review of Chapter 7
- Review of chapter 9
- Review of Chapter 9
- Review of chapters 10 and 11
- Review of chapters 4 and 5
- Review of chapters 6 and 7
- Review of dependent origination
- Review of emotions and afflictions
- Review of emotions and feelings
- Review of fear, anger and disillusionment
- Review of feeling
- Review of loving kindness
- Review of precious human life
- Review of tenets and buddha nature
- Review of the 10 nonvirtuous actions
- Review of the 4 fearlessnesses and 10 powers
- Review of the four seals
- Review of the four truths
- Review of the four truths
- Review of the Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha
- Review of the nature of mind
- Review of the possibility of ending duhkha
- Review of the self
- Review of true duhkha
- Rigpa
- Role models
- Roles and responsibilities of a spiritual mentor
- Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha nature
- Saying goodbye to our spiritual teachers
- Science and gender equality
- Searching for the self
- Seeing the guru as Buddha
- Sentience, mind, and brain
- Six sources
- Sources, contact, feeling
- Spread of Buddhadharma
- Stages on the path to awakening
- Structuring a meditation session
- Structuring a meditation session
- Subtlest clear light mind
- Taking refuge
- Tantra and Buddhist canons
- Ten powers
- Ten powers and eighteen unshared qualities
- The “Ye Dharma Dharani”
- The 18 unshared qualities of a buddha
- The actual session and dedications
- The attributes of the four truths
- The benefits of relying on a spiritual mentor
- The body and mind
- The Buddha as a reliable guide
- The Buddha responds to questions about rebirth
- The Buddha’s omniscient mind
- The Buddhist view of the mind
- The complexity of karma
- The death process
- The difficulty of attaining a precious human life
- The eight excellent qualities of the dharma jewel
- The eight worldly concerns
- The entrance to the Buddhist path
- The essence of a meaningful life
- The ethical conduct of gathering virtue and benefiting sentient beings
- The ethical conduct of restraining from nonvirtue
- The existence of the Three Jewels
- The Foundation of Buddhist Practice
- The four maras
- The four seals of Buddhism: The first seal
- The four seals of Buddhism: The second, third and fourth seals
- The four truths
- The four truths of the aryas
- The general and specific characteristics of karma
- The growth of the Mahayana
- The importance of ethical conduct
- The importance of motivation
- The importance of realizing emptiness
- The importance of realizing the ultimate nature
- The library of wisdom and compassion
- The Middle Way view
- The mind and its potential
- The mind’s potential and the existence of the Three Jewels
- The mind’s potential in the Pali tradition
- The nature of mind
- The object of negation
- The order in which afflictions arise
- The origin of duhkha
- The path of the initial level practitioner
- The possibility of ending duhkha
- The potential for liberation
- The power of afflictions and purification
- The practices of bodhisattvas—four types of generosity
- The practices of bodhisattvas—the six perfections
- The Pratimoksha ethical code
- The purity of emptiness
- The purity of the mind
- The qualities of a spiritual mentor
- The reasoning behind rebirth
- The reasons for taking refuge
- The results of karma
- The ripening of karma
- The root afflictions: Anger
- The root afflictions: Arrogance
- The root afflictions: Attachment
- The root afflictions: Ignorance
- The root of samsara
- The ten powers of the Tathagata
- The three baskets
- The Three Jewels
- The three results of karma
- The threefold analysis
- The two obscurations
- The two truths and non-deceptive knowledge
- The value of the monastic community
- The workings of karma
- Three aspects of the Tathagatagarbha
- Three jewels according to the fundamental vehicle
- Three jewels according to the perfection vehicle
- Three Jewels in the Vajra Vehicle
- Three Jewels of the Vajra vehicle
- Three kinds of karmic result
- Three nonvirtues of mind
- Three questions about the self
- Three turnings of the Dharma wheel
- Tools for the path
- Transcendental dependent origination
- Transforming and naturally abiding Buddha nature
- True cessations
- True duhkha
- Turning the Dharma wheel and buddha nature
- Twenty-first century Buddhists
- Two aims and four reliances
- Types of awareness
- Types of duhkha
- Types of nirvana
- Ultimate nature of the twelve links
- Unborn clear light mind
- Understanding ignorance
- Using the subtlest clear light mind on the path
- Vehicles and paths
- Verbal non-virtues
- View of a personal identity
- Virtue, nonvirtue, merit, and roots of nonvirtue
- Virtuous and variable mental factors & the afflictions
- What is mind?
- What obscures our buddha nature
- What to practice while dying
- When karma ripens
- Who can receive teachings on emptiness?
- Who experiences the 12 links?
- Willingness to undergo hardship
- Working in the world
- Working with the afflictions review
Living with an Open Heart
LR02 Introduction to the Lamrim
LR03 The Six Preparatory Practices
LR04 Relying on a Spiritual Teacher
LR09 The Four Truths for the Aryas
LR10 Noble Eightfold Path
LR11 Twelve Links of Dependent Arising
LR12 Cultivating Bodhicitta
LR13 Bodhisattva Ethical Restraints
Manjushri Weeklong Retreat 2019
Manjushri Weeklong Retreat 2022
Manjushri Winter Retreat 2008-09
Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015
Medicine Buddha Weeklong Retreat 2000
Medicine Buddha Weeklong Retreat 2016
Medicine Buddha Weeklong Retreat 2021
Medicine Buddha Winter Retreat 2007-08
Meditation
- “Bodhisattvas’ Confession of Ethical Downfalls”
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 1-28 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 1-5
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 12-15
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 15-19
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 20-26
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 27-28
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 29-34
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 35-42
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 43-47
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 6-11
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 1-8 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 9-18 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verse 40 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 19-24 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 25-33 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 34-39 review
- ༄༅། །ནུབ་པ་རིག་འཛིན་གྲགས་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པའི་ཞེན་པ་བཞི་བྲལ་བཞུགས། །
- 1000-armed Chenrezig deity sadhana with guided meditation
- 1000-armed Chenrezig meditation
- 108 Verses: A bucket in a well
- 108 Verses: Verse 47 and dependence on others
- 108 Verses: Verse 7
- 108 Verses: Verse 7
- 108 Verses: Verse 8
- 108 Verses: Verse 9
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-14
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-3
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-6
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-6
- 108 Verses: Verses 10-12
- 108 Verses: Verses 100-108
- 108 Verses: Verses 13-14
- 108 Verses: Verses 15-17
- 108 Verses: Verses 15-19
- 108 Verses: Verses 17-21
- 108 Verses: Verses 20-26
- 108 Verses: Verses 27-34
- 108 Verses: Verses 35-41
- 108 Verses: Verses 43-46
- 108 Verses: Verses 48-52
- 108 Verses: Verses 52-53
- 108 Verses: Verses 54-56
- 108 Verses: Verses 57-62
- 108 Verses: Verses 63-70
- 108 Verses: Verses 7-9
- 108 Verses: Verses 71-76
- 108 Verses: Verses 76-77
- 108 Verses: Verses 78-81
- 108 Verses: Verses 8-9
- 108 Verses: Verses 84-99
- 35 Buddhas commentary
- 37 Practices: Verses 1-3
- 37 Practices: Verses 10-15
- 37 Practices: Verses 16-21
- 37 Practices: Verses 22-24
- 37 Practices: Verses 25-28
- 37 Practices: Verses 29-37
- 37 Practices: Verses 4-6
- 37 Practices: Verses 7-9
- 41 Prayers to Cultivate Bodhicitta
- A bodhisattva’s generosity
- A content and disciplined retreat mind
- A discussion about anger
- A discussion about retreat
- A glance meditation on all the important points of lamrim
- A lamentation requesting blessings from the Great Compassionate One
- A Mahayana practice
- A modern mandala offering
- A personal study of grief and some antidotes
- A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness
- A reliable guide
- A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible
- A Song of the Four Mindfulnesses
- A Song to Mummy Tara in These Dire Times
- A vast perspective
- A weekend with Tara
- Abbreviated recitations
- Activities of wrath
- Advice for beginner meditators
- Advice for Dharma practice
- Advice on concluding retreat
- Afflicted views
- Afflictions and antidotes
- All about White Tara
- Alternative ways to deal with afflictions
- Amitabha Buddha deity sadhana with guided meditation
- Amitabha Buddha practice
- Amitabha practice across traditions
- Amitabha practice: Aspiration prayer
- Amitabha practice: Aspirational prayer
- Amitabha practice: Chanting and visualization
- Amitabha practice: Dedication verses
- Amitabha practice: Fear at time of death
- Amitabha practice: Mantra recitation
- Amitabha practice: Mantra recitation and visualization
- Amitabha practice: Offering the mandala
- Amitabha practice: Practice while we are alive
- Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death
- Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death, part 1
- Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death, part 2
- Amitabha practice: Pure land rebirth
- Amitabha practice: Refuge and bodhicitta
- Amitabha practice: Refuge visualization
- Amitabha practice: Requesting inspiration
- Amitabha practice: The four immeasurables
- An explanation of the four immeasurables
- Analysis of mindfulness
- Analyzing the body
- Answering questions from retreatants
- Antidotes to afflictions
- Antidotes to desire
- Apologies and forgiveness
- Applying antidotes to the afflictions
- Applying the teachings
- Appreciating the time for analysis
- Arya Tara: A star by which to navigate
- Assembly of the Immeasurable Life Tathāgata
- Attachment and serenity
- Attachment to ideas
- Attachment to personal identity
- Attachment to reputation
- Awareness of emptiness
- Bad moods and self-criticism
- Balance in body, speech, and mind
- Base of pure ethics
- Basic goodness
- Becoming Vajrasattva
- Beginning love with ourselves
- Being a friend to yourself
- Being dispassionate toward perception
- Being realistic and compassionate
- Believing what others believe about us
- Benefits of ethical conduct
- Benefits of forgiveness
- Benefits of reciting verses
- Benefits of the retreat from afar
- Beyond blame
- Bodhicitta
- Bodhicitta as the result
- Bodhicitta motivation
- Bodhicitta, dukkha, and mindfulness
- Bodhisattva practices
- Bowing and making offerings to Amitabha
- Branches of increasing merit
- Breathing meditation
- Buddha nature
- Buddha nature
- Buddha nature and omniscient mind
- Buddhas and deities
- Buddhist and psychological views on grief
- Buddhist day of miracles
- Buddhist mindfulness and secular mindfulness
- Calming the mind
- Caring for our grief
- Caring mind towards everyone
- Causal dependence and karma
- Causes for pure land rebirth
- Chanting practices and rituals
- Chanting practices for the dying
- Chants before and after teachings
- Chenrezig front-generation practice
- Chenrezig mantra and absorption
- Chenrezig retreat 2012 introduction
- Chenrezig retreat discussion: Part 1
- Chenrezig retreat discussion: Part 2
- Chenrezig sadhana
- Chenrezig sadhana glance meditation
- Cherishing others
- Chinese New Year Tsog motivation
- Clairvoyant powers
- Clarifying the practice
- Climate grief and resilience
- Clinging to feelings
- Clinging to our identity
- Collective karma and negativities to confess
- Coming out of our shell
- Coming out of retreat
- Commentary on a request to Tara
- Communicating with a Dharma friend who has dementia
- Compassion
- Compassion burnout
- Compassion for ourselves and others
- Compassion from Tara
- Compassion observing phenomena
- Compassion observing sentient beings
- Compassion observing the unapprehendable
- Compassion seeing emptiness
- Compassion: The second immeasurable thought
- Concentration and the six perfections
- Concentration as a Buddhist practice
- Concentration in Buddhist practice
- Concentration meditation on the Buddha
- Concentration: Worldview, technique, result
- Conditioned fear
- Conditions conducive for developing concentration
- Conditions for serenity retreat
- Confessing ethical downfalls
- Confession of negativities
- Confidence in purification
- Connecting with Amitabha Buddha
- Connecting with compassion
- Contemplating causality
- Contemplating the Medicine Buddha vows
- Conventional and ultimate bodhicitta
- Conventional and ultimate existence
- Conventional and ultimate truth
- Create karma, accumulate merit, apply antidote
- Creating identities
- Creating the causes for rebirth in Amitabha’s pure land
- Criteria for developing serenity
- Cultivating a bodhicitta motivation
- Cultivating Amitabha’s attitude
- Cultivating bodhicitta
- Cultivating contentment
- Cultivating love on Valentine’s Day
- Cultivating loving-kindness
- Cultivating respect for karma
- Cultivating satisfaction
- Cultivating serenity
- Cultivating serenity in daily life
- Cultivating wisdom
- Cutting through the mundane mind
- Daily practice chants
- Dealing with afflictions and illness
- Dealing with difficult people
- Dealing with distractions
- Dealing with spirits and sickness
- Dealing with the craving for excitement
- Death: The only thing we have to do
- Debrief after retreat
- Dedicating for awakening
- Dedication and karma
- Dedication and rejoicing
- Dedication and self-acceptance
- Dedication as generosity
- Dedication for a meaningful life
- Dedication from “Engaging in the Deeds of Bodhisattvas”
- Dedication from “Stages of the Path to Awakening”
- Deity practice
- Deity yoga: You are Tara
- Deluded thinking and labeling
- Denial of death
- Dependent arising in the sadhana
- Dependent arising: Causal dependence
- Dependent arising: Dependence on parts
- Dependent arising: Dependent designation
- Designating labels: Rinpoches and lamas
- Desire and happiness
- Determining to benefit others
- Developing a relationship with Vajrasattva
- Developing an attraction to Chenrezig
- Developing equanimity
- Developing equanimity
- Developing great compassion
- Developing love and compassion
- Developing self-acceptance
- Developing the seven wisdoms of Manjushri
- Dharma advice
- Dharma and ordinary world view
- Dharma protector practices
- Dharma refuge
- Different ways of meditating on the four establishments
- Discourse on “The Removal of Distracting Thoughts”
- Discriminating wisdom
- Discussion on kindness of others
- Dismantling personal identity
- Dismantling preconceptions
- Distractions, the mind, and compassion
- Distrust of false appearances
- Dorje Khadro sadhana
- Doubt
- Doubt
- Dropping our garbage
- Dullness and drowsiness
- Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
- Eight verses of thought transformation
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 1-3
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 4-5
- Embodying the qualities of Tara
- Emotions, refuge, and emptiness
- Empathetic joy: The third immeasurable thought
- Emptiness
- Emptiness and conceptual designation
- Emptiness and non-duality
- Emptiness and worldly appearances
- Emptiness as the nature of phenomena
- Emptiness feels so solid
- Emptiness of the body
- Emptiness, karma, and the stages of grief
- End of retreat Q&A
- Enlightened speech
- Enlightening the path in our hearts
- Ensuring our connection with the teachings and teacher
- Entering Manjushri retreat
- Equalizing self and others
- Equanimity and Chenrezig
- Equanimity and forgiveness
- Equanimity and loving kindness
- Equanimity: The fourth immeasurable thought
- Essence of Refined Gold
- Ethical behavior and happiness
- Ethical conduct in the workplace
- Examining the mind
- Exchanging self and others
- Excitement and laxity; not applying and over-applying the antidote
- Explanation of the Dorje Khadro fire offering
- Explanation of the extensive offering practice
- Explanation of the Manjushri sadhana
- Explanation of the Medicine Buddha practice
- Explanation of the Vajrasattva sadhana
- Extraordinary aspiration: The seven-limb practice
- Facing decisions with courage
- Facing fears
- Fear and wisdom fear
- Fearlessness and refuge
- Feeling bad helps our practice
- Feelings and the yo-yo mind
- Feelings dominate our reactivity
- Feelings that arise while doing purification
- Finding inspiration in the qualities of Medicine Buddha
- Finding refuge in Vajrasattva
- Following the Buddha’s advice
- Food offering: Labeling on a valid basis
- Forgetting the object of meditation
- Forgiving ourselves
- Fortitude and joyous effort
- Foundation for bodhicitta
- Four immeasurables and seven-limb prayer
- Four keys to wellbeing
- Four observed objects
- Four types of nirvana
- Freedom from the Four Fixations
- Freedom through imagination
- Freeing yourself from jealousy
- Friends, enemies and strangers
- Generating bodhicitta
- Generating regret
- Generating wealth
- Getting unstuck from attachment and anger
- Giving up clinging to this life
- Giving up our poor-quality view
- Giving up self-centeredness
- Good and bad retreat days
- Grasping at inherent existence
- Grateful mind, happy mind
- Gratitude to retreatants from afar
- Gratitude towards parents
- Great compassion and nondual awareness
- Green Tara sadhana (short)
- Green Tara sadhana with the Eight Dangers
- Gross impermanence
- Guided meditation on cyclic existence
- Guided meditation on Tara
- Guided meditation on the Buddha
- Guided meditation on the Medicine Buddha
- Guided meditation on Vajrasattva
- Guided meditation on Verse 7
- Guided meditations on the lamrim
- Guided meditations on the lamrim in Spanish
- Guilt, shame, and forgiveness
- Happiness and pleasures
- Happiness of others around us
- Healing anger with Tara
- Hearing, thinking, and meditating
- Hearing, thinking, meditating
- Hindrances and antidotes
- Hindrances to concentration
- Hindrances to serenity
- History of the eight Mahayana precepts
- Holding a retreat mind
- Homage to Amitabha Buddha chant
- Homage to Compassion
- Homage to Manjushri
- Homage to Manjushri, the Buddha of wisdom
- Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha
- Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha chant
- Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha practice
- Homage to the 21 Taras
- How anger functions
- How are we different from turkeys?
- How arrogance plays out in our lives
- How do I know that I have purified?
- How do living beings exist?
- How feelings create dukkha
- How karma works
- How purification works
- How renunciation brings happiness
- How samsara evolves
- How Tantra fits into the path
- How things exist
- How to approach retreat
- How to be mindful of the mind
- How to deal with afflictions
- How to do the Dorje Khadro practice
- How to do the prostration practice
- How to free your mind: The Tara sadhana and counteracting the eight dangers
- How to keep meditation interesting
- How to make mandala offerings
- How to make the mandala offering mudra
- How to make the most of Retreat from Afar
- How to meditate on the breath
- How to Meditate: Advice for daily practice
- How to meditate: An interview with Venerable Sangye Khadro
- How to Meditate: Purpose and posture
- How to Meditate: Remedies for distractions
- How to practice between sessions
- How to practice in retreat
- How to practice well
- How to recite mantra
- How to relate to the deity
- How to see Tara
- How to see the guru
- How to set up an altar
- How to sit in meditation
- How to study, reflect, and meditate
- How we create negative karma
- Identifying mental factors within our own minds
- Ignorance, anger, purification
- Ill will
- Illuminating the Threefold Faith
- Immeasurable compassion
- Immeasurable compassion
- Immeasurable equanimity
- Immeasurable equanimity
- Immeasurable joy
- Immeasurable joy and equanimity
- Immeasurable love
- Importance of the Buddhist worldview
- Inability to settle on a path
- Incense offering chant
- Independent and dependent existence
- Inherent views and opinions
- Initial experiences of retreatants
- Initiations and empowerments
- Inspiration and long life from Tara
- Instruction videos on prostrations
- Instructions on the Dorje Khadro practice
- Interdependence and equanimity
- Introducing the four immeasurables
- Introducing the text and author
- Introduction and Chenrezig sadhana
- Introduction to 2011 Chenrezig retreat
- Introduction to breathing meditation
- Introduction to Chenrezig
- Introduction to Chenrezig practice
- Introduction to Chenrezig practice
- Introduction to Chenrezig Practice
- Introduction to Chenrezig practice
- Introduction to Manjushri practice
- Introduction to Medicine Buddha practice
- Introduction to Nyung Ne
- Introduction to tantra
- Introduction to the Amitabha practice
- Introduction to the four establishments of mindfulness
- Introduction to the practice
- Introduction to the seven-limb practice
- Introduction to Vajrasattva retreat
- Introduction to vajrayana
- Investigating blame
- Investigating happiness
- It’s time to change your mind
- Jealousy: Its definition and antidotes
- Just go free-form
- Karma is definite
- Karma with holy beings and teachers
- Karma with teachers and parents
- Karma, formative action, and volitional factors
- Keep on going
- Keeping calm when facing harm
- La Reyna de las Plegarias
- Labeling thoughts and emotions
- Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga
- Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga, Part 1
- Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga, Part 2
- Lama Tsongkhapa’s kindness
- Lamrim meditation and the sadhana
- Lamrim meditation in Tara sadhana
- Laziness and its antidotes
- Learning from death
- Learning to let go during purification
- Lethargy, sleepiness, restlessness, remorse
- Letting go of identities
- Letting go of self
- Life after retreat
- Life force and the four elements
- Life support or not?
- Light and nectar flowing from Tara
- Living like we believe in karma
- Living within the five precepts
- Lojong antidotes to grief
- Long Green Tara sadhana with guided meditation
- Long life prayers
- Looking for the “I”
- Loosening our identities
- Love and contentment
- Love your neighbor
- Love, compassion, and bodhicitta
- Loving-kindness: The first immeasurable thought
- Mahayana establishments of mindfulness
- Making decisions
- Making friends with ourselves
- Making friends with ourselves
- Making grief meaningful
- Making life meaningful
- Making mindfulness meaningful
- Making offerings
- Making progress in meditation
- Malice and lethargy
- Mandala and the far-reaching attitudes
- Mandala offering, refuge and bodhicitta
- Mandala offerings
- Manjushri and the three vehicles
- Manjushri deity sadhana with guided meditation
- Manjushri meditation on emptiness
- Manjushri sadhana overview
- Mantras and symbols
- Meaningful life, remembering death
- Measuring progress
- Medicine Buddha and the 35 Buddhas
- Medicine Buddha deity sadhana with guided meditation
- Medicine Buddha guided sadhana
- Medicine Buddha healing visualizations
- Medicine Buddha practice for the deceased
- Medicine Buddha practice: Mandala offering and request prayers
- Medicine Buddha practice: The seven limb prayer
- Medicine Buddha retreat: Questions and answers
- Medicine Buddha sadhana explained
- Medicine Buddha vow 4
- Medicine Buddha vow 8
- Medicine Buddha vows 1-3
- Medicine Buddha vows 5-7
- Medicine Buddha vows 9-12
- Medicine Buddha’s unshakeable resolves
- Medicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves 1-6
- Medicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves 7-12
- Meditating on compassion
- Meditating on equanimity
- Meditating on impermanence
- Meditating on mindfulness of feelings
- Meditating on our precious human life
- Meditating on taking and giving
- Meditating on the four establishments of mindfulness
- Meditating on the four immeasurables
- Meditating on three types of compassion
- Meditation 101
- Meditation 101: Advice for daily meditation practice
- Meditation 101: Equanimity meditation
- Meditation 101: Meditating on the breath
- Meditation 101: Meditation on the mind like the sky
- Meditation 101: Types of meditation
- Meditation and hindrances
- Meditation auf Buddha Amitabha
- Meditation for parents grieving the loss of a child
- Meditation in the Tibetan tradition
- Meditation on antidotes to anger
- Meditation on antidotes to arrogance
- Meditation on antidotes to attachment
- Meditation on antidotes to jealousy
- Meditation on Arya Tara
- Meditation on bones
- Meditation on compassion
- Meditation on compassion
- Meditation on Compassion
- Meditation on compassion and ethical living
- Meditation on compassion and personal distress
- Meditation on compassion and personal distress
- Meditation on compassion as the antidote to the critical, judgmental mind
- Meditation on compassion for friends, strangers, and enemies
- Meditation on compassion for our enemies
- Meditation on compassion in action
- Meditation on compassionate inspiration
- Meditation on competition and cooperation
- Meditation on consistency in compassion
- Meditation on coping with fear and anxiety
- Meditation on cultivating a compassionate attitude
- Meditation on cultivating the four immeasurable thoughts
- Meditation on death
- Meditation on developing generosity
- Meditation on disturbing emotions
- Meditation on empathic distress
- Meditation on emptiness
- Meditation on equanimity
- Meditation on equanimity and compassion
- Meditation on establishing a daily practice
- Meditation on fear of compassion
- Meditation on five aspects of impermanence
- Meditation on forgiveness
- Meditation on forgiving
- Meditation on giving positive feedback and praise
- Meditation on giving your body away
- Meditation on how compassion changes us
- Meditation on loving-kindness
- Meditation on loving-kindness
- Meditation on metta and safety
- Meditation on mind as the source of happiness and pain
- Meditation on mind is the source of happiness and pain
- Meditation on overcoming attachment to reputation
- Meditation on overcoming partiality
- Meditation on perceived threats and needs
- Meditation on precious human life
- Meditation on replacing judgement with compassion
- Meditation on responding with compassion
- Meditation on self-forgiveness
- Meditation on small acts of compassion can have big results
- Meditation on soothing rhythm breathing
- Meditation on taking and giving
- Meditation on the Buddha
- Meditation on the Buddha in Spanish
- Meditation on the clear appearance of Manjushri
- Meditation on the disadvantages of attachment
- Meditation on the eight worldly concerns
- Meditation on the four attributes of true duhkha
- Meditation on the four immeasurables
- Meditation on the four kinds of happiness
- Meditation on the fourth attribute of true duhkha
- Meditation on the kindness of others
- Meditation on the kindness of others
- Meditation on the six factors that cause afflictions to arise
- Meditation on the six sufferings of samsara
- Meditation on the third attribute of true duhkha
- Meditation on three kinds of faith
- Meditation on trusting others
- Meditation on unbiased compassion
- Meditation on uncomfortable truths
- Meditation on ways to understand impermanence
- Meditation on working with an unhelpful friend
- Meditation on working with anger
- Meditation on working with anger and developing compassion
- Meditation on working with disturbing emotions
- Meditation on working with fear and anger
- Meditation on working with prejudice
- Meditation outline: Anger
- Meditation outline: Attachment
- Meditation to raise consciousness for a healthy relationship with nature
- Meditation, misconceptions, and the four seals
- Meditations on equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Meditations on kindness, gratitude and love
- Meditations on the lamrim
- Meeting Manjushri
- Meeting Vajrasattva
- Mental factors and states of consciousness
- Methods to cultivate compassion
- Methods to develop kindness
- Metta (loving-kindness) meditation
- Mid-retreat discussion
- Mind is the source
- Mind is the source of happiness and suffering
- Mindfulness and compassion
- Mindfulness and introspective awareness
- Mindfulness and introspective awareness
- Mindfulness and lamrim meditation
- Mindfulness and sensual desire
- Mindfulness of feelings
- Mindfulness of the body
- Mindfulness of the body
- Mindfulness of the body and feelings
- Mindfulness of the body—two meditations
- Mindfulness of the divine body and correct view
- Mindfulness of the lama and compassion
- Mindfulness of the mind and phenomena
- Mindfulness of the mind and phenomena
- Miserliness, attachment and doubt
- Monastic mind motivation prayer
- More advice for beginner meditators
- More on the Amitabha Buddha practice
- More psychology of the Tara sadhana
- More refuge meditation topics
- More thoughts on ethical conduct in the workplace
- Morning prayers
- Mother sentient beings
- Motivation and karma
- Motivation and meditation
- Motivation and our dignity
- Motivation for Chenrezig retreat
- Motivation for practicing Dharma
- Motivation for taking the eight Mahayana precepts
- Motivation for the Manjushri retreat
- Motivation for the retreat
- Motivation for the retreat
- Mutual dependence
- Mutual dependence in generosity
- Negating inherent existence
- Noble eightfold path and the four noble truths
- Objects of refuge
- Obstacles to generosity
- Offering the Mandala
- Offering the universe
- Oh Tara, protect us
- On vacation with Vajrasattva
- Once you start, never stop
- Our craving for feelings and contact
- Our motivation for practice
- Our real enemy
- Our two-year-old mind
- Overcoming hindrances to concentration
- Overcoming ignorance
- Overcoming ill will
- Overcoming obstacles to kindness
- Overcoming self-centeredness
- Overcoming the distortions of the mind
- Overcoming three kinds of doubt
- Overview of the Amitabha Buddha sadhana
- Overview of the Buddhist path
- Pacifying the demon of doubt
- Panic fear, wisdom fear, and the adrenaline rush
- Parting from the Four Attachments
- Parting from the Four Clingings
- Parting from the four clingings
- Path of purification: Daily practice
- Path of purification: Vajrasattva practice
- Peeling away the view of permanence
- Physical prison versus samsaric prison
- Pleasant and unpleasant feelings
- Power of regret: Identifying the causes
- Power of regret: Understanding karma
- Power of remedial action: Methods
- Power of remedial action: The antidote
- Power of resolve: Abandoning non-virtue
- Power of resolve: Becoming Vajrasattva
- Power of resolve: Rooted in regret
- Practices before serenity meditation
- Practicing celibacy
- Practicing Dharma in daily life
- Practicing enjoyment
- Practicing fortitude in daily life
- Practicing in a group retreat
- Practicing mindfulness of feelings
- Practicing rejoicing
- Practicing the Dharma
- Praise and criticism
- Praise of the Teacher, the Buddha, Through His 12 Deeds
- Praise to Weituo Pusa chant
- Praising bodhicitta
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 1-5
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 14-21
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 22-31
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 5-8
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 9-13
- Prayer to be Reborn in the Land of Bliss
- Prayers for Asian Tsunami victims
- Precepts and distorted views
- Preciousness of the opportunity for retreat
- Preliminary practice (ngöndro) overview
- Preparatory practices for establishing mindfulness
- Preparing for tantra
- Preparing for Vajrasattva retreat
- Preparing the mind for practice
- Prerequisites for serenity
- Prostrations to the 35 Buddhas
- Prostrations to the 35 Buddhas Practice
- Protected and Remembered by All Buddhas: The Buddha Speaks of Amitābha Sūtra
- Psychology of the Tara sadhana
- Purification and emptiness
- Purification and merit
- Purification and non-negotiables
- Purification and visualization
- Purification meditation
- Purification, emptiness, and dependent arising
- Purification, karma, and ethical conduct
- Purification: The four opponent powers
- Purification: What it is, why we need it and how to do it
- Purifying harsh speech and idle talk
- Purifying heavy karma
- Purifying interferences
- Purifying lying and divisive speech
- Purifying non-virtue: Coveting
- Purifying non-virtue: Karmic results
- Purifying non-virtue: Killing and stealing
- Purifying non-virtue: Malice
- Purifying non-virtue: Wrong views
- Purifying non-virtues of mind
- Purifying our negativities
- Purifying through Vajrasattva
- Purpose of practice
- Purpose of request to Chenrezig
- Purpose of the visualization
- Purpose of thought training
- Qualities of concentration
- Qualities of the three jewels
- Questioning our perceptions
- Questions about initiation and meditation
- Questions and answers on meditation
- Questions and answers on the establishments of mindfulness
- Questions on Vajrasattva purification
- Quieting the mind after the news
- Quiz 1: Four establishments of mindfulness
- Quiz 2: Four establishments of mindfulness
- Quiz: Shantideva’s establishments of mindfulness
- Reasonable self-evaluation
- Receiving an initiation
- Receiving praise: The bodhisattva vows
- Recovering after Hurricane Wilma
- Reducing arrogance, cultivating humility
- Reflecting on dukkha to fuel renunciation
- Refuge advice
- Refuge and Dedication practice
- Refuge and the five lay precepts
- Refuge meditation topics
- Refuge Ngondro Retreat instructions
- Refuge ngondro retreat: Questions and answers
- Refuge, bodhicitta, the four noble truths
- Rejoicing and dedicating
- Rejoicing at conclusion of retreat
- Rejoicing brings joy
- Rejoicing in retreat
- Rejoicing in the happiness of others
- Rejoicing in the Tara retreat
- Relating to and visualizing compassion
- Relating to the Buddha of wisdom
- Remembering refuge and bodhicitta
- Remembering to take the medicine
- Renouncing dukkha
- Repentance chant
- Resistance to meditation on emptiness
- Responding to pleasant feelings
- Restlessness and regret
- Restlessness, regret, and doubt
- Results of anger
- Retreat discussion
- Retreat motivation
- Retreat questions and advice
- Retreat questions and discussion
- Review: Establishments of mindfulness in Shantideva
- Review: Meditating on the body
- Review: Meditating on the mind
- Review: Mindfulness and wisdom
- Review: Mindfulness of feelings and mind
- Review: Mindfulness of the body
- Review: Right understanding of feelings
- Reviewing behavior patterns
- Right intention in starting retreat
- Sadhana visualization
- Sangha refuge
- Seasons change
- Seeing through fears
- Selected dedication verses
- Self-centeredness and compassion
- Self-generation and emptiness
- Selflessness of mind and phenomena
- Sensual desire and malice
- Sensual desires
- Setting up a daily practice
- Setting up a meditation session
- Seven-limb Prayer
- Seven-limb prayer and mandala offering
- Shantideva on equalizing self and others
- Sharing challenges of practice
- Six conditions for retreat
- Six conditions, five faults, eight antidotes
- Six preparatory practices for meditation
- Six types of breathing meditation
- Sorrow and Hope
- Speaking about silence
- Special attributes of the Three Jewels
- Spiritual washing machine
- Stages of sustained attention
- Staving off the flood
- Stilling the critical mind
- Stories about Lama Yeshe
- Stress and expectations
- Stressed out
- Structuring a meditation session
- Structuring the meditation session
- Subtle mind and wind in tantra
- Symbolism and visualization
- Taking and giving: instruction and guided meditation
- Taking down offerings
- Taking refuge
- Taking refuge from the heart
- Taking refuge in the guru
- Taking retreat into daily life
- Taking the practice home
- Taming the monkey mind
- Tantra initiations, empowerment
- Tantra practices
- Tantric initiation question
- Tara as resultant refuge
- Tara is not inherently existent
- Tara’s qualities
- Tara’s wisdom
- Teachings on the Chenrezig practice
- The 100-syllable mantra
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
- The antidotes to fear
- The benefits of and conditions for developing serenity
- The benefits of cherishing others
- The benefits of refuge and precepts
- The Bodhisattva’s Jewel Mala
- The Buddha is free from fear
- The Buddha Refuge Jewel
- The Buddha’s five recollections
- The carnivorous demon of doubt
- The chain of miserliness
- The Chenrezig practice
- The context for developing concentration
- The conventional existence of Tara
- The courage to be happy
- The dangers of absolutism and nihilism
- The dukkha of pain and change
- The dukkha of pervasive conditioning
- The eight dangers
- The eight Mahayana precepts
- The eight Mahayana precepts ceremony
- The elephant of ignorance
- The emptiness of identities and nonvirtue
- The empty nature of grief
- The extensive offering practice
- The far-reaching attitude of equanimity
- The fire of anger
- The Five Dhyani Buddhas
- The five faults and eight antidotes
- The five faults and eight antidotes
- The flood of attachment
- The food offering
- The Foundation of All Good Qualities
- The four foundations of mindfulness
- The four immeasurables
- The four immeasurables in daily life
- The four immeasurables in meditation and daily life
- The four maras
- The four objects of mindfulness
- The four opponent powers
- The four opponent powers
- The four opponent powers for purification
- The four opponent powers in daily life
- The four opponent powers: Part 1
- The four opponent powers: Part 2
- The four purities and four classes of tantra
- The general characteristics of karma
- The Gift of Offering Service
- The Green Tara practice
- The heart of generosity
- The Heart of Wisdom Sutra
- The hindrances: Desire and malice
- The hindrances: Doubt
- The hindrances: Dullness and restlessness
- The joy of retreat
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others: Teaching and guided meditation
- The King of Prayers
- The King of Prayers: Verses 1-28
- The King of Prayers: Verses 29-63
- The lion of pride
- The mantra and purifying karma
- The mark of a successful life
- The meaning of compassion
- The meaning of karma
- The meaning of the Tara mantras
- The Medicine Buddha request prayers
- The Medicine Buddha sadhana
- The Medicine Buddha’s unshakeable resolves, continued
- The mind and body in meditation
- The mindfulness craze
- The motivation for doing retreat
- The nine mental abidings
- The objects of mindfulness and the misconceptions to overcome
- The perfection of wisdom
- The pitfalls of perfectionism
- The power of determination
- The power of determination
- The power of Nyung Ne with questions and answers
- The power of regret
- The power of regret: Our motivations
- The power of rejoicing
- The power of reliance
- The power of reliance: Bodhicitta
- The power of reliance: Refuge
- The power of remedial action
- The power of restoring the relationship
- The practice of confession
- The practice of mindfulness
- The preliminary practice of taking refuge
- The prerequisites for concentration
- The privilege of making offerings
- The psychological mechanism of making request prayers
- The purpose of a silent retreat
- The purpose of dedicating merit
- The purpose of mandala offerings
- The purpose of rituals and chanting
- The purpose of the Manjushri practice
- The rarity of retreat
- The removal of distracting thoughts
- The right kind of mindfulness
- The robbers of wrong views
- The root causes of grief
- The root of cyclic existence
- The selflessness of feelings
- The selflessness of persons
- The seven-limb prayer
- The snake of jealousy
- The story of Kwan Yin
- The Sutra of the Three Heaps
- The symbolism of Medicine Buddha
- The Tara practice
- The Ten Great Vows by Vasubandhu
- The ten non-virtuous actions
- The ten nonvirtues
- The thieves of wrong views
- The thieves of wrong views
- The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
- The times they are a-changing
- The two manners of meditation
- The two truths
- The Vajrasattva ngondro
- The wisdom of composition
- Things change
- Things exist dependently
- Things keep changing
- Thinking about emptiness
- Thought training
- Three kinds of compassion
- Three kinds of dukkha and causes
- Three refuges chant
- Three types of dukkha
- Three types of dukkha
- Three ways to meditate on the mind
- Tobacco, firearms and food
- Transforming the mind
- Transforming unpleasant feelings
- Transition to daily life following retreat
- Transitioning out of retreat
- Twenty-Verse Prayer from Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland”
- Types of arrogance and ignorance
- Ultimate goal of developing concentration
- Understanding Buddhist concepts
- Unique elements of Vajrayana
- Unique features of tantra
- Unique features to tantra
- Unloading the garbage mind
- Unrealistic fear
- Untainted meditation
- Untimely death
- Using wisdom to guide our lives
- Vajrasattva guided meditation
- Vajrasattva meditation and recitation
- Vajrasattva practice and the four opponent powers
- Vajrasattva practice: Overview and the power of reliance
- Vajrasattva practice: The power of regret
- Vajrasattva practice: The powers of remedial action and determination
- Vajrasattva purification practice
- Vajrasattva reflections
- Vajrasattva sadhana
- Vajrayana foundation
- Varieties of attachment
- Various mantras
- Verses after lunch
- Verses before meals
- Verses for various occasions
- Verses of thought training
- Virtuous relaxation
- Visualization
- Visualization and mantra recitation
- Visualization and mantra recitation
- Visualization in deity practice
- Visualization meditation
- Visualization, refuge and bodhicitta
- Visualizing sentient beings
- Visualizing the Buddha
- Visualizing the Medicine Buddha
- Visualizing the merit field
- Visualizing the object of meditation
- Visualizing the Three Jewels
- Visualizing Vajrasattva
- Walking meditation and its benefits
- Walking meditation techniques
- Watching the news as Dharma practice
- Water bowl offering
- What are your non-negotiables?
- What emptiness is
- What is dhih?
- What is important at the time of death
- What is karma?
- What is meditation?
- What is retreat?
- What is retreat?
- What is retreat?
- What is samsara and nirvana?
- What it means to do retreat
- What it means to take refuge
- What to do after retreat
- What we are giving up
- When and why the mandala is offered
- Where is attachment?
- Where is the self?
- White Tara at your heart
- White Tara deity sadhana with guided meditation
- White Tara purifying negativities
- Who Is Amitabha really?
- Who is Amitabha?
- Who is Tara?
- Who is Tara?
- Who is the “I” that is anxious?
- Who is White Tara?
- Why Buddha is a reliable refuge
- Why do we lie?
- Why do we suffer?
- Why mindfulness of phenomena leads to true paths
- Wisdom, renunciation, and attachment
- Working on our attachments
- Working through cause and effect
- Working with emotions in meditation
- Working with pain
- Working with sexual energy
- Working with the angry mind
- Working with the five hindrances
- Working with the mind in retreat
- Working with the Tara sadhana
Mind and Awareness
- Afflictive doubts, afflictive views
- Analysis of sense perception versus thought
- Analyzing grudge holding
- Apperceptive direct perceiver
- Appreciation and mindfulness
- Attachment
- Attention and aspiration
- Buddhist psychology: Mind and mental factors
- Classification of objects
- Complacency, agitation
- Concealment, lethargy, laziness
- Concentration and wisdom
- Conscientiousness
- Correct assumer
- Creating the causes of happiness
- Direct perceivers: sense and mental
- Discrimination, intention and contact
- Divisions of selfless: Abstract composites
- Divisions of selfless: Consciousness
- Divisions of selfless: Forms
- Divisions of selfless: Phenomena
- Doubt
- Examining conceptual mind and needs
- Facsimile direct perceiver and inferential cognizers
- Facsimiles of direct perceivers
- Faith or confidence
- Feelings
- Holding wrong ethics, wrong views as supreme
- How afflictions manifest
- How the afflictions harm us
- Identifying types of objects based on cognition
- Inattentive perceivers
- Inattentive perceptions, doubt, and wrong consciousnesses
- Inferential cognizers and obscured phenomena
- Integrity and consideration for others
- Introduction to direct perceivers
- Introduction to mind and mental factors
- Jigta
- Joyous effort and pliancy
- Know your mind: A general explanation of afflictions
- Know your mind: Direct perceivers and inferential cognizers
- Know your mind: Introduction to minds and mental factors
- Know your mind: Object-ascertaining and virtuous mental factors
- Know your mind: Omnipresent mental factors
- Know your mind: Perception and conception
- Know your mind: Seven types of mind and awareness
- Know your mind: Six root afflictions
- Know your mind: The twenty auxiliary afflictions
- Know your mind: Virtuous mental factors
- Know your mind: What is the mind?
- Lack of faith, forgetfulness, non-introspective alertness
- Mapping the Buddhist path onto combating the afflictions
- Non-attachment
- Non-attachment and non-hatred
- Non-harmfulness and equanimity
- Non-hatred and non-bewilderment
- Object ascertaining mental factors
- Object possessors and seven types of cognizers
- Objects of attachment and antidotes
- Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 1
- Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 2
- Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 3
- Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 4
- Quiz: Seven types of cognizers
- Quotes about the afflictions
- Reflections on mind training
- Seven kinds of awareness
- Subsequent cognizers
- Subsequent cognizers
- Taking refuge
- Ten root afflictions
- The omnipresent mental factors
- The root affliction of anger
- The root affliction of attachment
- The secondary afflictions
- The virtuous mental factors
- Three beneficial mental factors
- Twenty secondary afflictions
- Virtuous mental factors #2-6
- Virtuous mental factors #7-11
- Virtuous mental factors and root afflictions
- What is the mind?
- Wrath, vengeance, spite, jealousy
- Wrong consciousness
- Yogic direct perceiver
Mind and Mental Factors
- Afflictive doubts, afflictive views
- Analyzing grudge holding
- Appreciation and mindfulness
- Attachment
- Attention and aspiration
- Buddhist psychology: Mind and mental factors
- Complacency, agitation
- Concealment, lethargy, laziness
- Concentration and wisdom
- Conscientiousness
- Creating the causes of happiness
- Discrimination, intention and contact
- Faith or confidence
- Feelings
- Holding wrong ethics, wrong views as supreme
- How afflictions manifest
- How the afflictions harm us
- Integrity and consideration for others
- Introduction to mind and mental factors
- Jigta
- Joyous effort and pliancy
- Know your mind: A general explanation of afflictions
- Know your mind: Introduction to minds and mental factors
- Know your mind: Object-ascertaining and virtuous mental factors
- Know your mind: Omnipresent mental factors
- Know your mind: Six root afflictions
- Know your mind: The twenty auxiliary afflictions
- Know your mind: Virtuous mental factors
- Lack of faith, forgetfulness, non-introspective alertness
- Mapping the Buddhist path onto combating the afflictions
- Non-attachment
- Non-attachment and non-hatred
- Non-harmfulness and equanimity
- Non-hatred and non-bewilderment
- Object ascertaining mental factors
- Objects of attachment and antidotes
- Quotes about the afflictions
- Reflections on mind training
- Ten root afflictions
- The omnipresent mental factors
- The root affliction of anger
- The root affliction of attachment
- The secondary afflictions
- The virtuous mental factors
- Three beneficial mental factors
- Twenty secondary afflictions
- Virtuous mental factors #2-6
- Virtuous mental factors #7-11
- Virtuous mental factors and root afflictions
- Wrath, vengeance, spite, jealousy
Monastic Life
- “Connected Discourses with Kassapa”
- “I had to start being more consistent!”
- “I will do it”
- “She loved being a bhikshuni”: Spreading full ordination for women
- “The Fruits of the Homeless Life”
- “The Fruits of the Homeless Life”
- A dialogue about ordination
- A history of monastic lineages
- A life in the Dharma
- A means to achieve bhiksuni ordination
- A mirror for our spiritual journey
- A monastic community
- A monastic’s commitments & the benefits of monasteries
- A monastic’s mind
- A new possibility
- A nun’s lifestyle
- A seminar to be organised by the Department of Religion and Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration
- A Tibetan Buddhist nun blazes a trail for other women to follow
- Adapting monastic precepts to culture
- Adjusting to monastic life
- Advantages of precepts
- Advice for someone considering ordination
- Advice from the preceptor
- Advice from the preceptor
- Advice on preparing for ordination
- After ordination
- After the Buddha awakened
- Am I good enough?
- An American Buddhist abbess
- An example of integrity
- An interview with a newly ordained monastic
- Anger and selflessness
- Approaching ordination
- Attachment makes the world go ’round
- Attributes of a monastic life
- Becoming a bhikshuni
- Becoming a nun
- Becoming a Western Buddhist nun
- Behind the scenes with Venerable Thubten Chodron
- Being easy to speak to
- Being mindful of our precepts and values
- Being mindful of the kindness of others
- Benefiting the world through the Dharma
- Benefits of ordination
- Bhikkhuni education today
- Bhikkhuni pārājika 1
- Bhikkhunīs in Theravāda
- Bhikshuni ordination
- Bhikshuni ordination in the Tibetan tradition
- Bhikshuni vinaya and ordination lineages
- Bhikshunis in Mulasarvastivada vinaya tradition?
- Bhikshunis propagate the Dharma
- Brief history of bhiksunis
- Bringing the kathina ceremony to the West
- British woman Palmo came to Hong Kong to receive the precepts
- Buddhism and culture
- Buddhist education for nuns in Western countries
- Buddhist monastics in the Inland Northwest
- Buddhist practice and community life
- Buddhist practice in the West
- Buddhist women in the West
- Building community the monastic way
- Building sangha and community
- Changes in relationships and social life
- Chinese bhikshuni ordination
- Chinese bhikshunis visit Sravasti Abbey
- Clarifying the status of the “Geshe-ma”
- Colors of the Dharma
- Comments and reflections on the Vinaya Training Course 2024
- Commitment, authority and autonomy
- Community and the six harmonies
- Community life and causality
- Community life and monastic ordination
- Comrades in alms
- Conference on gelong-ma ordination
- Confession prayer part 3
- Congratulations to the first geshemas!
- Contentment
- Core elements of a monastic lifestyle
- Cultivating compassion
- Cultivating self-acceptance
- Cutting bonds and going forth
- Dark matter
- Deciding to become a monastic
- Developing and sustaining bodhi resolve
- Development of the first sangha
- Development of the sangha
- Development of the traditions
- Dismantling identities
- Disrespecting parents, spiritual mentors, & spiritual friends
- Doing long retreat
- Don’t make me swarm!
- Donning the robes
- Elements of the monastic lifestyle
- Entire path to enlightenment
- Equal opportunity for nuns
- Essentials of monastic life
- Establishing a direction for reviving bhikshuni ordination
- Establishing precepts
- Establishing the sangha in the West
- Ethical conduct
- Ethical conduct
- Ethical conduct on the path
- Ethics and becoming a monastic
- Evolution of the monastic community
- Explanation of the general confession
- Exploring monastic life Q&A
- Exploring our motivation for ordination
- Faith and virtue
- Family life
- For the enlightenment of all
- Founding donor’s day
- Freedom and suffering
- From goatherd to geshe
- Full ordination for women
- Gender equality/inequality in Buddhism
- Geshemas and bhikshuni ordination
- Giving up married life
- Giving up the ping-pong of afflictions
- Going forth
- Gradual path to enlightenment
- Great vehicle driver’s ed
- Guarding integrity and aspiration
- Guarding integrity and aspiration
- Guided by bodhicitta to create an energy field for common good
- Higher training in ethical discipline
- Historical evolution of the sangha
- History of the eight Mahayana precepts
- History of the sangha
- Home
- Honesty and trust
- How a monastic interacts with others
- How do friends and family fit into monastic life?
- How do we know when we’re ready to ordain?
- How monastics differ from laypeople
- How precepts promote harmony in the sangha
- How precepts transform society
- How precious is monastic community
- How to approach Dharma practice
- How to be a good Dharma student
- How to grow a monastic
- How to stay ordained
- Humility, transparency, and self-acceptance
- Imbued with the Buddhist worldview
- Importance of precepts
- Inspiration to ordain
- International full ordination ceremony in Bodh Gaya
- Interview by Buddhist Television Network
- Interview with Interfaith Voices
- Interview with Shide Nunnery
- Interview with Tibetan Center Hamburg Magazine
- Introducing Exploring Monastic Life 2008
- Joyfully swimming upstream
- Joys and challenges of religious life
- Kassapa Discourses: Admonishment
- Kassapa Discourses: Guarding the mind
- Kathina celebration
- Kathina celebration 2018
- Kaṭhina ceremony 2015
- Keeping ethical conduct
- Keeping the mind on spiritual practice
- Leaving family and renouncing worldly ties
- Letter to those considering monastic ordination
- Letting go of “me,” “I,” and “mine”
- Letting go of clinging to identities
- Letting go of identities
- Life as a Western Buddhist nun
- Life as Buddhist nun in the West
- Life of the Buddha
- Livelihood for monastics
- Living a happy monastic life
- Living as a Western monastic
- Living in a monastic environment
- Living in community as Dharma practice
- Living in monastic community
- Living in novice precepts
- Living in solitude and living in community
- Living in the precepts
- Living joyfully together
- Living Vinaya in the United States
- Making progress towards the development of bhikshunis and geshemas
- Mindfulness and checking awareness
- Minor hindrances to ordination
- Modern day precepts
- Monasteries and monastic training
- Monasteries as the conscience of society
- Monastic aspiration
- Monastic health
- Monastic life
- Monastic life and mind
- Monastic life changes: Courage
- Monastic life changes: Relationships
- Monastic life in America
- Monastic Mind Motivation commentary
- Monastic practices
- Monastic precepts
- Monastic precepts and community life
- Monasticism in the West
- Monasticism meeting modernity
- Monastics go green
- Monk chat: Questions about monastic and community life
- Motivation and community
- Motivation in a monastic environment
- Motivational Monday: An interview with Venerable Chodron
- Multi-tradition ordination (long version)
- Multi-tradition ordination (short version)
- No small thing: Encouragement from China
- Non-negotiables in Dharma practice
- On monastic life
- Ordination for women across traditions part 1
- Ordination for women across traditions part 2
- Ordination is a wonderous deed
- Ordination lineages
- Ordination of buddhist nuns
- Ordination of nuns by monks
- Ordination: Sakyadhita’s heritage from the Buddha
- Origin of the Mahayana sutras
- Our top three priorities
- Perfection of concentration
- Planning for ordination
- Posadha at Sravasti Abbey
- Pratimoksa precepts
- Precepts and the afflictions
- Precepts and their background
- Precepts and vows
- Precepts free the mind
- Present status of bhikshuni ordination
- Presenting the first Global Awards for Outstanding Contributions of Commended Bhikshunis
- Principles to be respected
- Pure teaching of Dharma
- Purpose of a monastery
- Purpose of precepts
- Pursuing true happiness
- Q & A regarding ordination
- Qualifications for ordination
- Qualities of a monastic
- Qualities of the monastic mind
- Question and answer session with nuns in Indonesia
- Questions and answers with monastics
- Questions for group discussions
- Ratthapala’s discourse with his family and the king
- Reasons for monastic precepts
- Reducing attachment, cultivating confidence
- Reflections on the first Exploring Monastic Life, 2005
- Refuge and precepts ceremony
- Regarding the bhikshuni order in Tibetan Buddhism
- Reimagining Buddhist ethics in the world
- Reinforcing ordination in daily life
- Rejoicing in living at Sravasti Abbey
- Relating to the material world
- Relevance of Vinaya in modern circumstances
- Renouncing worldly life
- Renunciation and attachment to comfort
- Renunciation and simplicity
- Research regarding the lineage of bhikshuni ordination
- Researching the bhikshuni lineage
- Resisting social pressure
- Right livelihood for the sangha in the 21st century
- Robes of liberation
- Sakyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha
- Samsaric pleasures and developing concentration
- Sangha activities as a community
- Sangha and community living
- Sangha in the West
- Seeing reality as it is
- Seeking liberation
- Self-confidence across monastic cultures
- Seniority in the sangha
- Sexuality and celibacy
- Siksamana and bhikshuni ordinations
- Simplicity
- Sincerely going forth
- Six harmonies in a sangha community
- Six harmonies of the sangha
- Skillfully connecting with others
- So much wisdom!
- Some thoughts after ordination
- Sowing the seeds of Dharma in the Wild West
- Space from sensual pleasures
- Spiritual liberation
- Sravasti Abbey and social engagement
- Sravasti Abbey hosts “Living Vinaya in the West”
- Sravasti Abbey joins in the 2023 International Bhikshuni Varsa at Sravasti, India
- Sravasti Abbey values
- Sravasti Abbey: Tradition and innovation
- Sravasti Abbey’s first kathina ceremony
- Suggesting a collaboration for the purpose of reaching consensus towards bhikshuni ordination
- Supporting monastics in the West
- Sustaining our monastic life
- Tailoring teachings to meet different needs
- Taking and holding the precepts
- Taking ethical restraints
- Taking precepts
- Taking refuge
- Taming the mind
- Tantra in practice
- Ten reasons for monastic precepts
- That was then, this is now
- The bhikshuni sangha in the West and its future
- The “Brahmajala Sutta” and monastic conduct
- The “Brahmajala Sutta” and monastic precepts
- The “Ratnapala Sutta”
- The “Ratthapala Sutta”
- The 18th Sakyadhita conference
- The 22nd Annual Western Buddhist Monastic Gathering
- The 24th Annual Western Buddhist Monastic Gathering
- The banner of the Dharma
- The benefits of community life
- The benefits of establishing precepts
- The benefits of living in a monastic community
- The benefits of living in community
- The benefits of precepts
- The Bhikshuni Order in Theravada Sri Lanka
- The birth of Sakyadhita
- The border between liberation and cyclic existence
- The Buddha and monasticism
- The Buddha’s advice to laypeople
- The Buddha’s awakening
- The Buddha’s homeless life
- The Buddha’s life
- The Buddha’s life and teaching
- The Buddha’s life as an example
- The Buddha’s life story
- The Buddha’s life story part 1
- The Buddha’s life story part 2
- The Buddha’s life: The four sights
- The Buddha’s enlightenment
- The Buddha’s life
- The call of monasticism
- The challenge of the future
- The Challenges and Joys of Monastic Life
- The Committee of Western Bhikshunis
- The conditions for ordination
- The controversy on bhikkhunī ordination
- The development of Tantra in Buddhism
- The development of the Mahayana tradition
- The eight Mahayana precepts
- The elements of monastic life
- The evolution of the Dharma and the vinaya
- The first monastic precept
- The first Western bhikshuni in the Tibetan tradition
- The five points
- The five precepts
- The foundation of monastic life
- The four messengers
- The fruits of exploring monastic life
- The future is up to us
- The Greater Discourse on the “Lion’s Roar Sutta”
- The Greater Discourse on the “Simile of the Heartwood”
- The hindrances to ordaining
- The householder’s life
- The importance of Buddhist monasticism in the West
- The importance of daily practice
- The importance of monastic training
- The importance of motivation for ordaining
- The joy of monastic discipline
- The legality of bhikkhunī ordination
- The life of the Buddha
- The life of Venerable Sek Fatt Kuan: compassion in action
- The life story of the Buddha
- The meaning of ordination
- The monastic preceptor
- The mutual relationship of monastics and lay practitioners
- The noble search
- The past and future of the bhikshuni sangha in the West
- The power of an idea
- The practice of appreciating others
- The practice of generosity
- The precepts in modern culture
- The purpose of developing concentration
- The purpose of monastic life
- The purpose of monastic precepts
- The purpose of precepts
- The purpose of Sravasti Abbey
- The purpose of the EML program
- The revival of bhikkhunī ordination in the Theravāda tradition
- The rise of women in Buddhism: Has the ice been broken?
- The role of a monastic
- The sense of “I” is the source of all problems
- The seven ways to end disputes
- The significance of the kathina ceremony
- The situation of Western monastics
- The six harmonies
- The six harmonies (continued)
- The six harmonies of monastic life
- The six harmonies of the sangha
- The six harmonies of the sangha: Part 1
- The six harmonies of the sangha: Part 2
- The six harmonies: Setting the stage for living together
- The spread of Buddhism and monastic life
- The spread of the Dharma
- The ten benefits of monastic precepts
- The time has come
- The value of a sangha community
- The value of a sangha community
- The value of monastic life and communities in the 21st century
- The view of the middle way
- The wisdom of kindness
- The World Buddhist Bhikshuni Association is established in Taiwan
- Tibetan Buddhism east and west
- Time well spent
- Traditions of Buddhism
- Training the mind in contentment
- Transgressing precepts of individual liberation
- Transmitting the lamp of the Dharma
- Turning the wheel of Dharma
- Uncovering unrealistic expectations
- Unravelling our hallucinations
- Value of a supportive community for monastic training
- Varṣa skandhaka
- Vinaya is the best retreat manual
- Vinaya of the seven recent Buddhas
- Vinaya traditions for bhikshuni ordination
- Visualizations and Brahma’s request
- Volunteering to take monastic vows
- Western Buddhist nuns
- Western Buddhist nuns in the Tibetan tradition
- Western monastic life
- Western monasticism
- Western monastics
- What changes when you become a monastic
- What if the Buddha were a lay woman?
- What the Buddha faced in his life
- Whatever happened to the monastic Sangha?
- Where is your sky?
- Why are we not happy?
- Why I became a Buddhist nun
- Why monastics matter in the modern world
- Why ordain young?
- Why we need monasticism
- Windows of opportunity
- Women in Buddhism
- Women in Buddhism
- Women in Buddhism: Levels of ordination
- Women in the sangha
- Women in Western Buddhism
- Women working together
- Women—part of the basis
- Words of advice
- Working with afflictions
- Working with expectations
- Working with sexual attachment
- Working with the mind in a structured way
- You’re becoming a what?
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland
- “Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness”: Talk and book launch
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questions 1-3
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questions 4-7
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questions 8-12
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 8 questions 1-4
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 8 questions 5-9
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 2 questions 10-18
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 2 questions 19-21
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 3 questions 1-3
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 3 questions 4-6
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 3 questions 7-12
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 11-14
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 15-19
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 3-4
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 5-7
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 8-10
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4-5
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 5 questions 7-12
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 6 questions 1-7
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 6 questions 8-12
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions (continued)
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions 1-7
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions 16-19
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions 19-22 and part 2, 1-9
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions 8-15
- A proper motivation
- Abandoning nonvirtue, practicing virtue
- Abandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 1
- Abandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 2
- Abandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 3
- Advice for gathering the collections of merit and wisdom
- Attachment, grasping, and substantial existence
- Boundless wisdom and compassion
- Buddhist Advice for Ruling a Kingdom
- Chapter 1: Upper rebirth and highest good
- Chapter 1: Verse 80
- Chapter 1: Verses 10-13
- Chapter 1: Verses 14-19
- Chapter 1: Verses 2-3
- Chapter 1: Verses 20-24
- Chapter 1: Verses 25-26
- Chapter 1: Verses 27-32
- Chapter 1: Verses 33-36
- Chapter 1: Verses 36-38
- Chapter 1: Verses 39-44
- Chapter 1: Verses 4-9
- Chapter 1: Verses 45-48
- Chapter 1: Verses 49-56
- Chapter 1: Verses 57-62
- Chapter 1: Verses 63-68
- Chapter 1: Verses 69-75
- Chapter 1: Verses 76-80
- Chapter 1: Verses 81-82
- Chapter 1: Verses 82-86
- Chapter 1: Verses 86-92
- Chapter 1: Verses 93-100
- Chapter 2: Verses 101-108
- Chapter 2: Verses 109-114
- Chapter 2: Verses 115-126
- Chapter 2: Verses 124-136
- Chapter 2: Verses 137-143
- Chapter 2: Verses 144-158
- Chapter 2: Verses 158-171
- Chapter 2: Verses 171-176
- Chapter 2: Verses 177-189
- Chapter 2: Verses 190-200
- Chapter 3: Verses 201-213
- Chapter 3: Verses 212-214
- Chapter 3: Verses 214-230
- Chapter 3: Verses 215-223
- Chapter 3: Verses 231-245
- Chapter 3: Verses 246-258
- Chapter 3: Verses 259-267
- Chapter 3: Verses 268-271
- Chapter 3: Verses 272-280
- Chapter 3: Verses 281-287
- Chapter 3: Verses 287-293
- Chapter 3: Verses 292-300
- Chapter 4 review: Verses 365-398
- Chapter 4: Verses 301-311
- Chapter 4: Verses 311-322
- Chapter 4: Verses 322-328
- Chapter 4: Verses 327-339
- Chapter 4: Verses 339-348
- Chapter 4: Verses 349-355
- Chapter 4: Verses 356-363
- Chapter 4: Verses 364-369
- Chapter 4: Verses 370-381
- Chapter 4: Verses 382-391
- Chapter 4: Verses 392-400
- Chapter 5: Verse 440
- Chapter 5: Verses 401-405
- Chapter 5: Verses 405-412
- Chapter 5: Verses 413-423
- Chapter 5: Verses 424-433
- Chapter 5: Verses 434-437
- Chapter 5: Verses 438-439
- Chapter 5: Verses 441-446
- Chapter 5: Verses 447-452
- Chapter 5: Verses 453-458
- Chapter 5: Verses 459-460
- Chapter 5: Verses 461-462
- Chapter 5: Verses 463-466
- Chapter 5: Verses 466-467
- Chapter 5: Verses 468-470
- Chapter 5: Verses 471-475
- Chapter 5: Verses 476-479
- Chapter 5: Verses 477-484
- Chapter 5: Verses 484-489
- Chapter 5: Verses 488-491
- Chapter 5: Verses 491-492
- Chapter 5: Verses 493-500
- Clarifying misunderstood teachings
- Compassion in living and dying
- Conception of “I”
- Creating the causes for happiness
- Dependent designation
- Emptiness in different tenet systems
- Emptiness of self
- Holy objects, rebirth, and compassion
- How things appear and how they exist
- Instructions for enhancing the collection of merit
- Integrating emptiness
- Introduction
- Leading with a compassionate motivation
- Letting go of identities
- Liberation and tenet schools
- Love, compassion, and wisdom
- Meditating on emptiness
- Motivation in practicing virtue
- Our spiritual goals
- Outline of Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland”
- Overview of Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland”
- Practical ethics and leadership
- Practical ethics from Nagarjuna
- Practical ethics: Part 1
- Practical ethics: Part 2
- Precious Garland review: Characteristics of karma
- Questions and answers on karma
- Quiz questions for Precious Garland: Intro to verse 24
- Quiz questions for Precious Garland: Verses 25-36
- Quiz questions Part 3 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 4 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 5 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 6 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 7 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 8 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 9 for Precious Garland
- Renunciation and compassion
- Roots of cyclic existence
- Spiritual advice on practical matters
- The 12 links of dependent arising
- The advantages of living ethically
- The Buddha and the Dharma
- The causes and effects of higher rebirth
- The causes of higher rebirth and definite goodness
- The fourth distortion
- The great aspirations of bodhisattvas
- The importance of ethical conduct
- The middle way
- The mind and renunciation
- The nature of pleasure and pain
- The person and the aggregates
- The results of negative karma
- The results of the collections of wisdom and merit
- The results of virtue and nonvirtue
- The results of virtue and nonvirtue
- The self and the aggregates
- The sixteen practices for higher rebirth
- The taking-and-giving meditation
- The truth of dukkha
- The truth of the origin of suffering
- The two collections prevent physical and mental suffering
- Three types of dependent arising and how they prove emptiness
- To be enjoyed and loved by sentient beings
- Twenty-Verse Prayer from Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland”
- Two truths
- Ultimate and conventional truths
- Understanding emptiness, attaining liberation
- Understanding emptiness: Part 1
- Understanding emptiness: Part 2
- Understanding emptiness: Part 3
- Understanding the self
- Was the Buddha an activist?
- What is a person?
- Wisdom in difficult times
On Love, Compassion, and Bodhicitta
Parting from the Four Clingings
Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats
Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe
Prison Dharma
- “Impact of Crime on Victims” class
- A bird
- A chosen life
- A Christmas gift in prison
- A close call
- A death row attorney on her work
- A family of mice
- A fight on the yard
- A final farewell
- A friend in prison
- A gift: an incarcerated person lets go of anger
- A glimpse into the ultimate
- A long-awaited vacation
- A man and a squirrel
- A new place
- A new way to see it
- A path of understanding
- A prison visit
- A prison visit following the killing of an incarcerated person
- A prison visit on “Buddha Day”
- A quilt of compassion
- A remarkable story
- A second chance for juvenile offenders
- A secret Zen master
- A simple act of kindness
- A suicide
- A test of my bodhisattva vows
- A thought …
- Adapting to changes
- Addiction
- Adjusting to change
- After release: A woman’s perspective
- All I daydream about is here right now
- An afternoon in prison
- An almost riot
- An appeal to Linda
- An eye-opener
- An orange of mindfulness
- Anger and the practice of patience
- Appreciating the Dharma
- Awareness that sets you free
- Beauty and the bugs
- Becoming humble
- Being emptiness
- Being present
- Beliefs turned on their head
- Better than a hell realm
- Big piece
- Bodhisattva vows
- Bringing Avalokiteshvara into the circle
- Bringing compassion to prison
- Buddha’s door
- Celebrating the Buddha in prison
- Celebration of Buddha’s enlightenment
- Changing
- Changing our mind
- Choice
- Choice and changing
- Choices and consequences
- Choosing friends
- Circus
- Compassion at a juvenile reformatory
- Compassion for perpetrators
- Connecting with incarcerated women in Indonesia
- Courage
- Creating an identity
- Creating problems
- Crossing to the other shore
- Cuddling up to the Dharma
- Cultivating altruistic intention
- Daishin, big mind
- Dealing with anger
- Dealing with difficult changes
- Dealing with the guards
- Dear Mom
- Dedication for a meaningful life
- Deeply committed to freedom
- Depression and Buddha nature
- Deserving love
- Developing bodhicitta
- Dharma artwork by incarcerated people
- Dharma in prison: Learning more than teaching
- Discovery
- Doing retreat in prison
- Doing Vajrasattva retreat
- Don’t weep
- Eating blame
- Explore and be brave
- Facing fear and stress in prison
- Fear and hate
- Fill yourself with good qualities
- Flow
- Forgiving and apologizing
- Friendship
- Gathas for daily life
- Generosity: The first paramita
- Getting along with others
- Getting back on track
- Gibberish
- Glad to be here
- Grape or no grape?
- Gratitude
- Gratitude for the Dharma
- Grouchy me
- Growing pains
- Growing through the Dharma
- Haiku
- Handling fear and potential violence
- Happy birthday, Mom
- Harmonizing criminal defendants’ imbalanced situations
- Having compassion for yourself
- Healing past relationships
- Heartfelt gifts
- Hermitage
- How spirituality changed my life
- Humor
- I am a Buddhist
- I would normally have been upset
- If here, why not out there?
- Ignorance of the ego
- Incarcerated people transform adversity into the path
- Inside-out practice
- Inspirations for overcoming anger
- Inspiring story
- Intoxicants
- It could be worse
- Jewels of the Dharma
- Joshua
- Joys of taking the bodhisattva vows
- Jury duty
- Just another day at work
- Just breathe
- Karma and change
- Karma ripening
- Karma, confusion and clarity
- Keeping balance
- Kindness to myself
- Kitchen Dharma
- Kwan Yin
- Leading ourselves out of addiction
- Learning from others
- Learning to find inner peace
- Let the mind see the mind
- Letting go of attachments
- Letting go of guilt and shame
- Life in the hole
- Loneliness
- Love
- Love, compassion, peace
- Making friends with ourselves
- Making life meaningful in prison
- Making mistakes
- Making the teachings personal
- Masks
- Meditation with noise
- Meeting Tara
- Mindfulness, contentment, and ABBA
- Moving from the heart
- Musings at a red light
- My prison education
- My tiger
- My time in prison
- Nelson Mandela’s advice
- New perspective
- No more labels
- No more whining
- Noble silence
- Not feeding the fire
- Offering precepts in prison
- Offering service
- On attachment
- Opening up to love
- Our circle of suffering
- Owl
- Owning up, but with hope
- Patience with the path
- Paying attention to life
- People serving time
- Personal demons
- Photos with incarcerated people
- Pink flamingos
- Poem to Mom and Dad
- Positive thinking
- Power to hope, power to heal
- Practice and our mind
- Practicing in prison
- Practicing in prison
- Practicing the six perfections
- Practising and upholding the precepts
- Prison and prayer
- Prison Dharma
- Prison labor
- Prison of desire
- Prison outreach in Mexico
- Prison pagoda of loving kindness
- Prison poetry I
- Prison poetry II
- Prison poetry III
- Prison poetry IV
- Prison revisited
- Prison volunteer workshop
- Prison work
- Prison, life, impermanence
- Prisons of the mind
- Purification
- Purifying negative karma
- Qualifications
- Reentry
- Reflection on life
- Reflections on “At Hell’s Gate”
- Reflections on anger
- Reflections on my good fortune
- Release from prison: Shock or growth?
- Remaining calm
- Reunion
- Riding the roller coaster
- Right effort, learning, and love
- Saved by the Dharma
- Scars and catharsis
- Scholarship from death row prisoners
- Searching for happiness
- Seeing Buddha nature
- Seeking liberation while in prison
- Seeking peace
- Selflessness keeps you out of SHU
- Shame
- Sharing
- Sharing positive energy
- Showing up for yourself
- Sitting with difficulty
- Squeezing George Washington so tight he cries
- Sravasti Grove
- Stateville
- Sticking to my principles
- Street kids
- Stress
- Strong attachment to desire
- Suicide watch
- Supporting a loved one in prison
- Surviving in the system
- Taking the bodhisattva vows
- Talking to the person I used to be
- Teaching meditation in the prison system
- Tears of compassion
- Thanks for the Dharma Dispatch
- The allure of drugs
- The amazing effects of compassion
- The beauty of creating the causes
- The choices we make
- The coffee pot: A test of my tolerance
- The cure
- The Dalai Lama on prison life
- The day has finally arrived
- The de facto clause
- The deer
- The Dharma is flourishing
- The extinguishing of fires
- The garden notices the rocks moving
- The grief and resilience of a mother
- The hills we climb
- The internal tiger: anger and fear
- The jerk and the potato chips
- The journey
- The liberation of self-forgiveness
- The lone Buddhist
- The middle way
- The most stable people in prison
- The mule
- The pagoda project: An update
- The pajama room
- The path and the garden
- The peace and beauty of the night’s darkness
- The power of precepts
- The precept of nonviolence
- The prison way of life
- The reality of adversity
- The Ronco label maker
- The sangha in us all
- The secret to happiness
- The spark
- The Teddy Bear Project
- The value of prison work
- Them
- Think about it
- Thoughts
- Tibetan Lama visits incarcerated people
- Time, inspiration, and gratitude
- Transfer
- Transforming adversity into bodhicitta
- Transforming grief into gratitude and love
- Transforming the three times
- Trauma and recovery
- Treasure the present
- Truth
- Try again
- Turning my life around
- Unforgettable memories
- Upon life’s journey
- Valentine’s Day at Oregon State Prison
- Valuable lesson learned
- Vanquishing depression and anxiety
- Views on reforming the prison system
- Visit to Airway Heights Correctional Center
- Watering seeds
- Wayward
- We are human beings
- What brings happiness
- What the Buddha taught
- Whisper
- Who understands me but me
- Who’s poisoning me?
- Wholesome or unwholesome seeds
- Why not me?
- Why should I fight?
- Why?
- Wisdom from Great Aunt Ga-ga
- Without a vodka bottle in my hand
- Working in a jail
- Working with Buddhists behind bars
- Working with People in Prison
- Worldly views
- Worthwhile people
Prostrations to the 35 Buddhas
Qualities of a Spiritual Teacher
Refuge in the Three Jewels
Seven-point Mind Training
Shantideva on the Establishments of Mindfulness
Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey
Shantideva Teachings in Singapore
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta
Speaking Wisely and Kindly
Stages of the Path
- 10 nonvirtues and results explained
- A broader view of destructive actions
- A Buddha’s body and speech
- A precious opportunity
- A rare and valuable opportunity
- Absorption factors and the jhanas
- Activities after taking refuge
- Activities of a buddha
- Advantages of cherishing others
- Advantages of relying on a teacher
- Advantages of renunciation
- Afflicted views
- Afflictions and the accumulation of karma
- All beings have been our mother
- Analytic and placement meditation
- Anger and its antidotes
- Antidotes to attachment
- Antidotes to delusion
- Antidotes to the eight worldly concerns and the ten innermost jewels
- Aspiring bodhicitta
- Attachment and anger
- Attachment to samadhi
- Attachment to the body
- Attachment, anger, and conceit
- Attaining serenity
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 1-6
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 13-18
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 19-20
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 21-25
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 25-34
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 35-39
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 40-46
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 7-12
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 22
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 23-30
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 30-36
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 35-40
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 39-46
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vows 1-5
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vows 13-16
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vows 18-21
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vows 6-12
- Avoiding rebirth in the lower realms
- Basic Buddhist topics
- Basis, path, and result
- Basis, path, and result: Discussion
- Becoming a better person
- Being fearless in making life meaningful
- Benefits of cherishing others
- Benefits of having taken refuge
- Benefits of relying on a spiritual mentor
- Benefits of taking refuge
- Birth, aging, and sickness
- Bodhicitta
- Bodhicitta and compassion
- Bodhicitta: Advantages and prerequisites
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints 11-18
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints 5-10
- Bodhisattva paths and grounds
- Building a strong foundation in the Dharma
- Calm abiding review
- Causal and resultant refuge
- Causes of the afflictions
- Chandrakirti’s homage to great compassion
- Classifications of karma
- Cleaning up our relationships
- Cleansing the mind of ignorance
- Clear wishes for our final moments
- Collective karma
- Commitments of aspiring bodhicitta
- Common precepts related to the Three Jewels
- Compassion is of utmost importance
- Complementary nature of the perfections
- Concentration and the five absorption factors
- Concentration, jhanas, and samadhi
- Conceptuality
- Conditions for developing serenity
- Contemplating death
- Contemplating specific aspects of karma
- Contemplating the eight types of dukkha, part 1
- Contemplating the eight types of dukkha, part 2
- Contemplating the lower realms
- Continuation of the discussion of karma
- Conventional and clear light mind
- Counteracting the hindrances
- Coveting, malice, wrong views
- Covetousness and malice
- Creating the causes for bodhicitta in future rebirths
- Creating the causes for happiness
- Creating the causes of happiness
- Cultivating joy and rest
- Cultivating our motivation
- Cultivating serenity: The five faults and their antidotes
- Cultivating the correct view
- Cultivating the correct view
- Daily practices for time of death
- Death and Dharma practice
- Death and impermanence
- Death and impermanence
- Death and refuge
- Death and the bardo
- Death and the intermediate state
- Death is definite
- Death is definite but time is uncertain
- Death time and our body
- Death time and possessions
- Death time and relationships
- Definite and indefinite karma
- Dependent arising
- Dependent arising and emptiness
- Dependent arising: Links 1-3
- Dependent arising: Links 4-12
- Detaching from the eight worldly concerns
- Developing bodhicitta
- Developing calm abiding
- Developing conviction in karma
- Developing equanimity
- Developing insight into emptiness
- Developing the qualities of a buddha
- Dharma and Sangha Jewels in depth
- Dharma refuge
- Disadvantages of anger
- Disadvantages of improper reliance
- Disadvantages of not thinking of death
- Disadvantages of self-centeredness
- Disadvantages of self-centeredness
- Disadvantages of the afflictions
- Divisive speech
- Dwelling in the Vibrant Warmth of Bodhicitta
- Dying without fear and regret
- Eight fully ripened excellent qualities
- Eightfold noble path
- Emptiness and buddha nature
- Entering the great vehicle
- Environmental results of positive actions
- Equalizing and exchanging self and other
- Equalizing and exchanging self and other
- Equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Equalizing self and other
- Equalizing self and others
- Equalizing self and others
- Equalizing self and others
- Equanimity and bodhicitta
- Equanimity—freedom from bias
- Equanimity: Changing our conceptions of others
- Equanimity: The foundation for bodhicitta
- Equanimity: The foundation of bodhicitta
- Essence of Refined Gold
- Establishing a daily practice
- Establishing selflessness
- Ethical conduct and benefitting sentient beings
- Ethical conduct and precepts
- Ethical conduct review
- Ethics and precepts
- Ethics and the other perfections
- Ethics, concentration, and wisdom
- Examples of mutual dependence
- Excellent qualities of the dharma and sangha
- Exchanging self and others
- Exchanging self and others
- Exchanging self and others to develop bodhicitta
- Excitement and application
- Experiencing the results of karma
- Extensive giving
- Far-reaching attitude of ethics
- Far-reaching generosity and ethical conduct
- Far-reaching joyous effort
- Faults of the mental afflictions
- Favorable qualities for Dharma practice
- Five absorptions factors in brief
- Five faults to serenity
- Five hindrances to concentration
- Flattening our pride
- Forgetting the object of meditation
- Fortitude and religious intolerance
- Fortitude of enduring suffering
- Fortitude of practicing the Dharma
- Fortitude review
- Four opponent powers: Determination to refrain
- Four opponent powers: Regret
- Four opponent powers: Remedial action
- Freedoms and fortunes of this life
- Freeing ourselves from samsara
- From serenity to the jhanas
- Gambling and other addictions
- Gathering disciples and meditative stability
- General characteristics of karma
- General characteristics of karma
- Generating bodhicitta
- Generating love and compassion
- Generating renunciation
- Generosity according to the four points
- Generosity, ethics and patience
- Getting what we don’t want
- Giving to all sentient beings
- Giving up grasping
- Giving up worldly concerns, gaining wisdom
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Aspiring Bodhicitta
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Birth, aging, sickness, and death
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Bodhicitta
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Cultivating compassion
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Developing conviction in karma
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Equanimity
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Equanimity and equalizing self and others
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Exchanging self for others
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Homage to compassion
- Gomchen lamrim review: How to rely on the teachings and teachers
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Karma
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Karma in daily life
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Precious human life
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Refuge in the Three Jewels
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Reliance on a spiritual mentor
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Remembering death brings life to our practice
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Seven-point cause and effect instruction
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Seven-point cause and effect instruction continued
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Specific aspects of karma
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The 37 harmonies
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The actual meditation session
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The afflictions
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The causes for taking refuge
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The importance of remembering death
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The six preparatory practices
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The teachings, teachers, and students
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The truth of dukkha
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Two meditations on death
- Gomchen Lamrim study guide
- Great compassion
- Great compassion and the great resolve
- Great resolve and bodhicitta
- Great value and rarity of a precious rebirth
- Guided meditation on death and impermanence
- Guided meditation on precious human rebirth
- Guided meditation on spiritual mentors
- Guided meditation on the value of a precious human rebirth
- Guided meditation: imagining our death
- Guided meditation: Taking refuge in the Three Jewels
- Guided meditation: The four characteristics of karma
- Guided meditation: The lower realms and refuge
- Guided nine-point death meditation
- Guidelines after taking refuge
- Harsh speech and idle talk
- Having a kind heart
- Heart-warming love
- Heartwarming love
- Higher training in ethics
- Hindrances to concentration: Desire and ill will
- Hindrances to concentration: Doubt
- Hindrances to concentration: Dullness
- Hindrances to concentration: Dullness and drowsiness
- Hindrances to concentration: Remorse
- Hindrances to concentration: Restlessness
- History of the lamrim
- How karma is accumulated
- How purification works
- How rebirth works
- How Tara helps us
- How teachings should be studied and taught
- How the afflictions arise
- How the bodhisattva vows are useful
- How to approach the Dharma
- How to explain the Dharma
- How to listen to and explain the Dharma teachings
- How to listen to teachings
- How to listen to the Dharma
- How to meditate on insight
- How to purify bad actions by means of the four powers
- How to rely on spiritual mentors in thought and deed
- How to see the guru
- How to see the spiritual mentor
- How to take full advantage of a precious human rebirth
- How to take refuge in the Three Jewels
- Identifying 18 freedoms and endowments, their great value
- Identifying afflictive ignorance
- Identifying attachment
- Identifying inherent existence
- Identifying the person
- Ignorance, doubt, and afflicted views
- Ignorance, doubt, and afflictive views
- Illusion-like appearances
- Illusion-like appearances
- Imagining your death
- Inappropriate attention
- Infallible effects of karma
- Introduction
- Introduction to lamrim
- Introduction to the Four Establishments of Mindfulness
- Introduction to the lamrim teachings
- Investigating the self
- Joyous effort
- Joyous effort and concentration
- Joyous effort review
- Karma
- Karma and virtue
- Karma is not cast in concrete
- Karmic results
- Lama TsongKhapa Day talk
- Lamrim outline (overview)
- Lamrim outline: Advanced
- Lamrim outline: Foundation
- Lamrim outline: Initial
- Lamrim outline: Intermediate
- Lamrim outline: Introduction
- Lamrim outline: Preparatory practices
- Laxity and excitement
- Laziness that interferes with practice
- Letting go of worldly concerns
- Liberation from dukkha
- Life in samsara
- Living compassion
- Living in the joy of the Dharma
- Living with integrity
- Looking at rebirth
- Making life meaningful
- Making offerings and precious human rebirth
- Making wise decisions
- Meaning and benefits of fortitude
- Meditating on death and impermanence
- Meditating on emptiness: The four point analysis, part 1
- Meditating on emptiness: The four point analysis, part 2
- Meditating on suffering
- Meditating on suffering (continued)
- Meditating on the 10 destructive actions
- Meditating to generate bodhicitta
- Meditating to generate love and compassion
- Meditation and review on equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Meditation and review on equanimity
- Meditation and review on love, compassion and bodhicitta
- Meditation and review on seeing the kindness of all beings
- Meditation on death
- Meditation on the initial scope of the lamrim
- Meditation session outline
- Meditations on impermanence and death
- Meditative stability
- Meditative stability and wisdom
- Mental pathways of virtue
- Mind and limitless good qualities
- Mindfulness and introspective awareness
- Mindfulness for ethics, concentration, and wisdom
- Mindfulness of body and feelings
- Mindfulness of death, faults and benefits
- Mindfulness of ethical conduct
- Mindfulness of mind and phenomena
- More on joyous effort
- More on the five lay precepts
- More on the ten paths of nonvirtue today
- More qualities of the Buddha
- More refuge meditation topics
- Motivation and karma
- Moving towards our spiritual goals
- Naturally negative versus proscribed actions
- Negating inherent existence
- Nine stages of sustained attention
- Nine steps to gaining serenity
- Nine-point death meditation
- Nine-point death meditation
- Nine-point meditation for equalizing self and others
- Nine-point meditation on death
- Non-revelatory forms and vows
- Objects of meditation
- Objects of meditation
- Objects of meditation and deterrents
- Objects of meditation: Pali tradition
- Objects of refuge
- Obstructions to the clear and knowing mind
- Obtaining a precious human life
- Obtaining offerings properly and setting the right posture
- Offering our bodies to sentient beings
- Only dharma will benefit at death
- Our Buddha potential
- Our unsatisfactory experiences
- Overcoming confusion
- Overcoming discouragement
- Overcoming ignorance
- Overcoming the five hindrances to concentration
- Overview of the stages of the path
- Overview of the stages of the path
- Path to liberation
- Patience and joyous action
- Patience in developing serenity
- Perfection of generosity
- Perfections of concentration and wisdom
- Physical and verbal pathways of virtue
- Points on karma and purification using the four forces
- Positive actions and their results
- Practice virtue, avoid non-virtue
- Precious human life
- Precious human rebirth
- Preliminaries to meditation
- Preparing for calm abiding meditation
- Preparing for death
- Preparing for lamrim meditation
- Preparing the meditation space and making offerings
- Pride and ignorance
- Profound view
- Progressing from wrong conceptions to correct view
- Purifying environmental effects of karma
- Purifying our negativities
- Putting the Dharma into practice
- Qualities of a Buddha
- Qualities of a Buddha’s mind
- Qualities of qualified disciples
- Qualities of the Buddha Jewel
- Qualities of the Dharma Jewel
- Qualities of the lamrim
- Qualities of the Sangha Jewel
- Qualities of the Three Jewels
- Questions about idle talk
- Questions and answers about karma
- Rarity of a precious human rebirth
- Real and unreal
- Realizing selflessness
- Realizing things as they are
- Recognizing our afflictions
- Recognizing our mothers and their kindness
- Reflecting on the empty nature of phenomena
- Reflecting on the six types of dukkha
- Refuge
- Refuge advice
- Refuge and the excellent qualities of the Buddha
- Refuge guidelines and karma
- Refuge meditation topics
- Refuting inherently existent phenomena
- Refuting the inherent self
- Regard for the spiritual mentor
- Reliance on a teacher
- Relying on a qualified spiritual mentor
- Relying on a spiritual friend
- Relying on teachers in thought
- Relying on teachers in thought and deed
- Relying on the Dharma
- Relying upon Tara the liberator
- Remembering love and compassion
- Renounce suffering, practice joyfully
- Renunciation
- Renunciation and bodhicitta
- Renunciation and joyous effort
- Repaying the kindness of our mother
- Respecting the views of others
- Revelatory and non-revelatory forms
- Review of cultivating insight into emptiness
- Review of five faults and eight antidotes
- Review of serenity
- Review of the intermediate scope practices of the lamrim
- Review of the six preparatory practices
- Review of three kinds of dependent arising
- Review: Nine stages of sustained attention
- Right action and livelihood
- Right concentration and effort
- Right effort, view, and thought
- Right mindfulness
- Ripening the minds of others
- Root bodhisattva vows: Vows 1 to 4
- Root bodhisattva vows: Vows 14 to 18
- Root bodhisattva vows: Vows 5 to 13
- Samsara and dukkha
- Sangha refuge
- Seeing all beings as having been our kind mother
- Seeing all sentient beings as having been our kind mothers
- Seeing the kindness of our mothers
- Seeking enlightenment for the benefit of others
- Self centeredness and the five decisions
- Serenity and insight
- Seven-point cause and effect
- Sexual misconduct, lying, and divisive speech
- Six conditions for serenity
- Six perfections and three higher trainings
- Six qualities of a disciple
- Six root afflictions: Conceit and “I am”
- Six root afflictions: Conceit and comparing
- Six root afflictions: Conceit and humility
- Six root afflictions: Doubt
- Six root afflictions: Ignorance
- Six root afflictions: Ignorance and wrong views
- Six root afflictions: Recognizing doubt
- Six root afflictions: View of the extremes
- Six root afflictions: Wrong views
- Six root afflictions: Wrong views, part 2
- Speaking at appropriate times
- Spiritual practice transforms us
- Spiritual teachers
- Stages of the Path (lamrim) 1991-1994
- Starting with renunciation
- Sufferings of cyclic existence
- Sufferings of cyclic existence
- Taking and giving
- Taking joy in our Dharma practice
- Taking on the suffering of others
- Taking rebirth from the intermediate state
- Taking refuge
- Taking refuge in the guru
- Taking refuge in the Three Jewels
- Taking-and-giving meditation
- The 10 constructive actions
- The 10 non-virtues: 3 of body
- The 10 non-virtues: 3 of mind
- The 10 non-virtues: Disharmonious speech
- The 10 non-virtues: Harsh speech
- The 10 non-virtues: Idle talk
- The 10 non-virtues: Lying
- The 10 virtues
- The 12 links and the four noble truths
- The 12 links of dependent arising: Overview
- The 37 harmonies with awakening
- The 37 harmonies with awakening, part 2
- The advantages of bodhicitta
- The advantages of cherishing others
- The advantages of cherishing others
- The altruistic intention
- The bardo and taking rebirth
- The benefits and causes of bodhicitta
- The benefits of love
- The benefits of remembering death
- The bodhisattva precepts: Part 1
- The bodhisattva precepts: Part 2
- The bodhisattva precepts: Part 3 and the six perfections
- The Buddha’s first teaching
- The cause of unsatisfactory experience
- The causes of bodhicitta
- The certainty of death
- The correct view
- The death and rebirth process
- The destructive actions of speech
- The determination to be free
- The disadvantages of self-centeredness
- The disadvantages of self-centeredness
- The drawbacks to not remembering death
- The dukkha of cyclic existence
- The dukkha of uncertainty
- The effects of negative karma
- The effects of the ten non-virtues
- The eight disadvantages of cyclic existence
- The eight one-day precepts
- The eight types of suffering
- The eight worldly concerns
- The eight worldly concerns
- The eight worldly concerns
- The eightfold path
- The eightfold path: Benefiting others
- The emptiness of inherent existence
- The Essence of a Human Life
- The factors that influence karmic weight
- The far-reaching practice of fortitude
- The far-reaching practice of joyous effort
- The far-reaching practice of patience
- The far-reaching practice of wisdom
- The first noble truth and dukkha
- The first noble truth: Dukkha
- The first noble truth: Our situation in samsara
- The five afflictive views
- The five appropriated aggregates are suffering
- The five faults and eight antidotes
- The five hindrances to meditative stabilization
- The five lay precepts
- The five types of afflictive views
- The fortunes of a precious human life
- The four aspects of joyous effort
- The four aspects of karma
- The four aspects of killing and stealing
- The four distortions
- The four factors of gathering disciples
- The four fearlessnesses of the Buddha
- The four general characteristics of karma
- The four great qualities of the lamrim
- The four opponent powers
- The freedoms and fortunes of a precious human rebirth
- The freedoms of a precious human life
- The general characteristics of karma
- The great resolve and bodhicitta
- The greatness of the Dharma
- The greatness of the teaching
- The importance of a teacher
- The importance of remembering death
- The kindness of our mothers
- The kindness of our spiritual mentors
- The life of Lama Tsongkhapa
- The lower realms
- The lower realms and taking refuge
- The meaning of precepts
- The meaning of refuge
- The measure of the middle scope attitude
- The meditation on taking and giving
- The mental nonvirtues: coveting, malice and wrong views
- The middle way view
- The nine-point death meditation
- The nonvirtues of harsh speech and idle talk
- The nonvirtues of lying and divisive speech
- The nonvirtues of stealing and sexual misconduct
- The object of negation
- The object of negation
- The objects of different consciousnesses
- The order in which afflictions develop
- The path to cultivate
- The path to liberation
- The pathways of physical nonvirtue
- The patience of not retaliating
- The perfection of concentration
- The perfection of ethical conduct
- The perfection of fortitude
- The perfection of generosity
- The permutations of karma
- The practice of refuge
- The pratimoksha vows
- The precepts for aspiring and engaging bodhicitta
- The preliminaries
- The protection of the aspiring bodhicitta precepts
- The purpose of remembering death
- The qualities of spiritual mentors and students
- The qualities of the Three Jewels
- The relationship between the two truths
- The relationship with a teacher
- The results of karma
- The results of the 10 destructive actions
- The roadmap to enlightenment
- The second noble truth: the root afflictions
- The self as a merely labeled phenomenon
- The seven-point cause-and-effect practice
- The six far-reaching attitudes
- The six far-reaching practices
- The six far-reaching practices
- The six preliminary practices, part 1
- The six preliminary practices, part 2
- The six preparatory practices
- The six sufferings of sentient beings
- The sufferings of the three upper realms
- The ten non virtuous paths of action
- The ten paths of nonvirtue today
- The three forms of generosity
- The three physical destructive actions
- The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
- The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
- The three types of fortitude
- The three types of laziness
- The time of death is indefinite
- The truth of dukkha
- The twelve links of dependent arising
- The twelve links of dependent arising (continued)
- The two truths
- The ultimate mode of existence
- The Vajrayana path
- The vast benefits of bodhicitta
- The way to rely on a teacher
- The wheel of life
- The wish to repay the kindness of all beings
- Three destructive actions of mind
- Three kinds of dependent arising
- Three kinds of ethical conduct
- Three levels of dependent arising
- Three levels of Dharma practitioners
- Three qualities of a student
- Three types of compassion
- Three types of generosity
- Three types of persons
- Training in calm abiding
- True origins
- Ultimate and conventional existence
- Understanding the Three Jewels
- Unfortunate rebirths
- Unsatisfactoriness of god realms
- Valuing our intelligence
- Various ways of describing karma
- Verbal pathways of virtue
- Virtuous actions and their effects
- Virtuous karma and its effects
- Visualizing sentient beings
- Visualizing the Buddha
- Visualizing the merit field
- Visualizing the merit field and offering the seven-limb prayer
- Visualizing the Three Jewels
- Ways in which we apprehend phenomena
- What is important at the time of death
- What is to be done in between sessions
- What makes karma heavy and strong
- What makes karma powerful
- What matters at the time of death
- What to do between sessions
- What to do during the actual session
- What to do during the meditation session and between sessions
- Why the truth of suffering is taught first
- Wisdom that knows the ultimate nature
- Wisdom: Understanding reality
- Wrong views, karma, and karmic paths
Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja
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- A broad perspective
- Afflictions and karma, their seeds and latencies
- Afflictions and the nature of the mind
- Afflictions are the enemy
- Afflictions are weak
- Afflictions, our real enemy
- Afflictive views
- Aging or death
- Anger and disillusionment
- Applying karma to our lives
- Are sentient beings already Buddhas?
- Arya disposition and Buddha nature
- Aspiring bodhicitta
- Attaining serenity
- Authenticity of the mahayana scriptures
- Auxiliary afflictions
- Auxiliary afflictions in the Pali tradition
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 1-6
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 13-18
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 19-20
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 21-25
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 25-34
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 35-39
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 40-46
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 7-12
- Awareness of our buddha nature eliminates hindrances
- Becoming a qualified disciple
- Benefits of cherishing others
- Benefits of meditating on the the 12 links
- Benefits of practicing the Pratimoksha
- Birth
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints 11-18
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints 5-10
- Bodhisattva’s refuge and ethical conduct
- Bodhisattvas’ path to awakening
- Body, mind, rebirth and self
- Buddha as a reliable guide, reverse order
- Buddhahood depends on sentient beings
- Buddhism in Tibet
- Causal clear light mind
- Checking our meditation experiences
- Classification of phenomena
- Clinging and renewed existence
- Clusters of afflictions
- Common guidelines and maintaining proper refuge
- Compassion and the determination to be free
- Concentration, knowledge & vision and disenchantment
- Conceptual and non-conceptual consciousnesses
- Concluding teaching
- Consciousness
- Constructive actions and the weight of karma
- Consumerism and the environment
- Contemplating the seven limbs
- Conventional and ultimate analysis
- Correct reasons and reliable cognizers
- Correctly understanding the point
- Counterforces to the afflictions
- Craving
- Craving and clinging
- Creating our future
- Cultivating excellent qualities
- Cultivating love and compassion
- Cultivating love and compassion, a review
- Definite and indefinite karma
- Dependent arising
- Dependent arising
- Disadvantages of self-centeredness
- Disadvantages of the eight worldly concerns
- Disagreement and conflict
- Discerning virtuous from nonvirtuous actions
- Distinguishing features of the Three Jewels
- Dormant and manifest consciousnesses
- Early Buddhism in Sri Lanka
- Early Buddhist schools
- Eight excellent qualities of sangha jewel
- Eight excellent qualities of the buddha jewel
- Eight excellent qualities of the dharma jewel
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 1-2
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 3-6
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 7-8
- Eighty-four thousand afflictions
- Emotions and klesas
- Engaged Buddhism and political involvement
- Entrance to the Buddhist path
- Equality of samsara and nirvana
- Equality of samsara and nirvana
- Equalizing self and others
- Ethical conduct review
- Evaluating the authenticity of teachings
- Exaggerated statements?
- Examples illustrating rebirth
- Examples of how we cycle
- Examples of mutual dependence
- Examples to understand rebirth
- Excellent qualities can be built up cumulatively
- Excellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
- Excellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
- Excellent qualities can be enhanced
- Explicit and implicit presentations of the 12 links
- Exploring Buddhism
- Extensive giving
- Facing an ethical crisis
- Factors causing afflictions to arise
- Faith, purification, and merit
- Faulty conceptualization
- Feeling
- Feelings and the ethical dimension of afflictions
- Fetters and pollutants
- Final and provisional refuges
- Finding true happiness
- First-link ignorance
- Formally taking refuge
- Formative action
- Fortitude and religious intolerance
- Fortitude review
- Four attributes of true cessations
- Four attributes of true duhkha
- Four attributes of true origins
- Four attributes of true paths
- Four buddha bodies
- Four kinds of self-confidence, ten powers
- Four puzzling points
- Four truths and three levels of practitioners
- Freedom from cyclic existence
- From serenity to the jhanas
- General characteristics of karma
- Giving to all sentient beings
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Aspiring Bodhicitta
- Gradual progress and cultivating bodhicitta
- Great resolve and bodhicitta
- Guidelines for each of the Three Jewels
- Having-ceased
- Higher ethical codes and making mistakes
- How to listen to the Dharma
- How to meditate on insight
- How to study the teachings
- Identifying afflictive ignorance
- Identifying inherent existence
- Identifying the person
- Illusion-like appearances
- Imperceptible forms
- Intention karma and intended karma
- Intention, karmic paths and afflictions
- Interrelationship of the lamrim topics
- Intoxicants and celibacy
- Is liberation possible?
- Is liberation possible?
- Is the Buddha’s word always spoken by the Buddha?
- Joyous effort
- Joyous effort review
- Karma and current ethical issues
- Karma and current ethical issues continued
- Karma and its effects
- Karma and our environment
- Karma in samsara and beyond
- Karma that ripens at death
- Kinds of duhkha
- Lamrim and six preparatory practices
- Last six of the unshared qualities
- Levels of mind
- Like gold in filth
- Like illusions
- Living with an awareness of impermanence and death
- Looking beyond this life
- Making requests, receiving blessings, and gaining realizations
- Meditation session outline
- Meditative stability
- Mental non-virtues
- Mental states and situations that are troublesome, a review
- Mind and emotions
- Mind and the external world
- Mind is the source of happiness
- Mind training
- More on joyous effort
- More on seeds and latencies
- More on the ten paths of nonvirtue today
- Nagarjuna’s analysis of arising
- Name and form
- Nature of the mind
- Nine similes for Tathāgatagarbha
- Nine stages of sustained attention
- Nine-point death meditation
- Nirvana
- Nirvana as the object of meditation
- Nirvana in the Pali tradition
- Nirvana is true peace
- Nominally existent self
- Nothing is to be removed
- Object ascertaining and virtuous mental factors
- Objects of meditation
- Objects of meditation: Pali tradition
- Offering our bodies to sentient beings
- One taste
- Only the Dharma helps at death
- Other life forms
- Other types of afflictions
- Our human value
- Overcoming the four distorted conceptions
- Paths for spiritual development
- Perfection of generosity
- Powa, transference of consciousness
- Prayers, rituals, and practice
- Preventing and resolving problems
- Primordially pure awareness
- Prostrations and the four Buddha Bodies
- Purifying destructive karma
- Q&A on the 12 links of dependent origination
- Qualities of Buddha’s body, speech and mind
- Qualities to abandon and cultivate
- Questions and answers on meditation
- Real and unreal
- Realistic expectations
- Realizing selflessness
- Realms of existence
- Rebirth: Past and future lives
- Recollection of the Buddha
- Recollection of the Dharma and Sangha
- Reflection on cultivating excellent qualities
- Refuge and bodhicitta
- Relating to our teacher by action
- Reliable cognizers and meditation
- Reliable cognizers and syllogisms
- Reliable cognizers based on example and authoritative testimony
- Religion in the modern world
- Relying on a spiritual mentor
- Renewed existence
- Requesting inspiration
- Review of attachment
- Review of Buddha nature
- Review of Chapter 10
- Review of Chapter 2
- Review of Chapter 3
- Review of Chapter 4
- Review of Chapter 5
- Review of Chapter 6
- Review of Chapter 7
- Review of chapter 9
- Review of Chapter 9
- Review of chapters 10 and 11
- Review of chapters 4 and 5
- Review of chapters 6 and 7
- Review of cultivating insight into emptiness
- Review of dependent origination
- Review of emotions and afflictions
- Review of emotions and feelings
- Review of fear, anger and disillusionment
- Review of feeling
- Review of five faults and eight antidotes
- Review of loving kindness
- Review of precious human life
- Review of serenity
- Review of tenets and buddha nature
- Review of the 10 nonvirtuous actions
- Review of the 4 fearlessnesses and 10 powers
- Review of the four seals
- Review of the four truths
- Review of the four truths
- Review of the Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha
- Review of the nature of mind
- Review of the possibility of ending duhkha
- Review of the self
- Review of three kinds of dependent arising
- Review of true duhkha
- Review: Nine stages of sustained attention
- Rigpa
- Role models
- Roles and responsibilities of a spiritual mentor
- Science and gender equality
- Seeing the guru as Buddha
- Self centeredness and the five decisions
- Sentience, mind, and brain
- Serenity and insight
- Six conditions for serenity
- Six sources
- Sources, contact, feeling
- Spread of Buddhadharma
- Structuring a meditation session
- Structuring a meditation session
- Subtlest clear light mind
- Taking on the suffering of others
- Taking-and-giving meditation
- Tantra and Buddhist canons
- Ten powers
- Ten powers and eighteen unshared qualities
- The “Ye Dharma Dharani”
- The actual session and dedications
- The attributes of the four truths
- The benefits of relying on a spiritual mentor
- The body and mind
- The Buddha as a reliable guide
- The Buddha responds to questions about rebirth
- The Buddha’s omniscient mind
- The complexity of karma
- The correct view
- The death process
- The difficulty of attaining a precious human life
- The eight excellent qualities of the dharma jewel
- The eight worldly concerns
- The essence of a meaningful life
- The existence of the Three Jewels
- The five faults and eight antidotes
- The five hindrances to meditative stabilization
- The four maras
- The four truths
- The four truths of the aryas
- The growth of the Mahayana
- The importance of ethical conduct
- The importance of motivation
- The mind and its potential
- The mind’s potential in the Pali tradition
- The nature of mind
- The object of negation
- The order in which afflictions arise
- The origin of duhkha
- The path of the initial level practitioner
- The perfection of ethical conduct
- The perfection of fortitude
- The perfection of generosity
- The possibility of ending duhkha
- The potential for liberation
- The power of afflictions and purification
- The Pratimoksha ethical code
- The precepts for aspiring and engaging bodhicitta
- The purity of emptiness
- The purity of the mind
- The qualities of a spiritual mentor
- The reasons for taking refuge
- The relationship between the two truths
- The results of karma
- The root afflictions: Anger
- The root afflictions: Arrogance
- The root afflictions: Attachment
- The root afflictions: Ignorance
- The root of samsara
- The six far-reaching practices
- The ten paths of nonvirtue today
- The three baskets
- The three types of fortitude
- The threefold analysis
- The two obscurations
- The two truths
- The two truths and non-deceptive knowledge
- The value of the monastic community
- The workings of karma
- Three aspects of the Tathagatagarbha
- Three jewels according to the fundamental vehicle
- Three jewels according to the perfection vehicle
- Three Jewels of the Vajra vehicle
- Three kinds of dependent arising
- Three kinds of karmic result
- Three nonvirtues of mind
- Three questions about the self
- Three turnings of the Dharma wheel
- Tools for the path
- Transcendental dependent origination
- Transforming and naturally abiding Buddha nature
- True cessations
- True duhkha
- Turning the Dharma wheel and buddha nature
- Twenty-first century Buddhists
- Two aims and four reliances
- Types of awareness
- Types of duhkha
- Types of nirvana
- Ultimate nature of the twelve links
- Unborn clear light mind
- Understanding ignorance
- Using the subtlest clear light mind on the path
- Vehicles and paths
- Verbal non-virtues
- View of a personal identity
- Virtue, nonvirtue, merit, and roots of nonvirtue
- Virtuous and variable mental factors & the afflictions
- What is mind?
- What obscures our buddha nature
- What to practice while dying
- When karma ripens
- Who experiences the 12 links?
- Willingness to undergo hardship
- Working in the world
- Working with the afflictions review
Study Buddhist Treatises Podcast
- A bodhisattva’s humility
- A defender’s four answers
- A graded range of consciousnesses
- Abandoning attachment
- Acting appropriately
- Agent, action, and object
- Aggression, arrogance and grudges
- Attachment and anger
- Attachment hinders our concentration
- Attachment to body, friends, and family
- Attachment to the body
- Averting the causes of war
- Awareness of our body and speech
- Believing in something that is not real
- Biting the hook of anger
- Bodhicitta makes life meaningful
- Bodhisattva root downfalls 11-18
- Bodhisattva secondary misdeeds 1-9
- Bodhisattva secondary misdeeds 10-22
- Buddhist ontology
- Challengers and defenders
- Chapter 5: Verse 440
- Chapter 5: Verses 441-446
- Chapter 5: Verses 453-458
- Chapter 5: Verses 459-460
- Chapter 5: Verses 461-462
- Chapter 5: Verses 463-466
- Chapter 5: Verses 466-467
- Chapter 5: Verses 468-470
- Chapter 5: Verses 471-475
- Chapter 5: Verses 476-479
- Chapter 5: Verses 477-484
- Chapter 5: Verses 484-489
- Chapter 5: Verses 488-491
- Chapter 5: Verses 491-492
- Chapter 5: Verses 493-500
- Cherishing our enemies
- Childish sentient beings
- Choosing your debate partner
- Comparisons of consciousnesses
- Compassion for difficult people
- Competition and exchanging self with others
- Concluding review
- Conscientiousness
- Consequences
- Contemplating karma and its effects
- Conventional consciousness
- Correct signs practice and review
- Counteracting anger
- Courage in the face of harm
- Courage to practice
- Crises in monastic life
- Debate in action
- Debate practice continued
- Debate review
- Debating impermanence
- Debating with anger
- Declaring my faults & praising others
- Definitions
- Definitions, divisions, and consequences
- Different kinds of refuge
- Direct perceivers
- Disadvantages of discarding bodhicitta
- Dispelling all suffering
- Distracted by the causes for pain
- Divisions and illustrations
- Divisions of the selfless
- Divisions of the selfless
- Don’t misunderstand Shantideva
- Doubt and correctly assuming consciousness
- Enacting others’ welfare
- Enough childish behavior!
- Epistemological requirements
- Equalizing self and other ultimately
- Everyone wants happiness
- Exchanging our bodies with others
- Facsimiles of direct perceivers
- Forming a correct syllogism
- Fortitude for those who cause harm
- Forward pervasion
- Four kinds of direct perceivers
- Four opponent powers
- Four possibilities
- Freedoms and fortunes of a precious human life
- Freeing ourselves from negativity
- Functioning things
- Generating wisdom
- Giving our body and the Dharma
- Giving ourselves to others
- Giving up attachment
- Giving up desire
- Guarding the mind
- Help and harm
- Hidden phenomena and manifest phenomena
- How the afflictions deceive us
- How to act when afflictions arise
- Illusion or illusion like
- Imagining our death and pacifying distractions
- Impermanent and permanent phenomena
- Inattentive perceptions, doubt, and wrong consciousnesses
- Inferential cognizers and direct perceivers
- Internal matter
- Introduction and homage
- Intrusive conditions and incompatible propensities
- Isolation of body and mind
- It’s unreasonable to be angry
- Jealousy
- Joy and rest as supports for joyous effort
- Joyfully engaging in virtue
- Joyous effort, concentration & wisdom
- Keeping the promise of bodhicitta
- Let’s debate!
- Living in the jaws of death
- Making effort with joy
- Making effort, joyfully
- Making sensuous offerings to the Buddhas
- Manjushri, the special deity of debate
- Meditation on equanimity
- Meditation on taking the bodhisattva vow
- Mental consciousness
- Mindfulness and fear
- Mindfulness and introspective awareness
- More debate practice
- Motivation to practice
- Mutually inclusive phenomena
- Natural nirvana and actual nirvana
- No real owner of suffering
- Nonassociated compositional factors
- Nonassociated compositional factors that are not persons
- Nonexistents
- Object ascertaining mental factors
- Offering natural substances
- Offering our bodies to all sentient beings
- Offering ourselves to the Buddhas
- One and different
- One and different as subjects
- One and many as predicates
- Others are as important as ourselves
- Others have been kind
- Outline of the selfless
- Overcoming discouragement
- People do not learn by suffering
- Permanent phenomena and functioning things
- Pleasing sentient beings
- Practical advice on manners
- Practice syllogisms
- Practicing the comparison of phenomena
- Practicing the defender’s answers
- Practicing the Dharma
- Praise and reputation
- Products and nonproduced phenomena
- Proving four possibilities and mutual exclusion
- Proving mutual inclusion
- Pushed by our afflictions
- Putting the dharma into practice
- Recollecting the Buddha
- Refuting a primal substance and independent self
- Refuting self-cognition
- Refuting the realists
- Regretting negativity by reflecting on death
- Rejoicing in others’ qualities
- Removing barriers to forgiveness
- Requesting teachings and our teachers to remain
- Resolute and stable
- Resolving to overcome our afflictions
- Respecting sentient beings
- Retaliation
- Review night
- Review of abstract composites
- Review of Chapter 1
- Review of Chapter 2
- Review of Chapter 3
- Review of Chapter 4
- Review of Chapter Five: “Guarding Alertness”
- Review of Chapter Five: “Guarding Alertness”, part two
- Review of Chapter Nine: Verses 1-4
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 1-11
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 12-21
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 22-34
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 36-40
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 40-42
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 43-44
- Review of chapters 11 and 12
- Review of consequences
- Review of definitions
- Review of Definitions
- Review of divisions of the selfless
- Review of external matter
- Review of four possibilities
- Review of functioning things
- Review of internal matter and consciousness
- Review of procedures in debate
- Review of sounds, odors and tastes
- Review of the two truths
- Review of three possibilities
- Review: Chapters 7-8
- Root bodhisattva downfalls
- Secondary misdeeds 23-32
- Secondary misdeeds 33-46
- Self-confidence
- Selflessness of phenomena
- Seven kinds of awareness
- Sounds, odors and tangible objects
- Specifically and generally characterized phenomena
- Statements of pervasion
- Statements of pervasion review
- Statements of qualities
- Statements of qualities review
- Statements of qualities review II
- Statements of qualities, Part 2
- Steadfastness
- Strategies in debate
- Subsequent cognizers
- Syllogisms
- Syllogisms
- Syllogisms review
- Taking pleasure in bad actions
- Taking the bodhisattva ethical restraint
- Tenets review
- The benefits of bodhicitta
- The benefits of difficulties
- The benefits of the study of Dudra
- The bodhisattva ethical code
- The body is not beautiful
- The Buddhist enthymeme
- The Buddhist syllogism
- The challenger responds to the defender
- The clap!
- The comparison of phenomena
- The courage to destroy the afflictions
- The danger of anger
- The danger of attachment to the body
- The defects of anger
- The defender’s answers
- The defender’s response
- The disadvantages of samsara
- The enemy of the afflictions
- The equivalents of existents
- The faults of attachment
- The faults of self-centeredness
- The filth of the body
- The foulness of the body
- The four powers that increase joyous effort
- The kind of person I want to be
- The kindness of enemies
- The kindness of others
- The meaning of compassion
- The merits of bodhicitta
- The omnipresent mental factors
- The opening volleys
- The perfection of ethical conduct & fortitude
- The rarity of a precious human life
- The root affliction of anger
- The root affliction of attachment
- The skeleton in the body
- The source of disagreement
- The three higher trainings
- The three purposes of debate
- The two truths
- Thought consciousnesses and direct perceivers
- Thought consciousnesses and direct perceivers
- Three kinds of sameness
- Three types of correct signs
- Tips for practice
- Ultimate and conventional truths
- Unhappiness fuels anger
- Valid syllogisms
- Virtuous mental factors #2-6
- Virtuous mental factors #7-11
- We are all equal
- Wealth is fraught with problems
- Wealth is suffering
- Western philosophy and early Buddhist knowledge
- What is prayer?
- What is the mind?
- Where do the afflictions exist?
- Who’s responsible for our suffering
- Why bodhicitta is so powerful
- Why do I protect myself and not others?
- Why study debate?
- Working with anger
- Yogis and common people
Teachings
- Saying goodbye to our spiritual teachers
- “Approaching the Buddhist Path”: Dependent arising and emptiness
- “Approaching the Buddhist Path”: Designation by term and concept
- “Approaching the Buddhist Path”: Exploring Buddhism
- “Approaching the Buddhist Path”: Mind training
- “Approaching the Buddhist Path”: The Buddhist view of life
- “Approaching the Buddhist Path”: The nature of the mind
- “Courageous Compassion” book launch
- “Courageous Compassion”: Reading and commentary
- “Don’t Believe Everything You Think” review: Verses 1-9
- “Don’t Believe Everything You Think”: Verses and stories
- “Five Faultless Gifts” and “Five Blessings”
- “Good Karma” book launch
- “Good Karma”: Book reading with questions and answers
- “Good Karma”: Creating the causes for happiness
- “Good Karma”: Creating the causes for our future experiences
- “Good Karma”: Creating the causes for the future we want
- “Good Karma”: Creating the causes for the kind of life we want
- “Good Karma”: How our actions bring about our experiences
- “Good Karma”: The ethical dimension of our actions
- “In Praise of Great Compassion” book launch
- “Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness”: Talk and book launch
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questions 1-3
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questions 4-7
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questions 8-12
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 8 questions 1-4
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 8 questions 5-9
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 2 questions 10-18
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 2 questions 19-21
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 3 questions 1-3
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 3 questions 4-6
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 3 questions 7-12
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 11-14
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 15-19
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 3-4
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 5-7
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 8-10
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4-5
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 5 questions 7-12
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 6 questions 1-7
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 6 questions 8-12
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions (continued)
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions 1-7
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions 16-19
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions 19-22 and part 2, 1-9
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions 8-15
- “Supplement to the Middle way”
- ༄༅། །ནུབ་པ་རིག་འཛིན་གྲགས་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པའི་ཞེན་པ་བཞི་བྲལ་བཞུགས། །
- 10 nonvirtues and results explained
- 100,000 Bows Toward Full Awakening
- 108 Verses: A bucket in a well
- 108 Verses: Verse 47 and dependence on others
- 108 Verses: Verse 7
- 108 Verses: Verse 7
- 108 Verses: Verse 8
- 108 Verses: Verse 9
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-14
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-3
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-6
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-6
- 108 Verses: Verses 10-12
- 108 Verses: Verses 100-108
- 108 Verses: Verses 13-14
- 108 Verses: Verses 15-17
- 108 Verses: Verses 15-19
- 108 Verses: Verses 17-21
- 108 Verses: Verses 20-26
- 108 Verses: Verses 27-34
- 108 Verses: Verses 35-41
- 108 Verses: Verses 43-46
- 108 Verses: Verses 48-52
- 108 Verses: Verses 52-53
- 108 Verses: Verses 54-56
- 108 Verses: Verses 57-62
- 108 Verses: Verses 63-70
- 108 Verses: Verses 7-9
- 108 Verses: Verses 71-76
- 108 Verses: Verses 76-77
- 108 Verses: Verses 78-81
- 108 Verses: Verses 8-9
- 108 Verses: Verses 84-99
- 10th anniversary of September 11
- 12 links of dependent arising
- 37 Practices: Verses 1-3
- 37 Practices: Verses 1-3
- 37 Practices: Verses 10-15
- 37 Practices: Verses 11-16
- 37 Practices: Verses 16-21
- 37 Practices: Verses 17-19
- 37 Practices: Verses 22-24
- 37 Practices: Verses 25-28
- 37 Practices: Verses 29-37
- 37 Practices: Verses 4-6
- 37 Practices: Verses 4-8
- 37 Practices: Verses 7-9
- 37 Practices: Verses 9-10
- 41 Prayers to Cultivate Bodhicitta
- 70 Topics: Application in complete aspects
- 70 Topics: Bodhicitta
- 70 Topics: Concentrations, absorptions, and bodhisattva grounds
- 70 Topics: Introduction
- 70 Topics: Introduction to application in complete aspects
- 70 Topics: Knower of all bases
- 70 Topics: Knower of paths
- 70 Topics: Mahayana instructions
- 70 Topics: Mahayana path of meditation
- 70 Topics: Mahayana paths
- 70 Topics: Peak application
- 70 Topics: The four applications and Buddhahood
- 70 Topics: The four buddha bodies
- A bodhisattva’s generosity
- A bodhisattva’s humility
- A broad perspective
- A broader view of destructive actions
- A bucket in a well
- A Buddha’s body and speech
- A Buddhist nun in high school
- A Buddhist perspective on friends
- A community based on shared values
- A defender’s four answers
- A graded range of consciousnesses
- A joyous long-term vision
- A kind heart as our motivation
- A letter to Venerable Chodron
- A life without guilt and blame
- A precious opportunity
- A proper motivation
- A rare and valuable opportunity
- A refutation of Vaisesika soteriology
- A solid concrete “I” does not exist
- A successful life
- A summary of previous explanations
- Abandoning attachment
- Abandoning nonvirtue, practicing virtue
- Abandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 1
- Abandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 2
- Abandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 3
- About attachment
- Absorbing yourself in ultimate love
- Absorption factors and the jhanas
- Absurd consequences
- Accepting defeat and offering the victory
- Accumulating merit
- Acknowledging our anger
- Acting appropriately
- Acting with kindness
- Acting with wisdom and compassion
- Actions to abandon and adopt
- Activities after taking refuge
- Activities of a buddha
- Advantages of bodhicitta
- Advantages of bodhicitta
- Advantages of cherishing others
- Advantages of cherishing others
- Advantages of relying on a teacher
- Advantages of renunciation
- Advice for gathering the collections of merit and wisdom
- Advice for newcomers to the Dharma
- Advice for Tibetan students
- Afflicted views
- Afflictions and karma, their seeds and latencies
- Afflictions and the accumulation of karma
- Afflictions and the nature of the mind
- Afflictions are the enemy
- Afflictions are weak
- Afflictions arise with a happy or angry mind
- Afflictions, mind, and the brain
- Afflictions, our real enemy
- Afflictive doubts, afflictive views
- Afflictive views
- Agent, action, and object
- Aggression, arrogance and grudges
- Aging or death
- All beings have been our mother
- All others are just like me
- An inherently existent self
- An introduction to grounds and paths
- An introduction to Tibetan Buddhist debate
- Analysis of sense perception versus thought
- Analytic and placement meditation
- Analyzing grudge holding
- Analyzing the basis of self
- Analyzing the terrorist
- Anger and disillusionment
- Anger and forgiveness
- Anger and its antidotes
- Anger and other disturbing attitudes
- Anger as exaggeration
- Anger in the moment
- Antidote for multiple mood swings in a day
- Antidotes to anger
- Antidotes to arrogance
- Antidotes to attachment
- Antidotes to attachment
- Antidotes to delusion
- Antidotes to jealousy
- Antidotes to the afflictions
- Antidotes to the eight worldly concerns and the ten innermost jewels
- Antidotes to the judgmental mind
- Apologizing and forgiving
- Apperceptive direct perceiver
- Applying Buddhist logic in meditation
- Applying emptiness to our lives
- Applying karma to our lives
- Applying the teachings on karma in our lives
- Applying the teachings to our minds
- Applying thought training in daily life
- Appreciating our opportunities
- Appreciating the opportunity to practice
- Appreciation and mindfulness
- Apprehending objects and the impact of interrelatedness
- Approaching the Buddhist Path
- Are sentient beings already Buddhas?
- Areligious Buddhism: Is there such a thing?
- Arya disposition and Buddha nature
- Asanga’s hearer’s grounds
- Ascertaining the definition in the definiendum
- Aspirations for degenerate times
- Aspiring and engaging bodhicitta
- Aspiring bodhicitta
- Aspiring for freedom: why worldly pleasures won’t cut it
- Atoms and breaths
- Attachment
- Attachment and anger
- Attachment and anger
- Attachment and death meditation
- Attachment Controls Us
- Attachment endangers us
- Attachment hinders our concentration
- Attachment to body, friends, and family
- Attachment to samadhi
- Attachment to the body
- Attachment to the body
- Attachment to this life
- Attachment, anger and confusion
- Attachment, anger, and conceit
- Attachment, grasping, and substantial existence
- Attaining serenity
- Attention and aspiration
- Attributes of true cessations: Cessation and peace
- Attributes of true cessations: Magnificent and Freedom
- Attributes of true dukkha: Dukkha
- Attributes of true dukkha: Empty
- Attributes of true dukkha: Impermanence
- Attributes of true dukkha: Selfless
- Attributes of true origins: Cause
- Attributes of true origins: Conditions
- Attributes of true origins: Origin
- Attributes of true origins: Strong producers
- Attributes of true paths: Accomplishment and irreversible
- Attributes of true paths: Path and suitable
- Authenticity of the mahayana scriptures
- Auxiliary afflictions
- Auxiliary afflictions in the Pali tradition
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 1-6
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 13-18
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 19-20
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 21-25
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 25-34
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 35-39
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 40-46
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 7-12
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 22
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 23-30
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 30-36
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 35-40
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 39-46
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vows 1-5
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vows 13-16
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vows 18-21
- Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vows 6-12
- Averting the causes of war
- Avoiding disturbing distractions
- Avoiding rebirth in the lower realms
- Avoiding the extreme of nihilism
- Awakening joy
- Awareness of our body and speech
- Awareness of our buddha nature eliminates hindrances
- Bad friends
- Bad friends and why we don’t need them
- Banishing bad habits
- Base of pure ethics
- Basic Buddhist topics
- Basis of designation
- Basis, path, and result
- Basis, path, and result: Discussion
- Becoming a better person
- Becoming a qualified disciple
- Becoming the person we want to be
- Being a wise practitioner
- Being fearless in making life meaningful
- Being kind to oneself
- Believing in something that is not real
- Benefiting others starts with motivation
- Benefits of cherishing others
- Benefits of cultivating bodhicitta
- Benefits of having taken refuge
- Benefits of meditating on the the 12 links
- Benefits of mind training
- Benefits of practicing the Pratimoksha
- Benefits of relying on a spiritual mentor
- Benefits of studying emptiness
- Benefits of studying the grounds and paths
- Benefits of taking refuge
- Betrayal
- Betrayal of trust
- Big love
- Big love
- Birth
- Birth, aging, and sickness
- Biting the hook of anger
- Bodhicitta
- Bodhicitta and compassion
- Bodhicitta makes life meaningful
- Bodhicitta, a vast perspective
- Bodhicitta, the best gift
- Bodhicitta, the most meaningful pursuit
- Bodhicitta: Advantages and prerequisites
- Bodhicitta: Gateway to the Mahayana path
- Bodhicitta: The jewel of the mind
- Bodhisattva aryas’ grounds
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints 11-18
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints 5-10
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: 6 causes of afflictions
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 11
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 25
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 35
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 45
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 46
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 12-15
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 16-18
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 19-22
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 2-4
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 22-24
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 26-29
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 30-33
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 34-35
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 36-38
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 39-41
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 4-5
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 41-43
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 43-44
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 6-7
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 8-10
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Introduction and vows 1-3
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Introduction and vows 1-3
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: The five hindrances
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vow 18 and auxiliary vow 1
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 12-14
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 15-17
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 4-5
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 6-8
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 9-11
- Bodhisattva grounds
- Bodhisattva grounds
- Bodhisattva grounds and paths
- Bodhisattva paths and grounds
- Bodhisattva root downfalls 11-18
- Bodhisattva secondary misdeeds 1-9
- Bodhisattva secondary misdeeds 10-22
- Bodhisattva’s refuge and ethical conduct
- Bodhisattvas’ path to awakening
- Body isn’t mind’s cooperative condition
- Body, mind, rebirth and self
- Boundless wisdom and compassion
- Bringing an awareness of karma into our lives
- Bringing the Dharma into the aging process
- Buddha as a reliable guide, reverse order
- Buddha nature
- Buddha nature
- Buddha nature and precious human life
- Buddha potential
- Buddha’s advice for a better world
- Buddha’s life and Mahayana
- Buddha’s first precious teaching
- Buddha’s infinite accustomation to compassion
- Buddhahood
- Buddhahood and individual liberation
- Buddhahood depends on sentient beings
- Buddhahood: Four buddha bodies
- Buddhism and social engagement
- Buddhism from a practitioner’s perspective
- Buddhism in professional life
- Buddhism in Tibet
- Buddhism, science, and mind
- Buddhist Advice for Ruling a Kingdom
- Buddhist meditation
- Buddhist ontology
- Buddhist psychology: Mind and mental factors
- Buddhist tenet systems: origin and background
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 1
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 2
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 3
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 4
- Buddhist tenet systems: Sprititual disposition and Buddha nature
- Buddhist tenet systems: What is the person?
- Buddhist tenet systems: Zeroing in on the correct view
- Buddhist traditions: finding what suits us
- Buddhist vs Catholic ordination
- Building a strong foundation in the Dharma
- Building confidence and self-esteem
- Calm abiding review
- Calming the mind, simplifying our lives
- Causal and resultant refuge
- Causal clear light mind
- Causes and conditions for enlightenment
- Causes of the afflictions
- Causes of the afflictions
- Celebrating the Buddha’s life and first teaching
- Challengers and defenders
- Challenging self view
- Challenging the ego
- Chandrakirti’s homage to great compassion
- Changing habits through practice
- Changing our minds and emotional habits
- Changing our wrong conceptions
- Changing relationships
- Chapter 1: Abandoning belief in permanence
- Chapter 1: Buddhism in China and Tibet
- Chapter 1: Early Buddhist history
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 1: Origin and spread of the Buddha’s doctrine
- Chapter 1: Upper rebirth and highest good
- Chapter 1: Verse 1
- Chapter 1: Verse 80
- Chapter 1: Verses 1-10
- Chapter 1: Verses 1-8
- Chapter 1: Verses 10-13
- Chapter 1: Verses 11-24
- Chapter 1: Verses 14-19
- Chapter 1: Verses 17-25
- Chapter 1: Verses 2-3
- Chapter 1: Verses 2-6
- Chapter 1: Verses 20-24
- Chapter 1: Verses 25-26
- Chapter 1: Verses 27-32
- Chapter 1: Verses 33-36
- Chapter 1: Verses 36-38
- Chapter 1: Verses 39-44
- Chapter 1: Verses 4-9
- Chapter 1: Verses 45-48
- Chapter 1: Verses 49-56
- Chapter 1: Verses 57-62
- Chapter 1: Verses 63-68
- Chapter 1: Verses 69-75
- Chapter 1: Verses 7-36
- Chapter 1: Verses 76-80
- Chapter 1: Verses 81-82
- Chapter 1: Verses 82-86
- Chapter 1: Verses 86-92
- Chapter 1: Verses 9-16
- Chapter 1: Verses 93-100
- Chapter 10: Progressing on the path
- Chapter 10: Quiz review part 1
- Chapter 10: Quiz review part 2
- Chapter 10: Quiz review part 3
- Chapter 10: Refuting misconceptions of the self
- Chapter 10: Verse 247
- Chapter 10: Verses 226-228
- Chapter 10: Verses 229–237
- Chapter 10: Verses 236-246
- Chapter 10: Verses 238-246
- Chapter 10: Verses 247-250
- Chapter 10: Verses 248-250
- Chapter 11: Immeasurable love
- Chapter 11: Quiz review part 1
- Chapter 11: Quiz review part 2
- Chapter 11: Refuting truly existent time
- Chapter 11: Summarizing verse
- Chapter 11: The four immeasurables
- Chapter 11: Verses 251-255
- Chapter 11: Verses 251-258
- Chapter 11: Verses 258-262
- Chapter 11: Verses 259-265
- Chapter 11: Verses 263-265
- Chapter 11: Verses 266-274
- Chapter 11: Verses 266-275
- Chapter 12: Bodhicitta
- Chapter 12: Bodhicitta in the Chinese tradition
- Chapter 12: Bodhicitta in the Pali tradition
- Chapter 12: Genuine self-confidence
- Chapter 12: How to generate bodhicitta
- Chapter 12: Quiz review part 1
- Chapter 12: Quiz review part 2
- Chapter 12: Refuting wrong views
- Chapter 12: Verses 277-278
- Chapter 12: Verses 278-280
- Chapter 12: Verses 279-283
- Chapter 12: Verses 281-285
- Chapter 12: Verses 284-290
- Chapter 12: Verses 286-295
- Chapter 12: Verses 291-298
- Chapter 12: Verses 295-300
- Chapter 13: Fortitude through wisdom
- Chapter 13: More on the perfections
- Chapter 13: Perfections unique to the Pali tradition
- Chapter 13: Refuting truly existent sense organs and objects
- Chapter 13: The perfection of fortitude
- Chapter 13: The ten perfections in the Pali tradition
- Chapter 13: The ten perfections in the Sanskrit tradition
- Chapter 13: Verse 301
- Chapter 13: Verse 301-306
- Chapter 13: Verses 307-310
- Chapter 13: Verses 307-311
- Chapter 13: Verses 311-319
- Chapter 13: Verses 312-320
- Chapter 13: Verses 320-324
- Chapter 13: Verses 320-325
- Chapter 14-15: Buddha nature in Chan Buddhism
- Chapter 14: Buddha nature
- Chapter 14: Buddha nature in the Mind-Only school
- Chapter 14: Perspectives on buddha nature
- Chapter 14: Refuting extreme conceptions
- Chapter 14: Verse 344
- Chapter 14: Verses 326-334
- Chapter 14: Verses 327-328
- Chapter 14: Verses 328-337
- Chapter 14: Verses 335-343
- Chapter 14: Verses 338-346
- Chapter 14: Verses 345-347
- Chapter 14: Verses 347-350
- Chapter 14: Verses 348-350
- Chapter 15: Refuting truly existent characteristics
- Chapter 15: Tantra and conclusion
- Chapter 15: Verses 354-358
- Chapter 15: Verses 359-360
- Chapter 15: Verses 361-368
- Chapter 15: Verses 351-359
- Chapter 15: Verses 360-365
- Chapter 15: Verses 366-375
- Chapter 15: Verses 369-375
- Chapter 16: Refuting remaining counter-arguments
- Chapter 16: Verses 376-386
- Chapter 16: Verses 383-394
- Chapter 16: Verses 387-400
- Chapter 16: Verses 395-400
- Chapter 2: Abandoning belief in pleasure
- Chapter 2: Monastic stages of refuge
- Chapter 2: Qualities of refuge and The Three Jewels
- Chapter 2: Refuge in and proof of the existence of the Three Jewels
- Chapter 2: Refuge In the Pali tradition
- Chapter 2: Summary and discussion
- Chapter 2: The stages of buddhahood
- Chapter 2: The Tathagata’s ten powers and six unshared behaviors
- Chapter 2: Verses 1-6
- Chapter 2: Verses 101-108
- Chapter 2: Verses 109-114
- Chapter 2: Verses 115-126
- Chapter 2: Verses 124-136
- Chapter 2: Verses 137-143
- Chapter 2: Verses 144-158
- Chapter 2: Verses 158-171
- Chapter 2: Verses 171-176
- Chapter 2: Verses 177-189
- Chapter 2: Verses 190-200
- Chapter 2: Verses 24-39
- Chapter 2: Verses 26 – 35
- Chapter 2: Verses 36-38
- Chapter 2: Verses 39-50
- Chapter 2: Verses 40-65
- Chapter 2: Verses 7-23
- Chapter 3: Abandoning belief in cleanliness
- Chapter 3: Sanskrit view of the noble eightfold path
- Chapter 3: Stages of the noble eightfold path
- Chapter 3: The Pali view of the noble eightfold path
- Chapter 3: True suffering and its attributes
- Chapter 3: Verses 1-3
- Chapter 3: Verses 10-20
- Chapter 3: Verses 201-213
- Chapter 3: Verses 212-214
- Chapter 3: Verses 214-230
- Chapter 3: Verses 215-223
- Chapter 3: Verses 22-33
- Chapter 3: Verses 231-245
- Chapter 3: Verses 246-258
- Chapter 3: Verses 259-267
- Chapter 3: Verses 268-271
- Chapter 3: Verses 272-280
- Chapter 3: Verses 281-287
- Chapter 3: Verses 287-293
- Chapter 3: Verses 292-300
- Chapter 3: Verses 4-10
- Chapter 3: Verses 51-66
- Chapter 3: Verses 64-72
- Chapter 3: Verses 67–74
- Chapter 4 review: Verses 365-398
- Chapter 4: Abandoning pride
- Chapter 4: Ethical conduct and the monastic community
- Chapter 4: Higher trainings and precepts
- Chapter 4: Verses 1-8
- Chapter 4: Verses 17-26
- Chapter 4: Verses 301-311
- Chapter 4: Verses 311-322
- Chapter 4: Verses 322-328
- Chapter 4: Verses 327-339
- Chapter 4: Verses 339-348
- Chapter 4: Verses 349-355
- Chapter 4: Verses 356-363
- Chapter 4: Verses 364-369
- Chapter 4: Verses 370-381
- Chapter 4: Verses 382-391
- Chapter 4: Verses 392-400
- Chapter 4: Verses 85-92
- Chapter 4: Verses 85–89
- Chapter 4: Verses 9-16
- Chapter 4: Verses 90–100
- Chapter 4: Verses 93-100
- Chapter 5: Concentration: Sanskrit tradition
- Chapter 5: Concentration: Pali teachings
- Chapter 5: Concentration: Process, barriers, and signs along the way
- Chapter 5: Concentration: Sanskrit and Chinese traditions
- Chapter 5: Engaging in the bodhisattva deeds
- Chapter 5: Higher training in concentration
- Chapter 5: Verse 440
- Chapter 5: Verses 1-16
- Chapter 5: Verses 101-102
- Chapter 5: Verses 103–106
- Chapter 5: Verses 107-112
- Chapter 5: Verses 107-114
- Chapter 5: Verses 113-117
- Chapter 5: Verses 115-122
- Chapter 5: Verses 117-125
- Chapter 5: Verses 17-33
- Chapter 5: Verses 34-54
- Chapter 5: Verses 401-405
- Chapter 5: Verses 405-412
- Chapter 5: Verses 413-423
- Chapter 5: Verses 424-433
- Chapter 5: Verses 434-437
- Chapter 5: Verses 438-439
- Chapter 5: Verses 441-446
- Chapter 5: Verses 447-452
- Chapter 5: Verses 453-458
- Chapter 5: Verses 459-460
- Chapter 5: Verses 461-462
- Chapter 5: Verses 463-466
- Chapter 5: Verses 466-467
- Chapter 5: Verses 468-470
- Chapter 5: Verses 471-475
- Chapter 5: Verses 476-479
- Chapter 5: Verses 477-484
- Chapter 5: Verses 484-489
- Chapter 5: Verses 488-491
- Chapter 5: Verses 491-492
- Chapter 5: Verses 493-500
- Chapter 6 Verses 46-55
- Chapter 6 Verses 56-72
- Chapter 6 Verses 73-82
- Chapter 6 Verses 83-133
- Chapter 6-7: Review and overview
- Chapter 6: Abandoning disturbing emotions
- Chapter 6: Mindfulness of the body and mind
- Chapter 6: The 37 aids to awakening
- Chapter 6: The four establishments of mindfulness
- Chapter 6: Verses 1-3
- Chapter 6: Verses 1-7
- Chapter 6: Verses 10-12
- Chapter 6: Verses 112-118
- Chapter 6: Verses 119-126
- Chapter 6: Verses 12-16
- Chapter 6: Verses 127-134
- Chapter 6: Verses 127–135
- Chapter 6: Verses 131-135
- Chapter 6: Verses 135–140
- Chapter 6: Verses 136-138
- Chapter 6: Verses 138-143
- Chapter 6: Verses 141–150
- Chapter 6: Verses 144-149
- Chapter 6: Verses 17-26
- Chapter 6: Verses 22-31
- Chapter 6: Verses 27-38
- Chapter 6: Verses 31-45
- Chapter 6: Verses 39-51
- Chapter 6: Verses 4-9
- Chapter 6: Verses 52-65
- Chapter 6: Verses 66-86
- Chapter 6: Verses 8-21
- Chapter 6: Verses 87-97
- Chapter 6: Verses 98-111
- Chapter 7: Abandoning attachment to sense objects
- Chapter 7: Emptiness and selflessness
- Chapter 7: Refuting the inherently existent self
- Chapter 7: The four extremes of arising
- Chapter 7: The object of negation
- Chapter 7: Verses 1-15
- Chapter 7: Verses 15-30
- Chapter 7: Verses 151-158
- Chapter 7: Verses 158-165
- Chapter 7: Verses 159-170
- Chapter 7: Verses 166-172
- Chapter 7: Verses 31-49
- Chapter 7: Verses 50-58
- Chapter 7: Verses 59-76
- Chapter 8: Dependent arising
- Chapter 8: Levels of dependence
- Chapter 8: Self and emptiness
- Chapter 8: Thoroughly preparing the student
- Chapter 8: Twelve links of dependent arising
- Chapter 8: Verses 1-3
- Chapter 8: Verses 1–6
- Chapter 8: Verses 176-178
- Chapter 8: Verses 178-184
- Chapter 8: Verses 179-183
- Chapter 8: Verses 183-184
- Chapter 8: Verses 184-187
- Chapter 8: Verses 185-200
- Chapter 8: Verses 188-190
- Chapter 8: Verses 190-191
- Chapter 8: Verses 192-194
- Chapter 8: Verses 195-196
- Chapter 8: Verses 197-200
- Chapter 8: Verses 4-7
- Chapter 9: Quiz answers and discussion
- Chapter 9: Refuting permanent functional phenomena
- Chapter 9: The union of serenity and insight
- Chapter 9: Verses 202-211
- Chapter 9: Verses 205-217
- Chapter 9: Verses 212-218
- Chapter 9: Verses 218-223
- Chapter 9: Verses 219-225
- Chapters 1-10: Review
- Chapters 1-2: Verses 25-34
- Chapters 1-3: Review
- Chapters 11 & 12: Four immeasurables and bodhicitta
- Chapters 11-12: Verses 275-277
- Chapters 12-13: Verses 299-301
- Chapters 13-14: Verses 325-326
- Chapters 2-3: Verses 45-52
- Chapters 3-4: Verses 73-77
- Chapters 3-4: Verses 75-85
- Chapters 4-5: Review
- Chapters 5-6: Verses 123–126
- Chapters 6-7: Verses 150-152
- Chapters 7-8: Verses 171-177
- Chapters 7-8: Verses 173-176
- Chapters 8-9: Verses 200-201
- Chapters 9-10: Verses 224-226
- Characteristics of karma
- Chasing rainbows
- Checking our meditation experiences
- Cherish spiritual teachers
- Cherishing others
- Cherishing our enemies
- Childish sentient beings
- Choosing your debate partner
- Clarifying misunderstood teachings
- Classification of objects
- Classification of phenomena
- Classifications of karma
- Cleaning up our relationships
- Cleansing the mind of ignorance
- Clear wishes for our final moments
- Clinging and renewed existence
- Closeness to others
- Clusters of afflictions
- Colleagues and clients
- Collective karma
- Commentary on the author’s introduction
- Commentary on the Heart Sutra
- Commitments and monotony
- Commitments of aspiring bodhicitta
- Common and uncommon afflictions
- Common guidelines and maintaining proper refuge
- Common precepts related to the Three Jewels
- Comparing ourselves with others
- Comparison of God and Buddha
- Comparisons of consciousnesses
- Compassion and the determination to be free
- Compassion as an antidote to anger
- Compassion as cause of bodhisattvas
- Compassion conjoined with wisdom
- Compassion fatigue
- Compassion for difficult people
- Compassion for self and others
- Compassion in action
- Compassion in living and dying
- Compassion is of utmost importance
- Compassion seeing emptiness
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Competition and exchanging self with others
- Complacency, agitation
- Complaining: a favorite pastime
- Complementary nature of the perfections
- Concealment, lethargy, laziness
- Concentration and the five absorption factors
- Concentration and wisdom
- Concentration and wisdom
- Concentration, jhanas, and samadhi
- Concentration, knowledge & vision and disenchantment
- Concentration, wisdom, and spiritual teachers
- Conception of “I”
- Conceptual and non-conceptual consciousnesses
- Conceptual and nonconceptual minds
- Conceptuality
- Concluding review
- Concluding teaching
- Conditions for developing serenity
- Conditions for practice
- Conflicting views of reality
- Confronting and averting afflictions
- Confusion within tantra
- Connecting from the heart in an age of loneliness
- Conscientiousness
- Conscientiousness
- Consciousness
- Consequences
- Constructive actions and the weight of karma
- Consumerism and the environment
- Consumerism and the environment
- Contemplating causality
- Contemplating death
- Contemplating death
- Contemplating death
- Contemplating impermanence
- Contemplating karma and its effects
- Contemplating specific aspects of karma
- Contemplating the eight types of dukkha, part 1
- Contemplating the eight types of dukkha, part 2
- Contemplating the lower realms
- Contemplating the seven limbs
- Contemplating the value of our precious human rebirth
- Continuation of the discussion of karma
- Conventional and clear light mind
- Conventional and ultimate analysis
- Conventional and ultimate bodhicitta
- Conventional and ultimate nature
- Conventional and ultimate truths
- Conventional consciousness
- Correct assumer
- Correct reasons and reliable cognizers
- Correct reasons in a syllogism
- Correct signs practice and review
- Correctly understanding the point
- Counteracting anger
- Counteracting habitual mental patterns
- Counteracting laziness
- Counteracting the hindrances
- Counterforces to the afflictions
- Courage in the face of harm
- Courage to practice
- Courageous Compassion
- Coveting, malice, wrong views
- Covetousness and malice
- Craving
- Craving and clinging
- Craving and clinging at the time of death
- Creating a happier future
- Creating harmony with others
- Creating our experience
- Creating our future
- Creating our world: dependent arising
- Creating positive experiences for ourselves and others
- Creating the causes for a precious human life
- Creating the causes for bodhicitta in future rebirths
- Creating the causes for good results
- Creating the causes for happiness
- Creating the causes for happiness
- Creating the causes of happiness
- Creating the causes of happiness
- Crises in monastic life
- Cultivating a healthy sense of self
- Cultivating altruism and bodhicitta
- Cultivating bodhicitta
- Cultivating clear communication
- Cultivating compassion
- Cultivating compassion
- Cultivating conventional bodhicitta
- Cultivating excellent qualities
- Cultivating faith in the Three Jewels
- Cultivating joy and rest
- Cultivating love and compassion
- Cultivating love and compassion, a review
- Cultivating our motivation
- Cultivating peace from the inside out
- Cultivating positive habits
- Cultivating positive states of mind
- Cultivating serenity
- Cultivating serenity: The five faults and their antidotes
- Cultivating the correct view
- Cultivating the correct view
- Cultivating ultimate bodhicitta
- Daily practices for time of death
- Day 1: Questions and answers
- Day 1: Questions and answers
- Day 2: Questions and answers
- Day 2: Questions and answers
- Day 3: Questions and answers
- Dealing with habitual emotional patterns
- Death and Dharma practice
- Death and impermanence
- Death and impermanence
- Death and impermanence
- Death and refuge
- Death and the bardo
- Death and the defects of samsara
- Death and the intermediate state
- Death is definite
- Death is definite but time is uncertain
- Death time and our body
- Death time and possessions
- Death time and relationships
- Debate in action
- Debate practice continued
- Debate review
- Debating impermanence
- Debating with anger
- Declaring my faults & praising others
- Decreasing miserliness and increasing generosity
- Dedicating our merit
- Deepening love and compassion
- Defining compassion and self-compassion
- Defining the mind
- Definite and indefinite karma
- Definite and indefinite karma
- Definition of pramana
- Definitions
- Definitions, divisions, and consequences
- Dependence on parts and reasoning of dependent arising
- Dependent arising
- Dependent arising
- Dependent arising
- Dependent arising and bodhicitta
- Dependent arising and emptiness
- Dependent arising and emptiness
- Dependent arising and emptiness
- Dependent arising and our true nature
- Dependent arising and realism
- Dependent arising in the Pali tradition
- Dependent arising: Links 1-3
- Dependent arising: Links 4-12
- Dependent designation
- Dependent designation
- Dependent designation
- Detaching from the eight worldly concerns
- Determining spiritual experiences
- Determining to practice patience
- Developing a Dharma mind
- Developing a direct realization of emptiness
- Developing a kind heart
- Developing bodhicitta
- Developing bodhicitta
- Developing calm abiding
- Developing calm abiding
- Developing concentration takes practice
- Developing conviction in karma
- Developing equanimity
- Developing equanimity
- Developing equanimity
- Developing equanimity
- Developing insight into emptiness
- Developing the qualities of a buddha
- Developing three kinds of compassion
- Dharma and Sangha Jewels in depth
- Dharma in a consumer society
- Dharma in daily life: Questions and answers with Buddhist youths
- Dharma refuge
- Dharmakirti’s “Pramanavarttika”: Introduction
- Different kinds of refuge
- Different views of selflessness
- Dignaga and Dharmakirti’s intention
- Diligence and concentration
- Direct perceivers
- Direct perceivers: sense and mental
- Disadvantages of anger
- Disadvantages of discarding bodhicitta
- Disadvantages of improper reliance
- Disadvantages of miserliness
- Disadvantages of not thinking of death
- Disadvantages of self-centeredness
- Disadvantages of self-centeredness
- Disadvantages of the afflictions
- Disadvantages of the eight worldly concerns
- Disadvantages of the self-centered attitude
- Disagreement and conflict
- Discerning virtuous from nonvirtuous actions
- Discovering the source of problems
- Discrimination, intention and contact
- Discussion on kindness of others
- Discussion on Madhyamaka philosophies
- Discussion on relationships
- Discussion: Emptiness, ethical conduct, and mindfulness
- Discussion: Emptiness, ignorance, and mental states
- Discussion: Mind-only school
- Discussion: Perceptions and existence
- Disentangling our identities
- Disintegratedness of actions and rebirth
- Dispelling all suffering
- Dispositions, motivations, and practices
- Distinguishing features of the Three Jewels
- Distracted by the causes for pain
- Diversity and tolerance
- Divisions and illustrations
- Divisions of bodhisattva grounds
- Divisions of selfless: Abstract composites
- Divisions of selfless: Consciousness
- Divisions of selfless: Forms
- Divisions of selfless: Phenomena
- Divisions of the selfless
- Divisions of the selfless
- Divisive speech
- Do I really want to change?
- Do not retaliate
- Does everyone need to become a monk or nun?
- Don’t Believe Everything You Think
- Don’t let success go to your head
- Don’t misunderstand Shantideva
- Dormant and manifest consciousnesses
- Doubt
- Doubt and correctly assuming consciousness
- Dwelling in the Vibrant Warmth of Bodhicitta
- Dying without fear and regret
- E=MC²
- Early Buddhism in Sri Lanka
- Early Buddhist schools
- Ego, A Tibetan Buddhist perspective
- Eight excellent qualities of sangha jewel
- Eight excellent qualities of the buddha jewel
- Eight excellent qualities of the dharma jewel
- Eight fully ripened excellent qualities
- Eight verses of mind training: Verse 1
- Eight verses of mind training: Verse 2
- Eight verses of mind training: Verses 3-6
- Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
- Eight verses of thought transformation
- Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
- Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 1-2
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 1-3
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 3-6
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 4-5
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 7-8
- Eight worldly concerns
- Eightfold noble path
- Eighty-four thousand afflictions
- Emotions and klesas
- Emptiness
- Emptiness and bodhicitta
- Emptiness and buddha nature
- Emptiness and compassion
- Emptiness and compassion
- Emptiness and impermanence
- Emptiness and the object of negation, part 1
- Emptiness and the object of negation, part 2
- Emptiness and the object of negation, part 3
- Emptiness and the self
- Emptiness does not mean nothingness
- Emptiness in different tenet systems
- Emptiness in everyday life
- Emptiness in everyday life
- Emptiness is in everything around us
- Emptiness of causes and their effects
- Emptiness of phenomena
- Emptiness of self
- Emptiness, its nature, its purpose, and its meaning
- Emptiness: Everything depends on our mind
- Emptiness: Questions and answers
- Enacting others’ welfare
- Ending the pity party
- Engaged Buddhism and political involvement
- Enough childish behavior!
- Entering the great vehicle
- Entrance to the Buddhist path
- Environmental results of positive actions
- Epistemological requirements
- Equality of samsara and nirvana
- Equality of samsara and nirvana
- Equalizing and exchanging self and other
- Equalizing and exchanging self and other
- Equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Equalizing self and other
- Equalizing self and other ultimately
- Equalizing self and others
- Equalizing self and others
- Equalizing self and others
- Equalizing self and others
- Equalizing self and others
- Equalizing self and others
- Equanimity
- Equanimity
- Equanimity and bodhicitta
- Equanimity and bodhicitta
- Equanimity and the kindness of others
- Equanimity—freedom from bias
- Equanimity: Changing our conceptions of others
- Equanimity: The foundation for bodhicitta
- Equanimity: The foundation of bodhicitta
- Eroding self-centeredness
- Essence of Refined Gold
- Establishing a daily practice
- Establishing selflessness
- Establishing selflessness
- Ethical conduct and benefitting sentient beings
- Ethical conduct and emptiness
- Ethical conduct and karma
- Ethical conduct and precepts
- Ethical conduct review
- Ethics and precepts
- Ethics and right livelihood
- Ethics and the other perfections
- Ethics, concentration, and wisdom
- Evaluating the authenticity of teachings
- Everyone wants happiness
- Exaggerated statements?
- Examining conceptual mind and needs
- Examining our obstacles
- Examples illustrating rebirth
- Examples of how we cycle
- Examples of mutual dependence
- Examples to understand rebirth
- Excellent causes and results of buddhahood
- Excellent qualities can be built up cumulatively
- Excellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
- Excellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
- Excellent qualities can be enhanced
- Excellent qualities of the dharma and sangha
- Exchanging our bodies with others
- Exchanging self and others
- Exchanging self and others
- Exchanging self and others to develop bodhicitta
- Exchanging self for others
- Excitement and application
- Existence of person and obscurations
- Existence of the “I”
- Expectations, fairness, and compassion
- Experiencing the results of karma
- Explanation of the middle way view
- Explicit and implicit presentations of the 12 links
- Exploring Buddhism
- Exploring compassion
- Exploring karma
- Exploring the Buddha’s teachings
- Extensive giving
- Facing an ethical crisis
- Facing blame
- Facing harm with fortitude
- Facing our faults
- Facsimile direct perceiver and inferential cognizers
- Facsimiles of direct perceivers
- Factors causing afflictions to arise
- Factors that determine the weight of karma
- Faith
- Faith based on reason and conviction
- Faith or confidence
- Faith, purification, and merit
- Fame and wealth can corrupt your mind
- Far-reaching attitude of ethics
- Far-reaching attitude of generosity
- Far-reaching ethical conduct
- Far-reaching fortitude
- Far-reaching generosity
- Far-reaching generosity and ethical conduct
- Far-reaching joyous effort
- Far-reaching joyous effort
- Far-reaching meditative stabilization and wisdom
- Far-reaching wisdom
- Faults of the mental afflictions
- Faulty conceptualization
- Favorable qualities for Dharma practice
- Feeling
- Feeling empathy
- Feelings
- Feelings and the ethical dimension of afflictions
- Fetters and pollutants
- Final and provisional refuges
- Finding happiness through wisdom
- Finding our spiritual guide
- Finding the self
- Finding true happiness
- Finding your purpose in life
- First bodhisattva ground: The Very Joyful
- First ground of bodhisattva superiors
- First-link ignorance
- Five absorptions factors in brief
- Five faults to serenity
- Five hindrances to concentration
- Five paths, buddhas, and arhats
- Five powers at death
- Five powers in daily life
- Five precepts for virtuous conduct
- Flattening our pride
- Following in the Buddha’s Footsteps
- Following in the Buddha’s Footsteps
- Forgetting the object of meditation
- Formally taking refuge
- Formative action
- Forming a correct syllogism
- Fortitude and diligence
- Fortitude and religious intolerance
- Fortitude for those who cause harm
- Fortitude of enduring suffering
- Fortitude of practicing the Dharma
- Fortitude review
- Forward pervasion
- Forward system proving the Buddha as authority
- Four attributes of true cessations
- Four attributes of true duhkha
- Four attributes of true origins
- Four attributes of true paths
- Four buddha bodies
- Four kinds of direct perceivers
- Four kinds of self-confidence, ten powers
- Four noble truths: An overview
- Four opponent powers
- Four opponent powers
- Four opponent powers: Determination to refrain
- Four opponent powers: Regret
- Four opponent powers: Remedial action
- Four possibilities
- Four puzzling points
- Four seals, obstacles, and enemies of bodhicitta
- Four truths and three levels of practitioners
- Four types of nirvana
- Four-point contemplation of karma
- Freedom from cyclic existence
- Freedom from the Four Fixations
- Freedoms and fortunes of a precious human life
- Freedoms and fortunes of this life
- Freeing ourselves and others
- Freeing ourselves from negativity
- Freeing ourselves from samsara
- Friendship
- From serenity to the jhanas
- Full ordination for Tibetan Buddhist nuns
- Functioning things
- Fundamental and Universal Vehicles
- Fundamental Vehicle grounds and paths
- Fundamentals of Buddhism
- Gambling and other addictions
- Gathering disciples and meditative stability
- Gelug
- Gelugpa-Kagyu Mahamudra lineage
- Gender equality and the future of Buddhism
- General advice for Dharma practice
- General characteristics of karma
- General characteristics of karma
- General characteristics of karma
- General characteristics of karma
- Generating bodhicitta
- Generating bodhicitta
- Generating love and compassion
- Generating regret
- Generating renunciation
- Generating wisdom
- Generosity according to the four points
- Generosity of the heart
- Generosity, ethics and patience
- Getting in touch with dukkha
- Getting what we don’t want
- Give your mind something virtuous to do with suffering
- Giving our body and the Dharma
- Giving our virtue
- Giving ourselves to others
- Giving to all sentient beings
- Giving to others
- Giving to those who harm us
- Giving up attachment
- Giving up bad friends
- Giving up clinging to this life
- Giving up desire
- Giving up grasping
- Giving up worldly concerns, gaining wisdom
- Goals and obscurations
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Aspiring Bodhicitta
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Birth, aging, sickness, and death
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Bodhicitta
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Cultivating compassion
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Developing conviction in karma
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Equanimity
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Equanimity and equalizing self and others
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Exchanging self for others
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Homage to compassion
- Gomchen lamrim review: How to rely on the teachings and teachers
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Karma
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Karma in daily life
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Precious human life
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Refuge in the Three Jewels
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Reliance on a spiritual mentor
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Remembering death brings life to our practice
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Seven-point cause and effect instruction
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Seven-point cause and effect instruction continued
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Specific aspects of karma
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The 37 harmonies
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The actual meditation session
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The afflictions
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The causes for taking refuge
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The importance of remembering death
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The six preparatory practices
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The teachings, teachers, and students
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The truth of dukkha
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Two meditations on death
- Gomchen Lamrim study guide
- Good friendships
- Good Karma: A bodhisattva’s courage
- Good Karma: A short overview of the Buddhist worldview
- Good Karma: Buddha nature
- Good Karma: Dealing with betrayal of trust
- Good Karma: Determining to maintain good character wherever we are
- Good Karma: Embracing hardship for others’ sake
- Good Karma: Facing hardship for the Dharma
- Good Karma: Helpful and unhelpful friends
- Good Karma: Intro to karma and its effects
- Good Karma: Karma and its effects
- Good Karma: Karmic consequences of the ten nonvirtues
- Good Karma: Offering our help to all beings
- Good Karma: Q&A on karma
- Good Karma: Results of transgressing ethical commitments
- Good Karma: Serving others instead of exploiting them
- Good Karma: Solving problems at their root
- Good Karma: The causes of happiness and suffering
- Good Karma: The eight worldly concerns
- Good Karma: The four characteristics of karma
- Good Karma: The importance of motivation
- Good Karma: We are not inherently selfish
- Gradual progress and cultivating bodhicitta
- Great compassion
- Great compassion and the great resolve
- Great resolve and bodhicitta
- Great resolve and bodhicitta
- Great value and rarity of a precious rebirth
- Guarding the mind
- Guided meditation on cyclic existence
- Guided meditation on death and impermanence
- Guided meditation on precious human rebirth
- Guided meditation on spiritual mentors
- Guided meditation on the value of a precious human rebirth
- Guided meditation on Verse 7
- Guided meditation: imagining our death
- Guided meditation: Taking refuge in the Three Jewels
- Guided meditation: The four characteristics of karma
- Guided meditation: The lower realms and refuge
- Guided nine-point death meditation
- Guidelines after taking refuge
- Guidelines for each of the Three Jewels
- Guidelines for the practice of refuge
- Happiness through renunciation
- Harsh speech and idle talk
- Harsh words
- Having a flexible mind
- Having a kind heart
- Having a steady mind
- Having-ceased
- Hearer’s path and nirvana
- Hearer’s path of accumulation
- Hearer’s path of preparation, seeing, and meditation
- Hearers and solitary realizers
- Hearers, solitary realizers, bodhisattvas
- Hearing, thinking, meditating
- Heart advice for dealing with difficulties
- Heart-warming love
- Heartwarming love
- Help and harm
- Helping others feel safe through compassion
- Hidden phenomena and manifest phenomena
- Higher ethical codes and making mistakes
- Higher training in ethics
- Hindrances to concentration: Desire and ill will
- Hindrances to concentration: Doubt
- Hindrances to concentration: Dullness
- Hindrances to concentration: Dullness and drowsiness
- Hindrances to concentration: Remorse
- Hindrances to concentration: Restlessness
- History of the lamrim
- History of the thought training teachings
- Holding onto a position because of pride
- Holding others as supreme
- Holding others dear
- Holding wrong ethics, wrong views as supreme
- Holy objects, rebirth, and compassion
- Homage to Compassion
- Homage to great compassion
- How afflictions manifest
- How Buddhism differs from psychology
- How do we exist?
- How intoxicants affect mindfulness and introspective awareness
- How karma influences our lives
- How karma is accumulated
- How our conditioning affects us
- How purification works
- How rebirth works
- How Tara helps us
- How teachings should be studied and taught
- How the afflictions arise
- How the afflictions deceive us
- How the afflictions harm us
- How the bodhisattva vows are useful
- How things appear and how they exist
- How things exist
- How to act when afflictions arise
- How to approach the Dharma
- How to be a 21st-century Buddhist
- How to become a Buddhist monk or nun
- How to develop wisdom
- How to explain the Dharma
- How to greet a teacher and make offerings
- How to listen to and explain the Dharma teachings
- How to listen to teachings
- How to listen to the Dharma
- How to listen to the Dharma
- How to meditate on insight
- How to practice ethical conduct
- How to purify bad actions by means of the four powers
- How to recognize or identify our afflictions
- How to relate to a spiritual mentor
- How to relate to a spiritual teacher
- How to rely on a spiritual teacher
- How to rely on spiritual mentors in thought and deed
- How to see the guru
- How to see the spiritual mentor
- How to see yourself as you really are
- How to study the teachings
- How to study, reflect, and meditate
- How to take full advantage of a precious human rebirth
- How to take refuge in the Three Jewels
- How to tell if a Buddhist teacher has the right qualities
- How to think like a bodhisattva
- I, me, myself and mine
- Identifying 18 freedoms and endowments, their great value
- Identifying afflictive ignorance
- Identifying attachment
- Identifying inherent existence
- Identifying the cause of a future life’s body
- Identifying the causes of samsara
- Identifying the person
- Identifying the real source of our difficulties
- Identifying types of objects based on cognition
- Ignorance and karma
- Ignorance, afflictions, and emptiness
- Ignorance, doubt, and afflicted views
- Ignorance, doubt, and afflictive views
- Illusion or illusion like
- Illusion-like appearance
- Illusion-like appearances
- Illusion-like appearances
- Imagining our death and pacifying distractions
- Imagining your death
- Imperceptible forms
- Impermanence and suffering
- Impermanence, dukkha and selflessness
- Impermanent and permanent phenomena
- Importance of a spiritual teacher
- Importance of motivation in Buddhist practice
- Imputations by thought
- Imputed and established natures
- In Praise of Great Compassion
- In praise of great compassion
- Inappropriate attention
- Inattentive perceivers
- Inattentive perceptions, doubt, and wrong consciousnesses
- Infallible effects of karma
- Inferential cognizers and direct perceivers
- Inferential cognizers and obscured phenomena
- Influencing and benefitting others
- Ingratitude
- Inner peace, world peace
- Inquiry and faith
- Inspiring the heart on the path
- Instructions for enhancing the collection of merit
- Integrating a good motivation into our practice and daily lives
- Integrating emptiness
- Integration of sutra and tantra in Tibetan Buddhism
- Integrity and consideration for others
- Intention karma and intended karma
- Intention, karmic paths and afflictions
- Internal matter
- Interrelationship of the lamrim topics
- Intoxicants and celibacy
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Introduction and homage
- Introduction to Buddhism
- Introduction to Buddhism
- Introduction to Buddhist practice and community living
- Introduction to Buddhist tenets
- Introduction to direct perceivers
- Introduction to lamrim
- Introduction to meditation
- Introduction to mind and mental factors
- Introduction to monastery life
- Introduction to the Four Establishments of Mindfulness
- Introduction to the lamrim teachings
- Introduction to the nine-point death meditation
- Introduction to the tenets
- Introduction to the text
- Introduction to the two truths
- Introduction: Cultivating bodhicitta daily
- Intrusive conditions and incompatible propensities
- Investigating anger
- Investigating the self
- Is liberation possible?
- Is liberation possible?
- Is our practice going in the right direction?
- Is the Buddha’s word always spoken by the Buddha?
- Is what we think true?
- Isolation of body and mind
- It’s unreasonable to be angry
- Jealousy
- Jigta
- Jonang
- Joy and rest as supports for joyous effort
- Joyful effort
- Joyfully engaging in virtue
- Joyous effort
- Joyous effort
- Joyous effort and concentration
- Joyous effort and pliancy
- Joyous effort review
- Joyous effort, concentration & wisdom
- Joyous effort, ignorance, and laziness
- Joyous effort, not perfection
- Justifying our anger
- Kagyu
- Karma
- Karma and compassion: Part 1 of 2
- Karma and compassion: Part 2 of 2
- Karma and current ethical issues
- Karma and current ethical issues continued
- Karma and decision-making
- Karma and emptiness
- Karma and its effects
- Karma and its effects
- Karma and our environment
- Karma and the three lower realms
- Karma and the wish for freedom
- Karma and virtue
- Karma and your life
- Karma and your life: Questions and answers, part 1
- Karma and your life: Questions and answers, part 2
- Karma and your life: Questions and answers, part 3
- Karma and your life: Taking refuge and precepts
- Karma and your life: The four characteristics of karma
- Karma and your life: The results of karma
- Karma in samsara and beyond
- Karma is not cast in concrete
- Karma that ripens at death
- Karma, impermanence, and cognition
- Karma, purification, and precepts
- Karma, samsara, and dukkha
- Karma: The boomerang effect
- Karmic results
- Keeping the promise of bodhicitta
- Key strategies for Buddhist youth leaders
- Kindness and karma
- Kindness and the benefits of engaged bodhicitta
- Kindness towards ourselves and others
- Kindness vitamins: An interview
- Kinds of duhkha
- Know your mind: A general explanation of afflictions
- Know your mind: Direct perceivers and inferential cognizers
- Know your mind: Introduction to minds and mental factors
- Know your mind: Object-ascertaining and virtuous mental factors
- Know your mind: Omnipresent mental factors
- Know your mind: Perception and conception
- Know your mind: Seven types of mind and awareness
- Know your mind: Six root afflictions
- Know your mind: The twenty auxiliary afflictions
- Know your mind: Virtuous mental factors
- Know your mind: What is the mind?
- Lack of faith, forgetfulness, non-introspective alertness
- Lama TsongKhapa Day talk
- Lama Zopa on emptiness
- Lamrim and six preparatory practices
- Lamrim outline (overview)
- Lamrim outline: Advanced
- Lamrim outline: Foundation
- Lamrim outline: Initial
- Lamrim outline: Intermediate
- Lamrim outline: Introduction
- Lamrim outline: Preparatory practices
- Last six of the unshared qualities
- Laxity and excitement
- Laziness that interferes with practice
- Leading with a compassionate motivation
- Lesson from an incarcerated person
- Let go of the eight worldly concerns
- Let’s debate!
- Letting go of identities
- Letting go of the eight worldly concerns
- Letting go of worldly concerns
- Levels of mind
- Liberation and tenet schools
- Liberation from dukkha
- Life in samsara
- Life without sila is like a car without brakes
- Like a bucket in a well
- Like gold in filth
- Like illusions
- Lineage of mind training practices
- Living a life that matters
- Living a meaningful life
- Living an authentic life
- Living compassion
- Living in compassion
- Living in the jaws of death
- Living in the joy of the Dharma
- Living with an awareness of impermanence and death
- Living with integrity
- Living with loss
- Logic and debate in Buddhism
- Loneliness in a time of connectivity
- Long refuge and precepts ceremony
- Look, Mommy, that lady has no hair!
- Looking at death and dealing with loss
- Looking at rebirth
- Looking beyond this life
- Looking for the heart
- Love and compassion
- Love and compassion
- Love without expectations
- Love, compassion, and total commitment
- Love, compassion, and wisdom
- Mahamudra in India and Tibet
- Mahayana grounds and paths
- Mahayana path introduction
- Mahayana path of accumulation
- Mahayana path of meditation
- Mahayana path of preparation
- Mahayana path of seeing
- Maintaining a steady practice
- Making decisions
- Making effort with joy
- Making effort, joyfully
- Making flawless syllogisms
- Making life meaningful
- Making offerings and precious human rebirth
- Making requests, receiving blessings, and gaining realizations
- Making room for the Dharma—the eight worldly concerns
- Making sensuous offerings to the Buddhas
- Making wise choices in life
- Making wise decisions
- Manjushri, the special deity of debate
- Many traditions, one teacher
- Mapping the Buddhist path onto combating the afflictions
- Marriage: helping each other grow
- Meaning and benefits of fortitude
- Meaningful Dharma practice
- Meditating on death and impermanence
- Meditating on emptiness
- Meditating on emptiness using the four-point analysis
- Meditating on emptiness: The four point analysis, part 1
- Meditating on emptiness: The four point analysis, part 2
- Meditating on no self
- Meditating on suffering
- Meditating on suffering (continued)
- Meditating on the 10 destructive actions
- Meditating on the media
- Meditating on the results of karma
- Meditating on three types of compassion
- Meditating to generate bodhicitta
- Meditating to generate love and compassion
- Meditation and review on equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Meditation and review on equanimity
- Meditation and review on love, compassion and bodhicitta
- Meditation and review on seeing the kindness of all beings
- Meditation and the Buddhist approach
- Meditation in the Tibetan tradition
- Meditation on death
- Meditation on emptiness
- Meditation on equanimity
- Meditation on giving our body
- Meditation on love
- Meditation on our precious human life
- Meditation on taking the bodhisattva vow
- Meditation on the initial scope of the lamrim
- Meditation outline for “The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”
- Meditation practice
- Meditation practice: Observing the breath
- Meditation session outline
- Meditation: Cultivating serenity
- Meditation: Searching for the self
- Meditation: Space-like emptiness
- Meditation: The true nature of the self
- Meditations on impermanence and death
- Meditative stability
- Meditative stability and wisdom
- Meet people where they are
- Meeting ourselves with compassion
- Mental consciousness
- Mental non-virtues
- Mental pathways of virtue
- Mental states and objects of knowledge
- Mental states and situations that are troublesome, a review
- Merely imputed New Year’s Eve
- Methods to cultivate compassion
- Middle way school and focusing your mind
- Mind and emotions
- Mind and limitless good qualities
- Mind and motivation
- Mind and rebirth
- Mind and the external world
- Mind as the source of happiness and pain
- Mind basis of all
- Mind is the creator of our experience
- Mind is the source of happiness
- Mind is the source of our experience
- Mind training
- Mind training for a modern world
- Mind-generation with Venerable Sangye Khadro, Part 1
- Mind-generation with Venerable Sangye Khadro, Part 2
- Mind-only school
- Mind-only tenet school: Part 1
- Mind-only tenet school: Part 2
- Mind-only tenet school: Part 3
- Mind, rebirth, and liberation
- Mindfulness
- Mindfulness and antidotes to hindrances
- Mindfulness and fear
- Mindfulness and introspective awareness
- Mindfulness and introspective awareness
- Mindfulness for ethics, concentration, and wisdom
- Mindfulness of body and feelings
- Mindfulness of death, faults and benefits
- Mindfulness of ethical conduct
- Mindfulness of mind and phenomena
- Miscarriages and karma
- Misperception of how things appear
- Monk chat: Questions about how to practice
- Monk chat: Questions about reality and attaining liberation
- More debate practice
- More on joyous effort
- More on seeds and latencies
- More on the five lay precepts
- More on the ten paths of nonvirtue today
- More precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel
- More qualities of the Buddha
- More refuge meditation topics
- Motivation and choosing our path
- Motivation and karma
- Motivation in practicing virtue
- Motivation to practice
- Motivations behind giving
- Moving towards our spiritual goals
- Mutual appreciation between traditions
- Mutually inclusive phenomena
- My religion is kindness
- Nagarjuna’s analysis of arising
- Name and form
- Natural nirvana and actual nirvana
- Naturally negative versus proscribed actions
- Nature of the mind
- Negating inherent existence
- Nine similes for Tathāgatagarbha
- Nine stages of sustained attention
- Nine steps to gaining serenity
- Nine-point death meditation
- Nine-point death meditation
- Nine-point death meditation
- Nine-point meditation for equalizing self and others
- Nine-point meditation on death
- Nirvana
- Nirvana as the object of meditation
- Nirvana in the Pali tradition
- Nirvana is true peace
- No real owner of suffering
- Nominally existent self
- Non-attachment
- Non-attachment and non-hatred
- Non-harmfulness and equanimity
- Non-hatred and non-bewilderment
- Non-revelatory forms and vows
- Nonassociated compositional factors
- Nonassociated compositional factors that are not persons
- Nonexistents
- Not diminishing ourselves
- Nothing is to be removed
- Nyingma
- Object ascertaining and virtuous mental factors
- Object ascertaining mental factors
- Object possessors and seven types of cognizers
- Objects of attachment and antidotes
- Objects of great compassion
- Objects of meditation
- Objects of meditation
- Objects of meditation and deterrents
- Objects of meditation: Pali tradition
- Objects of refuge
- Observing your own mind
- Obstructions to the clear and knowing mind
- Obtaining a precious human life
- Obtaining offerings properly and setting the right posture
- Offering natural substances
- Offering our bodies to all sentient beings
- Offering our bodies to sentient beings
- Offering ourselves to the Buddhas
- Omniscient consciousnesses
- On friendship
- On impermanence
- One and different
- One and different as subjects
- One and many as predicates
- One taste
- One Teacher Many Traditions with Institut Vajra Yogini
- Online teaching resources
- Only dharma will benefit at death
- Only the Dharma helps at death
- Open heart, clear mind
- Opening our heart through generosity
- Opportunities that counteract attachment
- Opportunities to grow
- Opposing the self-centered thought
- Other life forms
- Other types of afflictions
- Others are as important as ourselves
- Others have been kind
- Others’ refutations
- Our Buddha potential
- Our contribution to peace
- Our human value
- Our identity crisis
- Our precious human life
- Our precious human life
- Our real enemy
- Our situation in cyclic existence
- Our spiritual goals
- Our supreme teachers
- Our unsatisfactory experiences
- Outline of Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland”
- Outline of the selfless
- Outshining hearers and solitary realizers
- Outshining through intelligence
- Overcoming afflictions
- Overcoming attachment to identities
- Overcoming confusion
- Overcoming discouragement
- Overcoming discouragement
- Overcoming ignorance
- Overcoming obstacles to Dharma practice
- Overcoming self-centeredness
- Overcoming the eight worldly concerns
- Overcoming the five hindrances to concentration
- Overcoming the four distorted conceptions
- Overview and Chapter 9: Verse 201
- Overview of Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland”
- Overview of the Buddhist worldview
- Overview of the stages of the path
- Overview of the stages of the path
- Pali tradition and noble path
- Paramita of ethical conduct
- Paramita of fortitude
- Paramita of generosity
- Parent-child relationships
- Parting from the Four Attachments
- Parting from the four clingings
- Parting from the Four Clingings
- Parts and wholes
- Path of accumulation and preparation
- Path of no more learning
- Path of seeing
- Path of seeing and meditation
- Path to liberation
- Paths for spiritual development
- Paths of accumulation and preparation
- Patience and joyous action
- Patience in developing serenity
- Peace and sublimity
- People do not learn by suffering
- Perfection of generosity
- Perfection of generosity: Do we really own anything?
- Perfection of generosity: Generosity in everyday situations
- Perfection of generosity: Generosity in the Jataka Tales
- Perfection of generosity: Giving fearlessly
- Perfection of generosity: Learning to connect with everybody
- Perfection of generosity: Non-material giving
- Perfection of generosity: Offering our universe
- Perfection of generosity: Pure and impure giving
- Perfection of generosity: The benefits of giving wisely
- Perfection of generosity: What makes generosity sincere
- Perfections of concentration and wisdom
- Permanent phenomena and functioning things
- Persons, perceptions, and mental factors
- Physical and verbal pathways of virtue
- Planting seeds for the life we want
- Planting seeds to understand the Dharma
- Pleasing sentient beings
- Points on karma and purification using the four forces
- Positive actions and their results
- Powa, transference of consciousness
- Power of prayer and familiarity
- Practical advice on attachment and pilgrimage
- Practical advice on manners
- Practical applications of studying philosophies
- Practical ethics and leadership
- Practical ethics from Nagarjuna
- Practical ethics: Part 1
- Practical ethics: Part 2
- Practical guidelines for good living
- Practical guidelines for good living
- Practice syllogisms
- Practice virtue, avoid non-virtue
- Practice, study, and offer service
- Practicing “The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”
- Practicing in harmony
- Practicing joyous effort
- Practicing the comparison of phenomena
- Practicing the defender’s answers
- Practicing the Dharma
- Practicing the Dharma in difficult times
- Practicing the Dharma purely
- Practicing the Dharma with bodhicitta
- Practicing the Dharma, transforming the mind
- Practicing the five forces in life and at death
- Practicing the four immeasurables
- Practicing with adversity
- Practicing with those who harm us
- Practitioners of great scope
- Praise and reputation
- Praise and reputation
- Pramanavartika conclusion
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 1
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 2
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 3
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 4
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 5
- Prayers, rituals, and practice
- Precepts: directing our energy positively
- Precious Garland review: Characteristics of karma
- Precious human life
- Precious human life
- Precious human life
- Precious human life
- Precious human life and how to use it wisely
- Precious human rebirth
- Precious treasures
- Preliminaries to meditation
- Preparing for calm abiding meditation
- Preparing for death
- Preparing for lamrim meditation
- Preparing the meditation space and making offerings
- Preparing the mind for tonglen
- Preventing and resolving problems
- Pride and humility
- Pride and ignorance
- Primordially pure awareness
- Problems and unpleasant experiences
- Problems are not necessarily bad
- Products and nonproduced phenomena
- Profound perfection of wisdom
- Profound view
- Progressing from wrong conceptions to correct view
- Prologue: Praise to Guru Manjushri
- Prostrations and the four Buddha Bodies
- Providing inner tools for young adults
- Proving four possibilities and mutual exclusion
- Proving mutual inclusion
- Proving past and future lives
- Proving the existence of past and future lives
- Purification
- Purification of misdeeds with Q&A
- Purifying destructive karma
- Purifying environmental effects of karma
- Purifying for refuge practice
- Purifying our negativities
- Pushed by our afflictions
- Putting bodhicitta into practice
- Putting the Dharma into practice
- Putting the dharma into practice
- Q&A on the 12 links of dependent origination
- Q&A with Clear Mountain Monastery
- Qualities of a Buddha
- Qualities of a Buddha’s mind
- Qualities of a reliable teacher
- Qualities of bodhisattva ground 7
- Qualities of bodhisattva grounds 2-3
- Qualities of bodhisattva grounds 4-6
- Qualities of bodhisattva grounds 8-10
- Qualities of Buddha’s body, speech and mind
- Qualities of qualified disciples
- Qualities of teacher and student
- Qualities of the Buddha Jewel
- Qualities of the Dharma Jewel
- Qualities of the lamrim
- Qualities of the Sangha Jewel
- Qualities of the student
- Qualities of the Three Jewels
- Qualities to abandon and cultivate
- Questioning appearances
- Questions about idle talk
- Questions and answers about karma
- Questions and answers on ethical conduct
- Questions and answers on karma
- Questions and answers on meditation
- Questions and answers: Existence and tenets
- Quiz 1: Hearer’s grounds and paths
- Quiz 2: Mahayana grounds and paths
- Quiz 3: Grounds and paths
- Quiz questions for Precious Garland: Intro to verse 24
- Quiz questions for Precious Garland: Verses 25-36
- Quiz questions Part 3 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 4 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 5 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 6 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 7 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 8 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 9 for Precious Garland
- Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 1
- Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 2
- Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 3
- Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 4
- Quiz: Aryadeva’s 400 Stanzas, Chapter 10
- Quiz: Aryadeva’s 400 Stanzas, Chapter 9
- Quiz: Aryadeva’s “400 Stanzas” Chapter 11
- Quiz: Aryadeva’s 400 Stanzas, Chapter 12
- Quiz: Seven types of cognizers
- Quotes about the afflictions
- Rarity of a precious human life
- Rarity of a precious human rebirth
- Reading list
- Real and unreal
- Real life or online?
- Realistic expectations
- Reality and appearances
- Realizing emptiness by hearers and solitary realizers
- Realizing our potential
- Realizing selflessness
- Realizing the Madhyamaka view
- Realizing things as they are
- Realms of existence
- Rebirth and impermanence
- Rebirth and karma
- Rebirth and karma
- Rebirth, karma and emptiness
- Rebirth, karma, and emptiness
- Rebirth: A difficult point for Westerners
- Rebirth: Is it really possible?
- Rebirth: Past and future lives
- Recognizing our afflictions
- Recognizing our mothers and their kindness
- Recollecting the Buddha
- Recollection of the Buddha
- Recollection of the Dharma and Sangha
- Reflecting on death and impermanence
- Reflecting on impermanence
- Reflecting on the empty nature of phenomena
- Reflecting on the six types of dukkha
- Reflection on cultivating excellent qualities
- Reflections on mind training
- Reformatting the hard disk of the mind
- Refuge
- Refuge
- Refuge advice
- Refuge and bodhicitta
- Refuge and bodhicitta
- Refuge and precept discussion questions
- Refuge and precepts ceremony
- Refuge and the excellent qualities of the Buddha
- Refuge causes and objects
- Refuge groups
- Refuge guidelines and karma
- Refuge in the Three Jewels
- Refuge meditation topics
- Refuge: Meaning and commitments
- Refuting a permanent and impermanent creator
- Refuting a permanent self
- Refuting a primal substance and independent self
- Refuting incorrect views on the causes of suffering and the afflictions
- Refuting inherent existence
- Refuting inherently existent phenomena
- Refuting self-cognition
- Refuting that body is the special basis of mind
- Refuting the Cittamatra view
- Refuting the elements as the cause of afflictions
- Refuting the inherent self
- Refuting the realists
- Refuting the Samkhyas and theist-ritualists
- Refuting the theist-ritualists and Jainas
- Refuting the Vaisesikas and Samkhyas
- Regard for the spiritual mentor
- Regretting negativity by reflecting on death
- Rejoicing in others’ qualities
- Rejuvenate your life
- Relating to a spiritual teacher
- Relating to our teacher by action
- Relationships with parents
- Releasing the mind of attachment
- Reliable cognizers and meditation
- Reliable cognizers and syllogisms
- Reliable cognizers based on example and authoritative testimony
- Reliance on a spiritual teacher
- Reliance on a teacher
- Religion in the modern world
- Religious harmony: Diversity is beneficial
- Relying on a qualified spiritual mentor
- Relying on a spiritual friend
- Relying on a spiritual friend
- Relying on a spiritual guide
- Relying on a spiritual mentor
- Relying on a spiritual mentor
- Relying on a spiritual teacher
- Relying on teachers in thought
- Relying on teachers in thought and deed
- Relying on the Dharma
- Relying on the teacher
- Relying upon Tara the liberator
- Remembering love and compassion
- Remembering the kindness of the guru with Ven. Chodron
- Remembering the kindness of the guru with Ven. Khadro
- Removing barriers to forgiveness
- Renewed existence
- Renounce suffering, practice joyfully
- Renouncing dukkha
- Renunciation
- Renunciation and bodhicitta
- Renunciation and compassion
- Renunciation and joyous effort
- Repaying kindness, love, and compassion
- Repaying the kindness of our mother
- Replacing self-centeredness with cherishing others
- Reputation and reward
- Requesting inspiration
- Requesting teachings and our teachers to remain
- Resistance to practicing tonglen
- Resolute and stable
- Resolving difficulties without anger
- Resolving to overcome our afflictions
- Respecting sentient beings
- Respecting the views of others
- Responsibility versus obligation
- Restricting the environment
- Retaliation
- Revelatory and non-revelatory forms
- Reverse system proving the Buddha as authority
- Reverse system proving the Buddha as authority, part 2
- Review 1 of Chapter 8: Verses 176-183
- Review 1 of Chapter 8: Verses 184-188
- Review 2 of Chapter 8: Verses 176-178
- Review 2 of Chapter 8: Verses 178-183
- Review night
- Review of abstract composites
- Review of attachment
- Review of bodhicitta
- Review of Buddha nature
- Review of Chapter 1
- Review of Chapter 1
- Review of Chapter 1: Remembering death
- Review of Chapter 10
- Review of Chapter 2
- Review of Chapter 2
- Review of Chapter 2
- Review of Chapter 3
- Review of Chapter 3
- Review of Chapter 3
- Review of Chapter 4
- Review of Chapter 4
- Review of Chapter 4
- Review of Chapter 5
- Review of Chapter 5
- Review of Chapter 6
- Review of Chapter 6: Part 1
- Review of Chapter 6: Part 2
- Review of Chapter 7
- Review of Chapter 7: Counteracting desire
- Review of Chapter 7: Verses 151-155
- Review of Chapter 7: Verses 156-175
- Review of chapter 9
- Review of Chapter 9
- Review of Chapter Five: “Guarding Alertness”
- Review of Chapter Five: “Guarding Alertness”, part two
- Review of Chapter Nine: Verses 1-4
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 1-11
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 12-21
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 22-34
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 36-40
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 40-42
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 43-44
- Review of chapters 10 and 11
- Review of chapters 11 and 12
- Review of chapters 4 and 5
- Review of chapters 6 and 7
- Review of consequences
- Review of cultivating insight into emptiness
- Review of definitions
- Review of Definitions
- Review of dependent origination
- Review of divisions of the selfless
- Review of emotions and afflictions
- Review of emotions and feelings
- Review of external matter
- Review of fear, anger and disillusionment
- Review of feeling
- Review of five faults and eight antidotes
- Review of four possibilities
- Review of functioning things
- Review of generosity and ethical conduct
- Review of internal matter and consciousness
- Review of loving kindness
- Review of precious human life
- Review of procedures in debate
- Review of serenity
- Review of sounds, odors and tastes
- Review of tenets and buddha nature
- Review of the 10 nonvirtuous actions
- Review of the 4 fearlessnesses and 10 powers
- Review of the four seals
- Review of the four truths
- Review of the four truths
- Review of the Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha
- Review of the intermediate scope practices of the lamrim
- Review of the nature of mind
- Review of the possibility of ending duhkha
- Review of the self
- Review of the six preparatory practices
- Review of the two truths
- Review of three kinds of dependent arising
- Review of three possibilities
- Review of true duhkha
- Review Quiz 1: Question 6
- Review Quiz 1: Questions 1-5
- Review Quiz 1: Questions 7-8
- Review Quiz 1: Questions 9-10
- Review Quiz 2: Questions 1-2
- Review Quiz 2: Questions 3-4
- Review Quiz 2: Questions 5-6
- Review Quiz 2: Questions 7-8
- Review Quiz 3: Questions 1-4
- Review Quiz 3: Questions 13-16
- Review Quiz 3: Questions 5-8
- Review Quiz 3: Questions 9-12
- Review session: Bodhisattva paths and grounds
- Review session: Bodhisattvas outshine through intelligence
- Review session: Coarse and subtle selflessness
- Review session: Compassion, impermanence and emptiness
- Review session: Identifying the root of samsara
- Review session: The first two bodhisattva grounds
- Review session: Three types of compassion
- Review: Advantages of bodhicitta
- Review: Bodhicitta and the afflictions
- Review: Chapters 7-8
- Review: Conventional bodhicitta
- Review: Cultivating conventional bodhicitta
- Review: Death and impermanence
- Review: Equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Review: Four preliminary practices
- Review: Ignorance and tenet systems
- Review: Karma
- Review: Nine stages of sustained attention
- Review: Object of negation
- Review: Our precious human life
- Review: Precepts of mind training
- Review: Purpose of the mind training practice
- Review: Taking and giving
- Review: Teachings on emptiness
- Review: The disadvantages of cyclic existence
- Review: The five powers at death
- Review: The five powers during life
- Review: The self-centered thought
- Review: Transforming adversity
- Review: Who to cherish
- Reward and respect
- Right action and livelihood
- Right concentration and effort
- Right effort, view, and thought
- Right mindfulness
- Right understanding of emptiness
- Rigpa
- Ripening the minds of others
- Role models
- Roles and responsibilities of a spiritual mentor
- Romance and family life
- Root bodhisattva downfalls
- Root bodhisattva vows: Vows 1 to 4
- Root bodhisattva vows: Vows 14 to 18
- Root bodhisattva vows: Vows 5 to 13
- Roots of cyclic existence
- Ruminating: living in the past and future
- Sakya
- Samsara and dukkha
- Samsara or cyclic existence
- Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha nature
- Sangha refuge
- Sautrāntika and two truths
- Sautrāntika tenet school: Part 1
- Sautrāntika tenet school: Part 2
- Sautrāntika tenet school: Part 3
- Sautrantika views
- Saying goodbye to our spiritual teachers
- Science and gender equality
- Science, creation and rebirth
- Scripture and reasoning
- Searching for the self
- Secondary misdeeds 23-32
- Secondary misdeeds 33-46
- Seeing all beings as having been our kind mother
- Seeing all sentient beings as having been our kind mothers
- Seeing ourselves as we really are
- Seeing the guru as Buddha
- Seeing the interdependence of phenomena
- Seeing the kindness of our mothers
- Seeing the kindness of our parents
- Seeking a qualified spiritual teacher to guide us
- Seeking enlightenment for the benefit of others
- Seeking happiness from inside
- Self and suffering
- Self and suffering, part 2 with questions and answers
- Self centeredness and the five decisions
- Self-centered Attitude
- Self-centeredness
- Self-centeredness and compassion
- Self-confidence
- Selflessness
- Selflessness of phenomena
- Selflessness of phenomena
- Selflessness of phenomena
- Selflessness, karma, and rebirth
- Sense pleasure won’t quench your thirst
- Sentience, mind, and brain
- Separation
- Serenity and insight
- Serenity and insight
- Serenity meditation and the four essential points
- Setting your motivation
- Seven amazing feats of Shantideva
- Seven kinds of awareness
- Seven tips for a happy life
- Seven-point cause and effect
- Seven-point cause and effect
- Sex and our culture
- Sexual misconduct, lying, and divisive speech
- Shifting from the self-centered thought to cherishing others
- Showing gratitude for others
- Similarities among Buddhist traditions
- Single and different
- Six conditions for serenity
- Six perfections and three higher trainings
- Six qualities of a disciple
- Six root afflictions: Conceit and “I am”
- Six root afflictions: Conceit and comparing
- Six root afflictions: Conceit and humility
- Six root afflictions: Doubt
- Six root afflictions: Ignorance
- Six root afflictions: Ignorance and wrong views
- Six root afflictions: Recognizing doubt
- Six root afflictions: View of the extremes
- Six root afflictions: Wrong views
- Six root afflictions: Wrong views, part 2
- Six sources
- Six types of inverted deeds
- Sixteen attributes of the four noble truths
- Skillfully dealing with problems
- Some challenges of changing religions
- Some questions on rebirth
- Sounds, odors and tangible objects
- Sources, contact, feeling
- Speaking at appropriate times
- Special verse: Oceans of merit
- Specifically and generally characterized phenomena
- Spiritual advice on practical matters
- Spiritual growth in daily life
- Spiritual practice transforms us
- Spiritual teachers
- Spread of Buddhadharma
- Squashing our ego
- Stages of the Path (lamrim) 1991-1994
- Stages of the path to enlightenment
- Stages on the path to awakening
- Starting with renunciation
- Statements of pervasion
- Statements of pervasion review
- Statements of qualities
- Statements of qualities review
- Statements of qualities review II
- Statements of qualities, Part 2
- Steadfastness
- Steadfastness and self-confidence
- Stopping the harm: Practicing ethical conduct
- Strategies in debate
- Streams of merit
- Striking at the vital point
- Structuring a meditation session
- Structuring a meditation session
- Study Buddhism: Introduction
- Subsequent cognizers
- Subsequent cognizers
- Subtle impermanence
- Subtlest clear light mind
- Suffering is like a dream
- Sufferings of cyclic existence
- Sufferings of cyclic existence
- Summary and review of Chapter 2
- Summary of the Fundamental Vehicle
- Supporting the Dharma practitioner
- Sustaining a steady Dharma practice
- Sutra in response to a query over what happens after death: a review
- Sutra school: Phenomena and cognition
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 1
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 2
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 3
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 4
- Sweet and endearing mothers
- Syllogisms
- Syllogisms
- Syllogisms review
- Taking advantage of our precious human life
- Taking and giving
- Taking and giving
- Taking and giving meditation
- Taking joy in our Dharma practice
- Taking on the suffering of others
- Taking on the suffering of others
- Taking pleasure in bad actions
- Taking problems onto the spiritual path
- Taking rebirth from the intermediate state
- Taking refuge
- Taking refuge
- Taking refuge
- Taking refuge
- Taking refuge and the five precepts
- Taking refuge and the meaning of the Three Jewels
- Taking refuge in the guru
- Taking refuge in the Three Jewels
- Taking refuge: From “Open Heart, Clear Mind”
- Taking responsibility for our experiences
- Taking the ache out of attachment
- Taking the bodhisattva ethical restraint
- Taking-and-giving meditation
- Taming the mind: Questions and answers
- Taming the monkey mind
- Tantra and Buddhist canons
- Teachings on emptiness
- Ten Percent Happier interview: What’s your motivation?
- Ten powers
- Ten powers and eighteen unshared qualities
- Ten root afflictions
- Tenet schools and selflessness
- Tenet systems and the extremes
- Tenets review
- The “Ye Dharma Dharani”
- The 10 constructive actions
- The 10 non-virtues: 3 of body
- The 10 non-virtues: 3 of mind
- The 10 non-virtues: Disharmonious speech
- The 10 non-virtues: Harsh speech
- The 10 non-virtues: Idle talk
- The 10 non-virtues: Lying
- The 10 virtues
- The 12 links and the four noble truths
- The 12 links of dependent arising
- The 12 links of dependent arising: Overview
- The 18 unshared qualities of a buddha
- The 37 harmonies with awakening
- The 37 harmonies with awakening, part 2
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verse 22
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 1-4
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 10-16
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 16-20
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 20-21
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 23-26
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 27-32
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 33-37
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 5-9
- The actual session and dedications
- The advantages of bodhicitta
- The advantages of bodhicitta
- The advantages of cherishing others
- The advantages of cherishing others
- The advantages of living ethically
- The altruistic intention
- The altruistic intention
- The altruistic intention
- The analogy of a bucket
- The attributes of the four truths
- The bardo and taking rebirth
- The basic principles of karma
- The benefits and causes of bodhicitta
- The benefits of bodhichitta
- The benefits of bodhicitta
- The benefits of change
- The benefits of difficulties
- The benefits of having a teacher
- The benefits of living as a monk or nun
- The benefits of love
- The benefits of relying on a spiritual mentor
- The benefits of remembering death
- The benefits of the study of Dudra
- The best antidote
- The best conduct
- The best discipline
- The best ethical conduct
- The best fortitude
- The best giving
- The best higher attainment
- The best joyous effort
- The best learning
- The best sign of higher attainment
- The bodhisattva ethical code
- The bodhisattva ideal
- The bodhisattva precepts: Part 1
- The bodhisattva precepts: Part 2
- The bodhisattva precepts: Part 3 and the six perfections
- The bodhisattva’s job is to wake us up
- The body and mind
- The body is not beautiful
- The body is not the mind’s substantial cause
- The broad framework of the path
- The Buddha and the Dharma
- The Buddha as a reliable guide
- The Buddha as savior
- The Buddha as Sugata
- The Buddha as teacher
- The Buddha responds to questions about rebirth
- The Buddha’s first teaching
- The Buddha’s life and teachings
- The Buddha’s omniscient mind
- The Buddhist enthymeme
- The Buddhist path and emptiness
- The Buddhist syllogism
- The Buddhist traditions
- The Buddhist view of the mind
- The Buddhist worldview
- The Buddhist worldview
- The Buddhist worldview
- The cause of unsatisfactory experience
- The causes and effects of higher rebirth
- The causes of bodhicitta
- The causes of body and mind
- The causes of higher rebirth and definite goodness
- The causes of samsara
- The certainty of death
- The challenger responds to the defender
- The clap!
- The commitments of mind training
- The commitments of mind training
- The comparison of phenomena
- The comparison of phenomena
- The complexity of karma
- The concept of refuge
- The correct view
- The courage to destroy the afflictions
- The danger of anger
- The danger of attachment to the body
- The dead end of jealousy
- The death and rebirth process
- The death process
- The defects of anger
- The defender’s answers
- The defender’s response
- The definition of substantial cause
- The destructive actions of speech
- The determination to be free
- The determination to be free
- The determination to be free
- The determination to be free from samsara
- The difficulty of attaining a precious human life
- The disadvantages of cyclic existence: Part 1
- The disadvantages of cyclic existence: Part 2
- The disadvantages of samsara
- The disadvantages of self-centeredness
- The disadvantages of self-centeredness
- The disadvantages of the eight worldly concerns
- The drawbacks to not remembering death
- The dukkha of cyclic existence
- The dukkha of pain and change
- The dukkha of pervasive conditioning
- The dukkha of uncertainty
- The effects of negative karma
- The effects of self-centeredness
- The effects of the ten non-virtues
- The eight disadvantages of cyclic existence
- The eight excellent qualities of the dharma jewel
- The eight one-day precepts
- The eight types of suffering
- The eight worldly concerns
- The eight worldly concerns
- The eight worldly concerns
- The eight worldly concerns
- The eight worldly concerns
- The eight worldly concerns
- The eightfold path
- The eightfold path: Benefiting others
- The emptiness of beings
- The emptiness of inherent existence
- The emptiness of the giver, the giving, and the receiver
- The enemy of the afflictions
- The entrance to the Buddhist path
- The equivalents of existents
- The Essence of a Human Life
- The essence of a meaningful life
- The essence of a meaningful life
- The ethical conduct of gathering virtue and benefiting sentient beings
- The ethical conduct of restraining from nonvirtue
- The ethics of altruism
- The existence of the Three Jewels
- The factors that influence karmic weight
- The far-reaching practice of fortitude
- The far-reaching practice of generosity
- The far-reaching practice of joyous effort
- The far-reaching practice of patience
- The far-reaching practice of wisdom
- The faults of attachment
- The faults of self-centeredness
- The faults of self-centeredness
- The Fifth Precept: Diet for a Mindful Society
- The filth of the body
- The first bodhisattva ground
- The first noble truth and dukkha
- The first noble truth: Dukkha
- The first noble truth: Our situation in samsara
- The First Precept: Reverence for Life
- The five afflictive views
- The five appropriated aggregates are suffering
- The five faults and eight antidotes
- The five hindrances to meditative stabilization
- The five lay precepts
- The five main topics studied in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries
- The five precepts
- The five types of afflictive views
- The Five Wonderful Precepts: Introduction
- The fortunes of a precious human life
- The foulness of the body
- The Foundation of Buddhist Practice
- The foundation of mind training
- The four aspects of joyous effort
- The four aspects of karma
- The four aspects of killing and stealing
- The four attributes of true of dukkha
- The four attributes of true of origins of dukkha
- The four characteristics of karma and purification
- The four distortions
- The four distortions: No ability to bring lasting happiness
- The four distortions: Seeing what is impermanent as permanent
- The four distortions: Subtle impermanence
- The four distortions: Who do you think you are?
- The four factors of gathering disciples
- The four fearlessnesses of the Buddha
- The four general characteristics of karma
- The four great qualities of the lamrim
- The four immeasurable attitudes
- The four immeasurables in the Pali and Sanskrit traditions
- The four maras
- The four messengers
- The four noble truths
- The four noble truths
- The four noble truths
- The four noble truths
- The four noble truths
- The four opponent powers
- The four opponent powers for purification
- The four powers that increase joyous effort
- The four preparations
- The four seals
- The four seals of Buddhism
- The four seals of Buddhism: The first seal
- The four seals of Buddhism: The second, third and fourth seals
- The four thoughts that turn the mind
- The four truths
- The four truths
- The four truths of the aryas
- The four types of clinging
- The four types of karmic results
- The fourth distortion
- The Fourth Precept: Deep Listening and Loving Speech
- The freedoms and fortunes of a precious human rebirth
- The freedoms of a precious human life
- The functioning of cause and effect
- The gateway to the Buddhadharma
- The general and specific characteristics of karma
- The general characteristics of karma
- The great aspirations of bodhisattvas
- The great resolve and bodhicitta
- The greatness of the Dharma
- The greatness of the teaching
- The growth of the Mahayana
- The healing power of the precepts
- The heart of the Buddhadharma
- The importance of a teacher
- The importance of devotion
- The importance of ethical conduct
- The importance of ethical conduct
- The importance of knowing our self worth
- The importance of motivation
- The importance of motivation
- The importance of realizing emptiness
- The importance of realizing the ultimate nature
- The importance of reflecting on a precious human life
- The importance of remembering death
- The ineffability of emptiness
- The intention to lie
- The internal judge and jury
- The joy of living as a monk or nun
- The joy of serving sentient beings
- The kind of person I want to be
- The kindness of enemies
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others and wanting to repay it
- The kindness of our enemies
- The kindness of our mothers
- The kindness of our parents
- The kindness of our spiritual mentors
- The library of wisdom and compassion
- The life of Lama Tsongkhapa
- The light of liberation: True satisfaction and fulfillment
- The lower realms
- The lower realms and taking refuge
- The Madhyamaka view
- The Madhyamaka view: A review
- The Madhyamaka view: Questions and answers
- The maxims of mind training
- The meaning and purpose of renunciation
- The meaning of compassion
- The meaning of enlightenment
- The meaning of precepts
- The meaning of refuge
- The measure of a trained mind
- The measure of the middle scope attitude
- The media
- The meditation on taking and giving
- The mental nonvirtues: coveting, malice and wrong views
- The merits of bodhicitta
- The middle way
- The middle way view
- The Middle Way view
- The Middle Way view
- The mind and its potential
- The mind and renunciation
- The mind and suffering
- The mind is the source of happiness
- The mind, rebirth, and karma
- The mind’s potential and the existence of the Three Jewels
- The mind’s potential in the Pali tradition
- The mirror of the Dharma
- The misery of attachment
- The nature of mind
- The nature of pleasure and pain
- The need for insight
- The need for monasteries in the West
- The nine-point death meditation
- The noble eightfold path
- The noble eightfold path and the four-way test
- The nonvirtues of harsh speech and idle talk
- The nonvirtues of lying and divisive speech
- The nonvirtues of stealing and sexual misconduct
- The object of negation
- The object of negation
- The object of negation
- The object of negation
- The objects of different consciousnesses
- The omnipresent mental factors
- The opening volleys
- The order in which afflictions arise
- The order in which afflictions develop
- The origin of duhkha
- The pain of harsh words
- The particulars of the definition
- The path of the initial level practitioner
- The path to awakening
- The path to awakening: An overview
- The path to cultivate
- The path to liberation
- The pathways of physical nonvirtue
- The patience of not retaliating
- The perfection of concentration
- The perfection of ethical conduct & fortitude
- The perfection of ethical conduct
- The perfection of fortitude
- The perfection of generosity
- The permutations of karma
- The person and the aggregates
- The poisons of anger, attachment and ignorance
- The possibility of ending duhkha
- The potential for liberation
- The power of a kind motivation
- The power of afflictions and purification
- The power of aspiration
- The practice of refuge
- The practices of bodhisattvas—four types of generosity
- The practices of bodhisattvas—the six perfections
- The Prasangika view
- The Pratimoksha ethical code
- The pratimoksha vows
- The precepts for aspiring and engaging bodhicitta
- The precepts of aspiring bodhicitta
- The precepts of aspiring bodhicitta
- The precepts of mind training
- The preliminaries
- The preliminaries of mind training
- The protection of the aspiring bodhicitta precepts
- The psychology of true self-compassion
- The purity of emptiness
- The purity of the mind
- The purpose of remembering death
- The purpose of spiritual practice
- The qualities of a spiritual mentor
- The qualities of spiritual mentors and students
- The qualities of the Three Jewels
- The rarity of a precious human life
- The real purpose of the Dharma
- The reality of our existence
- The reasoning behind rebirth
- The reasons for taking refuge
- The reasons that prove cessation
- The relationship between the two truths
- The relationship with a teacher
- The relationship with our parents
- The results of karma
- The results of karma
- The results of negative karma
- The results of the 10 destructive actions
- The results of the collections of wisdom and merit
- The results of virtue and nonvirtue
- The results of virtue and nonvirtue
- The right view of emptiness
- The ripening of karma
- The roadmap to enlightenment
- The root affliction of anger
- The root affliction of attachment
- The root afflictions: Anger
- The root afflictions: Arrogance
- The root afflictions: Attachment
- The root afflictions: Ignorance
- The root of samsara
- The root of samsara
- The second noble truth: the root afflictions
- The Second Precept: Generosity
- The secondary afflictions
- The seed of enlightenment
- The self and the aggregates
- The self and the aggregates
- The self as a merely labeled phenomenon
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Consideration for self and others
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Cultivating wisdom
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Ethical conduct
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Faith
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Generosity of protection and of the Dharma
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Learning
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Learning in Tibetan Monasteries
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Material generosity
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Personal integrity
- The seven-point cause-and-effect practice
- The shaper of our life and death
- The six far-reaching attitudes
- The six far-reaching practices
- The six far-reaching practices
- The six preliminary practices, part 1
- The six preliminary practices, part 2
- The six preparatory practices
- The six preparatory practices
- The six sufferings of sentient beings
- The sixteen aspects of the four truths
- The sixteen distorted ideas
- The sixteen practices for higher rebirth
- The skeleton in the body
- The source of disagreement
- The source of happiness and misery
- The sufferings of the three upper realms
- The Svatantrika view
- The taking-and-giving meditation
- The teaching of no-self
- The ten innermost jewels of the Kadampas
- The ten non virtuous paths of action
- The ten paths of nonvirtue today
- The ten powers of the Tathagata
- The thief of self-centered thought
- The Third Precept: Sexual Responsibility
- The three baskets
- The three characteristics
- The three characteristics
- The three forms of generosity
- The three higher trainings
- The three higher trainings
- The three higher trainings and the eight fold path
- The Three Jewels
- The Three Jewels as ideals
- The three levels of spiritual practitioner
- The three physical destructive actions
- The three poisons
- The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
- The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
- The three purposes of debate
- The three results of karma
- The three types of attachment
- The three types of compassion
- The three types of fortitude
- The three types of laziness
- The threefold analysis
- The time for emptiness
- The time of death is indefinite
- The truth of cessation
- The truth of dukkha
- The truth of dukkha
- The truth of dukkha
- The truth of origination of suffering
- The truth of the origin of suffering
- The twelve links of dependent arising
- The twelve links of dependent arising (continued)
- The two collections prevent physical and mental suffering
- The two obscurations
- The two truths
- The two truths
- The two truths and dependent arising
- The two truths and different tenets
- The two truths and karma
- The two truths and non-deceptive knowledge
- The two truths and Tibetan philosophy
- The two truths in the Cittamatra system
- The two truths in the four schools
- The two truths: Conclusion
- The two truths: Conventional existence
- The two truths: Questions and answers
- The two truths: The Sautrantika view
- The two truths: The Svatantrika view
- The ultimate mode of existence
- The unhappy mind
- The union of wisdom and compassion
- The universal antidote
- The Vajrayana path
- The value and purpose of a precious human life
- The value of the monastic community
- The vast benefits of bodhicitta
- The Vimalakirti Sutra: Eliminating false conceptualization
- The Vimalakirti Sutra: How to be reborn in a pure land
- The Vimalakirti Sutra: Introduction
- The Vimalakirti Sutra: The two truths
- The virtuous mental factors
- The way to rely on a teacher
- The weight of karmic actions
- The welfare of all beings
- The wheel of karmic actions and results
- The wheel of karmic cause and effect
- The wheel of life
- The whole and its parts
- The wish to repay the kindness of all beings
- The workings of karma
- Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism
- Think out of the box
- Third and fourth noble truths
- This precious human life
- Thought consciousnesses and direct perceivers
- Thought consciousnesses and direct perceivers
- Thought training when working with others
- Thought transformation: Changing perspective when problems arise
- Three aspects of the Tathagatagarbha
- Three beneficial mental factors
- Three destructive actions of mind
- Three higher trainings
- Three jewels according to the fundamental vehicle
- Three jewels according to the perfection vehicle
- Three Jewels in the Vajra Vehicle
- Three Jewels of the Vajra vehicle
- Three kinds of dependent arising
- Three kinds of ethical conduct
- Three kinds of karmic result
- Three kinds of peace
- Three kinds of sameness
- Three levels of dependent arising
- Three levels of Dharma practitioners
- Three levels of wisdom: Hearing, thinking, and meditating
- Three nonvirtues of mind
- Three qualities of a student
- Three questions about the self
- Three thoughts to generate on waking up
- Three turnings of the Dharma wheel
- Three types of compassion
- Three types of compassion
- Three types of correct signs
- Three types of dependent arising and how they prove emptiness
- Three types of generosity
- Three types of persons
- Three ways to see bodhicitta in terms of dependent arising
- Through what is emptiness known?
- Tibetan Buddhism and other Buddhist traditions
- Tips for practice
- To be enjoyed and loved by sentient beings
- Tonglen and social problems
- Tonglen: Taking and giving
- Tonglen: Taking and giving
- Tools for the path
- Training in calm abiding
- Training in conventional and ultimate bodhicitta
- Training in the five powers
- Training in the five powers
- Training the mind in giving
- Training the mind to see things more accurately
- Transcendental dependent origination
- Transforming adverse circumstances
- Transforming Adversities into the Path
- Transforming adversity
- Transforming adversity into joy and courage
- Transforming adversity into the path
- Transforming adversity Into the path
- Transforming and naturally abiding Buddha nature
- Transforming anger
- Transforming arrogance and anger
- Transforming attachment and hostility
- Transforming hindrances and adversity
- Transforming problems into compassion
- Transforming suffering
- Transforming the Complaining Mind
- Transforming the judgmental mind
- Transforming the mind
- Transforming the mind through taking and giving
- Transforming the self-centered mind
- True cessations
- True duhkha
- True origins
- Truth of the path
- Turning the Dharma wheel and buddha nature
- Turning to the Buddhist path for spiritual guidance
- Twenty secondary afflictions
- Twenty-first century Buddhists
- Twenty-Verse Prayer from Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland”
- Two aims and four reliances
- Two truths
- Types of awareness
- Types of dependent origination
- Types of duhkha
- Types of nirvana
- Types of selflessness
- Ultimate and conventional existence
- Ultimate and conventional existence
- Ultimate and conventional truths
- Ultimate and conventional truths
- Ultimate nature of the twelve links
- Unborn clear light mind
- Uncovering inner beauty
- Understanding and transforming difficulties
- Understanding and transforming our difficulties
- Understanding anger
- Understanding Buddhist traditions
- Understanding emptiness, attaining liberation
- Understanding emptiness: Part 1
- Understanding emptiness: Part 2
- Understanding emptiness: Part 3
- Understanding ignorance
- Understanding karma
- Understanding our situation
- Understanding our situation in samsara
- Understanding refuge
- Understanding the mind
- Understanding the self
- Understanding the tenet systems
- Understanding the Three Jewels
- Understanding the true nature of mind
- Understanding the workings of the mind
- Understanding through reasoned logic
- Unfortunate rebirths
- Unhappiness fuels anger
- Unlocking your potential
- Unpacking our afflictions
- Unsatisfactoriness of god realms
- Untainted meditation
- Using difficulties to uplift your practice
- Using the principles of karma to our advantage
- Using the subtlest clear light mind on the path
- Vaibashika, Sautrantika, and Mind-only
- Vaibhāṣika tenet school: Part 1
- Vaibhāṣika tenet school: Part 2
- Vaibhāṣika tenet school: Part 3
- Valid syllogisms
- Valuing our intelligence
- Varieties of Madhyamaka
- Various ways of describing karma
- Vehicles and paths
- Verbal non-virtues
- Verbal pathways of virtue
- Verse 40: The one who infects others’ minds
- Verse 1: The citadel of liberation
- Verse 1: The realms of samsara
- Verse 10-1: The fuel of the passions
- Verse 10-2: Counteracting the defilements
- Verse 10-3: Meditating on emptiness
- Verse 10: Misleading friends
- Verse 100: The armor of fortitude
- Verse 101: The magical horse
- Verse 102: The sparkling mirror
- Verse 103: The freedom of realizing emptiness
- Verse 104: The most amazing drama
- Verse 105: The excellent action
- Verse 106: Transcending the indulgences of samsara and nirvana
- Verse 107: The legs and eyes of the path
- Verse 108: The root of all goodness
- Verse 11: False friends
- Verse 11: The fire of wisdom
- Verse 12: Attachment to comfort
- Verse 12: The nectar of wisdom
- Verse 13: Attachment to temporary pleasures
- Verse 13: The nourishment of samadhi
- Verse 14-1: The prison of cyclic existence
- Verse 14-2: What samsara is
- Verse 14-3: Three higher trainings
- Verse 15-1: Plunging into cyclic existence
- Verse 15-2: Three kinds of bodhisattvas
- Verse 15-3: Giving up everything for others
- Verse 15-4: Wisdom in benefitting others
- Verse 16: Opening the door of liberation
- Verse 16: The load of contaminated aggregates
- Verse 17-1: Closing the door to the lower realms
- Verse 17-2: Taking care of ourselves
- Verse 17-3: Teaching the Dharma
- Verse 17-4: Gathering disciples
- Verse 17-5: Value of keeping precepts
- Verse 17: The liar
- Verse 18: The exalted path
- Verse 18: The sharp weapon that slices hearts
- Verse 19-1: The upper realms
- Verse 19-2: Precious human life
- Verse 19-3: Bodhisattva practices
- Verse 19-4: Antidote to depression
- Verse 19: Criticism, babble and chatter
- Verse 2: Attachment to sense pleasures
- Verse 2: The dimension of reality
- Verse 20-1: Going downhill
- Verse 20-2: The lower realms
- Verse 20-3: Creating the causes
- Verse 20: The evil spirits that devour others
- Verse 21-1: On meeting others
- Verse 21-2: Seeing the buddha in others
- Verse 21-3: Buddha nature
- Verse 21-4: Emptiness of mind
- Verse 21: Working for a corrupt boss
- Verse 22-1: Bodhicitta while walking
- Verse 22-2: Toward the welfare of all beings
- Verse 22: The hungry ghost mind
- Verse 23-1: Lifting all beings from samsara
- Verse 23-2: Mahayana walking meditation
- Verse 23: The ignorant beast
- Verse 24-1: Wearing ornaments
- Verse 24-2: Marks of a buddha
- Verse 24: Our noisy minds
- Verse 25-1: Without ornaments
- Verse 25-2: Ascetic practices
- Verse 25: The negative omen of exaggeration
- Verse 26-1: Filled with good qualities
- Verse 26-2: Filling containers
- Verse 26-3: Reducing jealousy and anger
- Verse 26: Small negativities, strong poisons
- Verse 27: Empty containers
- Verse 27: Guarding our spiritual precepts
- Verse 28: Getting rid of body odor
- Verse 28: Joy in the teachings
- Verse 29: Dissatisfaction with samsara
- Verse 29: Vulgar and insensitive actions
- Verse 3: The dreamlike nature of things
- Verse 3: The fire of anger
- Verse 30-1: Happiness
- Verse 30-2: The bliss of a buddha
- Verse 30: The navigator in samsara
- Verse 31: Seeing someone suffering
- Verse 31: The invisible disease
- Verse 32-1: Being free from illness
- Verse 32-2: Working with sickness
- Verse 32-3: Renouncing suffering
- Verse 32-4: Aging gracefully
- Verse 32-5: Who is sick?
- Verse 32: The master executioner
- Verse 33-1: Repaying kindness
- Verse 33-2: The kindness of others
- Verse 33-3: Had we not met the Dharma….
- Verse 33-4: The kindness of the Three Jewels
- Verse 33: The one who suffers the most
- Verse 34-1: Unkind to wrong views
- Verse 34-2: Making offerings
- Verse 34-3: Delight in giving
- Verse 34-4: How we repay others’ kindness
- Verse 34-5: Afflicted views
- Verse 34-6: Three Jewels, rebirth, and karma
- Verse 34-7: What the mind is
- Verse 34: The most evil of all beings in the world
- Verse 35-1: Seeing a dispute
- Verse 35-2: Conflict styles, part 1
- Verse 35-3: Conflict styles, part 2
- Verse 35-4: Conflict styles, part 3
- Verse 35: The biggest loser
- Verse 36-1: Praising others
- Verse 36-2: Other people’s qualities
- Verse 36-3: How to praise people
- Verse 36-4: Praising the buddhas and bodhisattvas
- Verse 36: The slave owned by everyone in the world
- Verse 37: Discussing the teachings
- Verse 37: The one who is most ridiculed
- Verse 38: Representations of the Buddha
- Verse 38: The skilled merchant
- Verse 39: Monuments of enlightenment
- Verse 39: The poorest of all beings
- Verse 4: The darkness of ignorance
- Verse 4: The sleep of ignorance
- Verse 40-1: Faith in the Three Jewels
- Verse 40-2: Three kinds of faith
- Verse 40-3: Ethical conduct
- Verse 40-4: Learning
- Verse 40-5: Generosity
- Verse 40-6: Integrity
- Verse 40-7: Consideration for others
- Verse 40-8: Discriminating wisdom
- Verse 41: Praising the Buddha
- Verse 41: The most beautiful to worldly people
- Verse 42: The most vain of all beings in the world
- Verse 43: Bearing small ordeals
- Verse 44: The powerful demon of doubt
- Verse 45: The mule
- Verse 46: The competitor disliked by all
- Verse 47: The great fault
- Verse 48: The smelly fart
- Verse 49: The parrot
- Verse 5-1: Attaining the form buddha bodies
- Verse 5-2: Creating the causes
- Verse 5: The wild horse of pride
- Verse 50: The cantankerous old dog
- Verse 51: Destroying the garden of happiness
- Verse 52: The antidote to apathy
- Verse 53: The wandering mind
- Verse 54: The cunning thief
- Verse 55: The crazy elephant
- Verse 56: The deadly sword
- Verse 57: Fishing in a dry riverbed
- Verse 58: The slippery slope of worldly gain
- Verse 59: Empty-handed in samsara
- Verse 6-1: Robes of integrity
- Verse 6-2: Consideration for others
- Verse 6-3: A clear conscience
- Verse 6: The mischievous slanderer, jealousy
- Verse 60: A pure land of joy
- Verse 61: A reliable protector from suffering
- Verse 62: The wish-fulfilling jewel
- Verse 63: The currency that eradicates all poverty
- Verse 64: Our supreme friend
- Verse 65: Resting the weary mind
- Verse 66: The eye of wisdom
- Verse 67: The wise and skilled teacher
- Verse 68: The one with intense discipline
- Verse 69: The best speaker of all
- Verse 7: Secured by the root of virtue
- Verse 7: The enemies of happiness and prosperity
- Verse 70: The most respected of all beings
- Verse 71: Living an exemplary life
- Verse 72: The sweetest conversation
- Verse 73: Buddhas-to-be
- Verse 74: Every moment matters
- Verse 75: True heroes
- Verse 76: The most powerful army
- Verse 76: The power of spiritual integrity
- Verse 77: Freedom from fear
- Verse 78: The mind of equanimity
- Verse 79: Freeing the mind from attachment
- Verse 8: The prison of personal entanglements
- Verse 8: The seat of enlightenment
- Verse 80: Dwelling in sublime joy
- Verse 81: The flying horse
- Verse 82: Impulsiveness
- Verse 83: Examining the self-centered mind
- Verse 84: Good role models
- Verse 85: Precious and rare medicine
- Verse 86: Powerful ambrosia
- Verse 87: Protecting the Dharma jewel
- Verse 88: Seeds of joy
- Verse 89: The supreme possession
- Verse 9: The chains that bind us
- Verse 9: The tree of enlightenment
- Verse 90: The auspicious omen of love
- Verse 91: Guarding our body, speech, and mind
- Verse 92: The basis of good and evil
- Verse 93: Elders with wisdom
- Verse 94: Those with right livelihood
- Verse 95: The wisest amongst learned beings
- Verse 96: Do not do unto others
- Verse 97: The supreme goodness
- Verse 98: The supreme treasure
- Verse 99: The magical ritual
- Verses 14-15: The trickster and the exhibitionist
- Verses 2-4: Review
- Verses review: The Buddhist view
- Vesak and the Buddha’s life
- Vesak verse: Bodhicitta on Vesak day
- View of a personal identity
- Virtue, nonvirtue, merit, and roots of nonvirtue
- Virtuous actions and their effects
- Virtuous activities and thoughts
- Virtuous and nonvirtuous paths of action
- Virtuous and variable mental factors & the afflictions
- Virtuous karma and its effects
- Virtuous mental factors #2-6
- Virtuous mental factors #7-11
- Virtuous mental factors and root afflictions
- Visualizing sentient beings
- Visualizing the Buddha
- Visualizing the merit field
- Visualizing the merit field and offering the seven-limb prayer
- Visualizing the Three Jewels
- Want to become a monk or nun?
- Was the Buddha an activist?
- Watch what you’re doing: your actions have results
- Ways in which we apprehend phenomena
- We are all equal
- Wealth is fraught with problems
- Wealth is suffering
- Western perspectives on Tsongkhapa
- Western philosophy and early Buddhist knowledge
- What did I do to deserve this?
- What does it mean to be a good person?
- What exactly is ethics?
- What ignorance is
- What is a person?
- What is culture, what is Dharma?
- What is important at the time of death
- What is mind?
- What is prayer?
- What is the mind?
- What is to be done in between sessions
- What is Western Buddhism?
- What is wisdom?
- What it means to see the guru as the Buddha
- What makes karma heavy and strong
- What makes karma powerful
- What matters at the time of death
- What obscures our buddha nature
- What patience feels like
- What suffering does
- What to do between sessions
- What to do during the actual session
- What to do during the meditation session and between sessions
- What to practice while dying
- What’s wrong with a little bit of pleasure?
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Introduction
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Introduction and Verses 1-14
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verse 104-Conclusion
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 1-6
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 10-15
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 101-104
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 102-105 (Review)
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 104-106
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 105-107
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 107-111
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 111-113
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 114-Colophon
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 15-23
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 16-21
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 22-24
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 24-34
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 25-28
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 29-33
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 34-37
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 35-42
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 38-42
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 43-45
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 43-49
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 46-48
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 49-55
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 50-62
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 56-59
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 60-63
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 63-71
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 64-66
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 67-69
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 69-72
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 7-10
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 72-80
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 73-76
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 77-80
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 81-83
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 81-92
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 84-85
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 86-89
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 90-91
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 92-94
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 93-98
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 95-98
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 99-100
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 99-104
- When karma ripens
- When things fall apart it’s time to practice
- Where do the afflictions exist?
- Where is attachment?
- Who am I?
- Who are you judging?
- Who are you, really?
- Who can receive teachings on emptiness?
- Who experiences the 12 links?
- Who’s responsible for our suffering
- Who’s walking?
- Why am I giving?
- Why be afraid of anger?
- Why bodhicitta is so powerful
- Why Buddhism?
- Why do I protect myself and not others?
- Why do things happen?
- Why does this get to me?
- Why get angry?
- Why is bodhicitta so powerful?
- Why is the Vinaya important if things are empty?
- Why should we train the mind?
- Why study Buddhism?
- Why study debate?
- Why the Buddha is an authority
- Why the Madhyamaka view
- Why the truth of suffering is taught first
- Why things happen the way they do
- Why understanding the truth is needed
- Why we need a teacher
- Willingness to undergo hardship
- Wisdom and compassion
- Wisdom fear of samsara
- Wisdom in difficult times
- Wisdom that knows the ultimate nature
- Wisdom: Understanding reality
- Wishing bodhicitta
- Working for sentient beings
- Working in the world
- Working on the mind
- Working with anger
- Working with anger
- Working with anger, developing fortitude
- Working with criticism
- Working with difficult situations
- Working with disturbing emotions
- Working with jealousy
- Working with karma
- Working with obstacles on the path
- Working with the afflictions review
- Working with the eight worldly concerns
- Wrath, vengeance, spite, jealousy
- Wrong consciousness
- Wrong views, karma, and karmic paths
- Yogic direct perceiver
- Yogis and common people
- Zipping our lips
Teachings at Sravasti Abbey
Teachings by Khensur Jampa Tegchok
Teachings by Khensur Wangdak Rinpoche
Teachings by Ven. Sangye Khadro
Tenets with Geshe Dadul Namgyal
Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul
- Benefits of cultivating bodhicitta
- Benefits of studying emptiness
- Buddhism, science, and mind
- Conventional and ultimate truths
- Discussion: Mind-only school
- Discussion: Perceptions and existence
- Emptiness and bodhicitta
- Emptiness and impermanence
- Emptiness in everyday life
- Five paths, buddhas, and arhats
- Four seals, obstacles, and enemies of bodhicitta
- Generating bodhicitta
- Goals and obscurations
- Hearers, solitary realizers, bodhisattvas
- Imputed and established natures
- Introduction to the tenets
- Karma, impermanence, and cognition
- Meditation on emptiness
- Mental states and objects of knowledge
- Mind basis of all
- Mind-only school
- Persons, perceptions, and mental factors
- Questions and answers: Existence and tenets
- Reality and appearances
- Sautrāntika and two truths
- Sautrantika views
- Scripture and reasoning
- Single and different
- Sutra school: Phenomena and cognition
- Tenet systems and the extremes
- The four seals
- Understanding the tenet systems
- Vaibashika, Sautrantika, and Mind-only
Tenets with Ven. Sangye Khadro
Texts to Recite and Contemplate
The Eight Mahayana Precepts
The Importance of Motivation
Thought Training
- “Don’t Believe Everything You Think” review: Verses 1-9
- “Don’t Believe Everything You Think”: Verses and stories
- “Good Karma” book launch
- “Good Karma”: Book reading with questions and answers
- “Good Karma”: Creating the causes for happiness
- “Good Karma”: Creating the causes for our future experiences
- “Good Karma”: Creating the causes for the future we want
- “Good Karma”: Creating the causes for the kind of life we want
- “Good Karma”: How our actions bring about our experiences
- “Good Karma”: The ethical dimension of our actions
- ༄༅། །ནུབ་པ་རིག་འཛིན་གྲགས་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པའི་ཞེན་པ་བཞི་བྲལ་བཞུགས། །
- 108 Verses: A bucket in a well
- 108 Verses: Verse 47 and dependence on others
- 108 Verses: Verse 7
- 108 Verses: Verse 7
- 108 Verses: Verse 8
- 108 Verses: Verse 9
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-14
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-3
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-6
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-6
- 108 Verses: Verses 10-12
- 108 Verses: Verses 100-108
- 108 Verses: Verses 13-14
- 108 Verses: Verses 15-17
- 108 Verses: Verses 15-19
- 108 Verses: Verses 17-21
- 108 Verses: Verses 20-26
- 108 Verses: Verses 27-34
- 108 Verses: Verses 35-41
- 108 Verses: Verses 43-46
- 108 Verses: Verses 48-52
- 108 Verses: Verses 52-53
- 108 Verses: Verses 54-56
- 108 Verses: Verses 57-62
- 108 Verses: Verses 63-70
- 108 Verses: Verses 7-9
- 108 Verses: Verses 71-76
- 108 Verses: Verses 76-77
- 108 Verses: Verses 78-81
- 108 Verses: Verses 8-9
- 108 Verses: Verses 84-99
- 37 Practices: Verses 1-3
- 37 Practices: Verses 1-3
- 37 Practices: Verses 10-15
- 37 Practices: Verses 11-16
- 37 Practices: Verses 16-21
- 37 Practices: Verses 17-19
- 37 Practices: Verses 22-24
- 37 Practices: Verses 25-28
- 37 Practices: Verses 29-37
- 37 Practices: Verses 4-6
- 37 Practices: Verses 4-8
- 37 Practices: Verses 7-9
- 37 Practices: Verses 9-10
- A bodhisattva’s generosity
- Accepting defeat and offering the victory
- Accumulating merit
- Acknowledging our anger
- Acting with wisdom and compassion
- Advantages of bodhicitta
- Advantages of cherishing others
- Afflictions arise with a happy or angry mind
- All others are just like me
- An inherently existent self
- Antidote for multiple mood swings in a day
- Antidotes to arrogance
- Antidotes to attachment
- Antidotes to jealousy
- Antidotes to the judgmental mind
- Apologizing and forgiving
- Applying the teachings on karma in our lives
- Applying the teachings to our minds
- Applying thought training in daily life
- Aspiring for freedom: why worldly pleasures won’t cut it
- Attachment and death meditation
- Attachment endangers us
- Attachment to this life
- Attachment, anger and confusion
- Avoiding disturbing distractions
- Bad friends
- Bad friends and why we don’t need them
- Banishing bad habits
- Base of pure ethics
- Basis of designation
- Benefits of mind training
- Betrayal
- Betrayal of trust
- Bodhicitta, the best gift
- Bringing an awareness of karma into our lives
- Buddha nature
- Calming the mind, simplifying our lives
- Causes of the afflictions
- Changing habits through practice
- Changing relationships
- Chasing rainbows
- Cherish spiritual teachers
- Compassion for self and others
- Compassion seeing emptiness
- Concentration, wisdom, and spiritual teachers
- Confronting and averting afflictions
- Consumerism and the environment
- Contemplating death
- Craving and clinging at the time of death
- Creating the causes for good results
- Cultivating bodhicitta
- Cultivating clear communication
- Cultivating compassion
- Cultivating conventional bodhicitta
- Cultivating positive habits
- Cultivating ultimate bodhicitta
- Dealing with habitual emotional patterns
- Death and the defects of samsara
- Decreasing miserliness and increasing generosity
- Dedicating our merit
- Developing a Dharma mind
- Developing bodhicitta
- Developing concentration takes practice
- Developing equanimity
- Developing equanimity
- Different views of selflessness
- Disadvantages of the self-centered attitude
- Discussion on kindness of others
- Do not retaliate
- Don’t Believe Everything You Think
- Don’t let success go to your head
- Eight verses of mind training: Verse 1
- Eight verses of mind training: Verse 2
- Eight verses of mind training: Verses 3-6
- Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
- Eight verses of thought transformation
- Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
- Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 1-3
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 4-5
- Eight worldly concerns
- Emptiness
- Emptiness of phenomena
- Emptiness: Everything depends on our mind
- Ending the pity party
- Equalizing self and others
- Equalizing self and others
- Equanimity and the kindness of others
- Eroding self-centeredness
- Establishing selflessness
- Ethical conduct and emptiness
- Exchanging self for others
- Facing blame
- Facing our faults
- Fame and wealth can corrupt your mind
- Far-reaching wisdom
- Five powers at death
- Five powers in daily life
- Four types of nirvana
- Four-point contemplation of karma
- Freedom from the Four Fixations
- Give your mind something virtuous to do with suffering
- Giving our virtue
- Giving to others
- Giving to those who harm us
- Giving up bad friends
- Giving up clinging to this life
- Good Karma: A bodhisattva’s courage
- Good Karma: A short overview of the Buddhist worldview
- Good Karma: Buddha nature
- Good Karma: Dealing with betrayal of trust
- Good Karma: Determining to maintain good character wherever we are
- Good Karma: Embracing hardship for others’ sake
- Good Karma: Facing hardship for the Dharma
- Good Karma: Helpful and unhelpful friends
- Good Karma: Intro to karma and its effects
- Good Karma: Karma and its effects
- Good Karma: Karmic consequences of the ten nonvirtues
- Good Karma: Offering our help to all beings
- Good Karma: Q&A on karma
- Good Karma: Results of transgressing ethical commitments
- Good Karma: Serving others instead of exploiting them
- Good Karma: Solving problems at their root
- Good Karma: The causes of happiness and suffering
- Good Karma: The eight worldly concerns
- Good Karma: The four characteristics of karma
- Good Karma: The importance of motivation
- Good Karma: We are not inherently selfish
- Great resolve and bodhicitta
- Guided meditation on cyclic existence
- Guided meditation on Verse 7
- Harsh words
- Having a steady mind
- Hearing, thinking, meditating
- Heart advice for dealing with difficulties
- History of the thought training teachings
- Holding onto a position because of pride
- Holding others as supreme
- Holding others dear
- How intoxicants affect mindfulness and introspective awareness
- How karma influences our lives
- How things exist
- How to recognize or identify our afflictions
- How to study, reflect, and meditate
- Identifying the real source of our difficulties
- Ignorance and karma
- Illusion-like appearance
- Influencing and benefitting others
- Ingratitude
- Introduction to the nine-point death meditation
- Introduction to the text
- Is our practice going in the right direction?
- Joyous effort
- Joyous effort, not perfection
- Justifying our anger
- Karma and the three lower realms
- Karma, samsara, and dukkha
- Karma: The boomerang effect
- Let go of the eight worldly concerns
- Lineage of mind training practices
- Living a life that matters
- Living with loss
- Looking at death and dealing with loss
- Love and compassion
- Love without expectations
- Maintaining a steady practice
- Meaningful Dharma practice
- Meditating on the media
- Meditating on the results of karma
- Meditating on three types of compassion
- Meditation on giving our body
- Meditation on love
- Meditation on our precious human life
- Meditation outline for “The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”
- Meditation: Cultivating serenity
- Merely imputed New Year’s Eve
- Methods to cultivate compassion
- Mind as the source of happiness and pain
- Mind training for a modern world
- Mindfulness
- Misperception of how things appear
- More precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel
- Not diminishing ourselves
- Observing your own mind
- Opening our heart through generosity
- Opportunities that counteract attachment
- Opportunities to grow
- Our contribution to peace
- Our precious human life
- Our real enemy
- Our supreme teachers
- Overcoming self-centeredness
- Parting from the Four Attachments
- Parting from the four clingings
- Parting from the Four Clingings
- Planting seeds for the life we want
- Power of prayer and familiarity
- Practical advice on attachment and pilgrimage
- Practicing “The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”
- Practicing the Dharma in difficult times
- Practicing the five forces in life and at death
- Practicing with adversity
- Practicing with those who harm us
- Precious human life
- Precious human life and how to use it wisely
- Precious treasures
- Pride and humility
- Problems and unpleasant experiences
- Problems are not necessarily bad
- Prologue: Praise to Guru Manjushri
- Purification
- Putting bodhicitta into practice
- Rarity of a precious human life
- Relying on a spiritual friend
- Renouncing dukkha
- Repaying kindness, love, and compassion
- Replacing self-centeredness with cherishing others
- Reputation and reward
- Resistance to practicing tonglen
- Restricting the environment
- Review of generosity and ethical conduct
- Review: Advantages of bodhicitta
- Review: Bodhicitta and the afflictions
- Review: Conventional bodhicitta
- Review: Cultivating conventional bodhicitta
- Review: Death and impermanence
- Review: Equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Review: Four preliminary practices
- Review: Ignorance and tenet systems
- Review: Karma
- Review: Object of negation
- Review: Our precious human life
- Review: Precepts of mind training
- Review: Purpose of the mind training practice
- Review: Taking and giving
- Review: Teachings on emptiness
- Review: The disadvantages of cyclic existence
- Review: The five powers at death
- Review: The five powers during life
- Review: The self-centered thought
- Review: Transforming adversity
- Review: Who to cherish
- Reward and respect
- Seeing the kindness of our parents
- Self-centeredness and compassion
- Selflessness of phenomena
- Selflessness, karma, and rebirth
- Sense pleasure won’t quench your thirst
- Serenity and insight
- Shifting from the self-centered thought to cherishing others
- Six types of inverted deeds
- Skillfully dealing with problems
- Squashing our ego
- Stages of the path to enlightenment
- Stopping the harm: Practicing ethical conduct
- Striking at the vital point
- Suffering is like a dream
- Sweet and endearing mothers
- Taking advantage of our precious human life
- Taking and giving meditation
- Taking on the suffering of others
- Taking problems onto the spiritual path
- Taking responsibility for our experiences
- Teachings on emptiness
- Tenet schools and selflessness
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verse 22
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 1-4
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 10-16
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 16-20
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 20-21
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 23-26
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 27-32
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 33-37
- The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 5-9
- The altruistic intention
- The basic principles of karma
- The best antidote
- The best conduct
- The best discipline
- The best ethical conduct
- The best fortitude
- The best giving
- The best higher attainment
- The best joyous effort
- The best learning
- The best sign of higher attainment
- The bodhisattva’s job is to wake us up
- The Buddhist worldview
- The causes of samsara
- The commitments of mind training
- The commitments of mind training
- The dead end of jealousy
- The determination to be free from samsara
- The disadvantages of cyclic existence: Part 1
- The disadvantages of cyclic existence: Part 2
- The dukkha of pain and change
- The dukkha of pervasive conditioning
- The effects of self-centeredness
- The eight worldly concerns
- The emptiness of the giver, the giving, and the receiver
- The faults of self-centeredness
- The foundation of mind training
- The four characteristics of karma and purification
- The four preparations
- The four types of clinging
- The four types of karmic results
- The gateway to the Buddhadharma
- The importance of knowing our self worth
- The importance of motivation
- The internal judge and jury
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others and wanting to repay it
- The kindness of our parents
- The maxims of mind training
- The measure of a trained mind
- The media
- The Middle Way view
- The mind and suffering
- The mirror of the Dharma
- The misery of attachment
- The pain of harsh words
- The path to awakening: An overview
- The poisons of anger, attachment and ignorance
- The precepts of mind training
- The preliminaries of mind training
- The purpose of spiritual practice
- The reality of our existence
- The relationship with our parents
- The root of samsara
- The self and the aggregates
- The shaper of our life and death
- The six preparatory practices
- The source of happiness and misery
- The teaching of no-self
- The thief of self-centered thought
- The three poisons
- The three types of attachment
- The time for emptiness
- The universal antidote
- The weight of karmic actions
- The welfare of all beings
- The wheel of karmic actions and results
- The wheel of karmic cause and effect
- This precious human life
- Thought training when working with others
- Thought transformation: Changing perspective when problems arise
- Through what is emptiness known?
- Tonglen and social problems
- Tonglen: Taking and giving
- Tonglen: Taking and giving
- Training in conventional and ultimate bodhicitta
- Training in the five powers
- Training in the five powers
- Transforming adverse circumstances
- Transforming Adversities into the Path
- Transforming adversity
- Transforming adversity into joy and courage
- Transforming adversity into the path
- Transforming adversity Into the path
- Transforming arrogance and anger
- Transforming attachment and hostility
- Transforming problems into compassion
- Transforming suffering
- Transforming the Complaining Mind
- Transforming the judgmental mind
- Transforming the mind
- Transforming the mind through taking and giving
- Transforming the self-centered mind
- Turning to the Buddhist path for spiritual guidance
- Ultimate and conventional existence
- Understanding and transforming difficulties
- Understanding and transforming our difficulties
- Untainted meditation
- Using difficulties to uplift your practice
- Using the principles of karma to our advantage
- Verse 40: The one who infects others’ minds
- Verse 1: The realms of samsara
- Verse 10: Misleading friends
- Verse 100: The armor of fortitude
- Verse 101: The magical horse
- Verse 102: The sparkling mirror
- Verse 103: The freedom of realizing emptiness
- Verse 104: The most amazing drama
- Verse 105: The excellent action
- Verse 106: Transcending the indulgences of samsara and nirvana
- Verse 107: The legs and eyes of the path
- Verse 108: The root of all goodness
- Verse 11: False friends
- Verse 12: Attachment to comfort
- Verse 13: Attachment to temporary pleasures
- Verse 16: The load of contaminated aggregates
- Verse 17: The liar
- Verse 18: The sharp weapon that slices hearts
- Verse 19: Criticism, babble and chatter
- Verse 2: Attachment to sense pleasures
- Verse 20: The evil spirits that devour others
- Verse 21: Working for a corrupt boss
- Verse 22: The hungry ghost mind
- Verse 23: The ignorant beast
- Verse 24: Our noisy minds
- Verse 25: The negative omen of exaggeration
- Verse 26: Small negativities, strong poisons
- Verse 27: Guarding our spiritual precepts
- Verse 28: Getting rid of body odor
- Verse 29: Vulgar and insensitive actions
- Verse 3: The fire of anger
- Verse 30: The navigator in samsara
- Verse 31: The invisible disease
- Verse 32: The master executioner
- Verse 33: The one who suffers the most
- Verse 34: The most evil of all beings in the world
- Verse 35: The biggest loser
- Verse 36: The slave owned by everyone in the world
- Verse 37: The one who is most ridiculed
- Verse 38: The skilled merchant
- Verse 39: The poorest of all beings
- Verse 4: The darkness of ignorance
- Verse 41: The most beautiful to worldly people
- Verse 42: The most vain of all beings in the world
- Verse 43: Bearing small ordeals
- Verse 44: The powerful demon of doubt
- Verse 45: The mule
- Verse 46: The competitor disliked by all
- Verse 47: The great fault
- Verse 48: The smelly fart
- Verse 49: The parrot
- Verse 5: The wild horse of pride
- Verse 50: The cantankerous old dog
- Verse 51: Destroying the garden of happiness
- Verse 52: The antidote to apathy
- Verse 53: The wandering mind
- Verse 54: The cunning thief
- Verse 55: The crazy elephant
- Verse 56: The deadly sword
- Verse 57: Fishing in a dry riverbed
- Verse 58: The slippery slope of worldly gain
- Verse 59: Empty-handed in samsara
- Verse 6: The mischievous slanderer, jealousy
- Verse 60: A pure land of joy
- Verse 61: A reliable protector from suffering
- Verse 62: The wish-fulfilling jewel
- Verse 63: The currency that eradicates all poverty
- Verse 64: Our supreme friend
- Verse 65: Resting the weary mind
- Verse 66: The eye of wisdom
- Verse 67: The wise and skilled teacher
- Verse 68: The one with intense discipline
- Verse 69: The best speaker of all
- Verse 7: The enemies of happiness and prosperity
- Verse 70: The most respected of all beings
- Verse 71: Living an exemplary life
- Verse 72: The sweetest conversation
- Verse 73: Buddhas-to-be
- Verse 74: Every moment matters
- Verse 75: True heroes
- Verse 76: The most powerful army
- Verse 76: The power of spiritual integrity
- Verse 77: Freedom from fear
- Verse 78: The mind of equanimity
- Verse 79: Freeing the mind from attachment
- Verse 8: The prison of personal entanglements
- Verse 80: Dwelling in sublime joy
- Verse 81: The flying horse
- Verse 82: Impulsiveness
- Verse 83: Examining the self-centered mind
- Verse 84: Good role models
- Verse 85: Precious and rare medicine
- Verse 86: Powerful ambrosia
- Verse 87: Protecting the Dharma jewel
- Verse 88: Seeds of joy
- Verse 89: The supreme possession
- Verse 9: The chains that bind us
- Verse 90: The auspicious omen of love
- Verse 91: Guarding our body, speech, and mind
- Verse 92: The basis of good and evil
- Verse 93: Elders with wisdom
- Verse 94: Those with right livelihood
- Verse 95: The wisest amongst learned beings
- Verse 96: Do not do unto others
- Verse 97: The supreme goodness
- Verse 98: The supreme treasure
- Verse 99: The magical ritual
- Verses 14-15: The trickster and the exhibitionist
- Virtuous activities and thoughts
- Virtuous and nonvirtuous paths of action
- Watch what you’re doing: your actions have results
- What exactly is ethics?
- What ignorance is
- What patience feels like
- What suffering does
- What’s wrong with a little bit of pleasure?
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Introduction
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Introduction and Verses 1-14
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verse 104-Conclusion
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 1-6
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 10-15
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 101-104
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 102-105 (Review)
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 104-106
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 105-107
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 107-111
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 111-113
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 114-Colophon
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 15-23
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 16-21
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 22-24
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 24-34
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 25-28
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 29-33
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 34-37
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 35-42
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 38-42
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 43-45
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 43-49
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 46-48
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 49-55
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 50-62
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 56-59
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 60-63
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 63-71
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 64-66
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 67-69
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 69-72
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 7-10
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 72-80
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 73-76
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 77-80
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 81-83
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 81-92
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 84-85
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 86-89
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 90-91
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 92-94
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 93-98
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 95-98
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 99-100
- Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 99-104
- Where is attachment?
- Who am I?
- Who are you judging?
- Who are you, really?
- Who’s walking?
- Why be afraid of anger?
- Why does this get to me?
- Why get angry?
- Why should we train the mind?
- Wisdom fear of samsara
- Working on the mind
- Working with anger
- Working with criticism
- Working with disturbing emotions
- Working with obstacles on the path
- Zipping our lips
Three Principal Aspects of the Path
Transforming War and Terrorism
Vajrasattva
- “Bodhisattvas’ Confession of Ethical Downfalls”
- 37 Practices: Verses 1-3
- 37 Practices: Verses 10-15
- 37 Practices: Verses 16-21
- 37 Practices: Verses 22-24
- 37 Practices: Verses 25-28
- 37 Practices: Verses 29-37
- 37 Practices: Verses 4-6
- 37 Practices: Verses 7-9
- A content and disciplined retreat mind
- A reliable guide
- A vast perspective
- Alternative ways to deal with afflictions
- Answering questions from retreatants
- Applying antidotes to the afflictions
- Appreciating the time for analysis
- Becoming Vajrasattva
- Being a friend to yourself
- Believing what others believe about us
- Benefits of the retreat from afar
- Bodhicitta
- Collective karma and negativities to confess
- Communicating with a Dharma friend who has dementia
- Confessing ethical downfalls
- Confession of negativities
- Confidence in purification
- Contemplating causality
- Create karma, accumulate merit, apply antidote
- Cultivating a bodhicitta motivation
- Cultivating love on Valentine’s Day
- Dealing with spirits and sickness
- Dealing with the craving for excitement
- Debrief after retreat
- Dedicating for awakening
- Dedication and rejoicing
- Denial of death
- Developing a relationship with Vajrasattva
- Discriminating wisdom
- Dropping our garbage
- Emptiness and conceptual designation
- Ethical conduct in the workplace
- Explanation of the Vajrasattva sadhana
- Feeling bad helps our practice
- Feelings and the yo-yo mind
- Finding refuge in Vajrasattva
- Generating regret
- Gratitude to retreatants from afar
- Guided meditation on Vajrasattva
- Guilt, shame, and forgiveness
- Happiness and pleasures
- How are we different from turkeys?
- How do I know that I have purified?
- How karma works
- How purification works
- How renunciation brings happiness
- How samsara evolves
- How to make the most of Retreat from Afar
- How we create negative karma
- Ignorance, anger, purification
- Initial experiences of retreatants
- Introduction to the practice
- Introduction to Vajrasattva retreat
- Investigating blame
- Just go free-form
- Karma with holy beings and teachers
- Karma with teachers and parents
- Karma, formative action, and volitional factors
- Keep on going
- Lama Tsongkhapa’s kindness
- Learning to let go during purification
- Letting go of identities
- Life after retreat
- Life support or not?
- Making friends with ourselves
- Making friends with ourselves
- Meeting Vajrasattva
- More thoughts on ethical conduct in the workplace
- On vacation with Vajrasattva
- Once you start, never stop
- Our motivation for practice
- Panic fear, wisdom fear, and the adrenaline rush
- Path of purification: Daily practice
- Path of purification: Vajrasattva practice
- Peeling away the view of permanence
- Physical prison versus samsaric prison
- Power of regret: Identifying the causes
- Power of regret: Understanding karma
- Power of remedial action: Methods
- Power of remedial action: The antidote
- Power of resolve: Abandoning non-virtue
- Power of resolve: Becoming Vajrasattva
- Power of resolve: Rooted in regret
- Preciousness of the opportunity for retreat
- Preparing for Vajrasattva retreat
- Preparing the mind for practice
- Purification and emptiness
- Purification and non-negotiables
- Purifying harsh speech and idle talk
- Purifying heavy karma
- Purifying lying and divisive speech
- Purifying non-virtue: Coveting
- Purifying non-virtue: Karmic results
- Purifying non-virtue: Killing and stealing
- Purifying non-virtue: Malice
- Purifying non-virtue: Wrong views
- Purifying non-virtues of mind
- Purifying through Vajrasattva
- Questions about initiation and meditation
- Questions on Vajrasattva purification
- Rejoicing in retreat
- Remembering to take the medicine
- Responding to pleasant feelings
- Retreat motivation
- Reviewing behavior patterns
- Spiritual washing machine
- Stories about Lama Yeshe
- Taking refuge from the heart
- The 100-syllable mantra
- The emptiness of identities and nonvirtue
- The Five Dhyani Buddhas
- The four opponent powers
- The four opponent powers
- The four opponent powers for purification
- The four opponent powers in daily life
- The four opponent powers: Part 1
- The four opponent powers: Part 2
- The general characteristics of karma
- The mark of a successful life
- The meaning of karma
- The power of determination
- The power of determination
- The power of regret
- The power of regret: Our motivations
- The power of reliance
- The power of reliance: Bodhicitta
- The power of reliance: Refuge
- The power of remedial action
- The power of restoring the relationship
- The ten non-virtuous actions
- The ten nonvirtues
- Tobacco, firearms and food
- Transforming unpleasant feelings
- Unloading the garbage mind
- Vajrasattva guided meditation
- Vajrasattva meditation and recitation
- Vajrasattva practice and the four opponent powers
- Vajrasattva practice: Overview and the power of reliance
- Vajrasattva practice: The power of regret
- Vajrasattva practice: The powers of remedial action and determination
- Vajrasattva purification practice
- Vajrasattva reflections
- Vajrasattva sadhana
- Visualization
- Visualizing Vajrasattva
- What are your non-negotiables?
- What is retreat?
- What it means to take refuge
- What to do after retreat
- Why do we suffer?
- Working with sexual energy
Vajrasattva New Year's Retreat 2010-11
Vajrasattva New Year's Retreat 2012-13
Vajrasattva New Year's Retreat 2016-17
Vajrasattva New Year's Retreat 2018-19
Vajrasattva New Year's Retreat 2019-20
Vajrasattva New Year's Retreat 2020-21
Vajrasattva New Year's Retreat 2021-22
Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2005
Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2005-06
Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2011-12
Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014
Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2019
Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path
Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice
Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature
- Afflictions and karma, their seeds and latencies
- Afflictions and the nature of the mind
- Afflictions are the enemy
- Afflictions are weak
- Afflictions, our real enemy
- Afflictive views
- Aging or death
- Applying karma to our lives
- Are sentient beings already Buddhas?
- Arya disposition and Buddha nature
- Auxiliary afflictions
- Auxiliary afflictions in the Pali tradition
- Awareness of our buddha nature eliminates hindrances
- Benefits of meditating on the the 12 links
- Birth
- Bodhisattvas’ path to awakening
- Buddha nature
- Buddhahood depends on sentient beings
- Causal clear light mind
- Clinging and renewed existence
- Clusters of afflictions
- Compassion and the determination to be free
- Concentration, knowledge & vision and disenchantment
- Consciousness
- Conventional and ultimate analysis
- Counterforces to the afflictions
- Craving
- Craving and clinging
- Cultivating excellent qualities
- Dependent arising
- Dormant and manifest consciousnesses
- Eighty-four thousand afflictions
- Equality of samsara and nirvana
- Equality of samsara and nirvana
- Examples of how we cycle
- Excellent qualities can be built up cumulatively
- Excellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
- Excellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
- Excellent qualities can be enhanced
- Explicit and implicit presentations of the 12 links
- Factors causing afflictions to arise
- Feeling
- Feelings and the ethical dimension of afflictions
- Fetters and pollutants
- Finding true happiness
- First-link ignorance
- Formative action
- Four attributes of true cessations
- Four attributes of true duhkha
- Four attributes of true origins
- Four attributes of true paths
- Four puzzling points
- Freedom from cyclic existence
- Having-ceased
- How to study the teachings
- Is liberation possible?
- Is liberation possible?
- Karma and our environment
- Karma in samsara and beyond
- Kinds of duhkha
- Levels of mind
- Like gold in filth
- Like illusions
- Mind and the external world
- More on seeds and latencies
- Nagarjuna’s analysis of arising
- Name and form
- Nature of the mind
- Nine similes for Tathāgatagarbha
- Nirvana
- Nirvana as the object of meditation
- Nirvana in the Pali tradition
- Nominally existent self
- Nothing is to be removed
- One taste
- Other types of afflictions
- Our human value
- Overcoming the four distorted conceptions
- Primordially pure awareness
- Q&A on the 12 links of dependent origination
- Questions and answers on meditation
- Realms of existence
- Reflection on cultivating excellent qualities
- Renewed existence
- Review of Buddha nature
- Review of feeling
- Review of tenets and buddha nature
- Review of the four truths
- Review of the self
- Review of true duhkha
- Rigpa
- Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha nature
- Six sources
- Sources, contact, feeling
- Subtlest clear light mind
- The “Ye Dharma Dharani”
- The attributes of the four truths
- The Buddha’s omniscient mind
- The four maras
- The four truths
- The mind and its potential
- The mind’s potential in the Pali tradition
- The order in which afflictions arise
- The origin of duhkha
- The potential for liberation
- The power of afflictions and purification
- The purity of emptiness
- The purity of the mind
- The root afflictions: Anger
- The root afflictions: Arrogance
- The root afflictions: Attachment
- The root afflictions: Ignorance
- The root of samsara
- The two obscurations
- Three aspects of the Tathagatagarbha
- Three questions about the self
- Transcendental dependent origination
- Transforming and naturally abiding Buddha nature
- True cessations
- True duhkha
- Turning the Dharma wheel and buddha nature
- Types of duhkha
- Types of nirvana
- Ultimate nature of the twelve links
- Unborn clear light mind
- Understanding ignorance
- Using the subtlest clear light mind on the path
- View of a personal identity
- Virtue, nonvirtue, merit, and roots of nonvirtue
- What obscures our buddha nature
- Who experiences the 12 links?
Volume 5 In Praise of Great Compassion
Volume 6 Courageous Compassion
Volume 7 Searching for the Self
Western Buddhist Monastic Gatherings
Wheel of Sharp Weapons 2004-06
Wheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat 2004
Wheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat 2014
White Tara Grief and Resilience Retreat 2024 with Venerable Sangye Khadro
White Tara Weeklong Retreat 2017
White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11
Wisdom
- “Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness”: Talk and book launch
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questions 1-3
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questions 4-7
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questions 8-12
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 8 questions 1-4
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz 8 questions 5-9
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 2 questions 10-18
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 2 questions 19-21
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 3 questions 1-3
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 3 questions 4-6
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 3 questions 7-12
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 11-14
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 15-19
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 3-4
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 5-7
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4 questions 8-10
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 4-5
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 5 questions 7-12
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 6 questions 1-7
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz part 6 questions 8-12
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions (continued)
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions 1-7
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions 16-19
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions 19-22 and part 2, 1-9
- “Precious Garland” review: Quiz questions 8-15
- A bucket in a well
- A defender’s four answers
- A graded range of consciousnesses
- A proper motivation
- A refutation of Vaisesika soteriology
- A solid concrete “I” does not exist
- A summary of previous explanations
- Abandoning nonvirtue, practicing virtue
- Abandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 1
- Abandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 2
- Abandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 3
- Absorbing yourself in ultimate love
- Absurd consequences
- Advice for gathering the collections of merit and wisdom
- Afflictions, mind, and the brain
- Afflictive doubts, afflictive views
- Agent, action, and object
- An introduction to Tibetan Buddhist debate
- Analysis of sense perception versus thought
- Analyzing grudge holding
- Analyzing the basis of self
- Analyzing the terrorist
- Apperceptive direct perceiver
- Applying emptiness to our lives
- Appreciating our opportunities
- Appreciation and mindfulness
- Apprehending objects and the impact of interrelatedness
- Ascertaining the definition in the definiendum
- Atoms and breaths
- Attachment
- Attachment, grasping, and substantial existence
- Attention and aspiration
- Avoiding the extreme of nihilism
- Believing in something that is not real
- Benefits of cultivating bodhicitta
- Benefits of studying emptiness
- Bodhicitta, the most meaningful pursuit
- Body isn’t mind’s cooperative condition
- Boundless wisdom and compassion
- Buddha potential
- Buddha’s infinite accustomation to compassion
- Buddhism, science, and mind
- Buddhist Advice for Ruling a Kingdom
- Buddhist ontology
- Buddhist psychology: Mind and mental factors
- Buddhist tenet systems: origin and background
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 1
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 2
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 3
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 4
- Buddhist tenet systems: Sprititual disposition and Buddha nature
- Buddhist tenet systems: What is the person?
- Buddhist tenet systems: Zeroing in on the correct view
- Causes and conditions for enlightenment
- Challengers and defenders
- Challenging self view
- Chapter 1: Abandoning belief in permanence
- Chapter 1: Upper rebirth and highest good
- Chapter 1: Verse 80
- Chapter 1: Verses 1-10
- Chapter 1: Verses 1-8
- Chapter 1: Verses 10-13
- Chapter 1: Verses 11-24
- Chapter 1: Verses 14-19
- Chapter 1: Verses 17-25
- Chapter 1: Verses 2-3
- Chapter 1: Verses 20-24
- Chapter 1: Verses 25-26
- Chapter 1: Verses 27-32
- Chapter 1: Verses 33-36
- Chapter 1: Verses 36-38
- Chapter 1: Verses 39-44
- Chapter 1: Verses 4-9
- Chapter 1: Verses 45-48
- Chapter 1: Verses 49-56
- Chapter 1: Verses 57-62
- Chapter 1: Verses 63-68
- Chapter 1: Verses 69-75
- Chapter 1: Verses 76-80
- Chapter 1: Verses 81-82
- Chapter 1: Verses 82-86
- Chapter 1: Verses 86-92
- Chapter 1: Verses 9-16
- Chapter 1: Verses 93-100
- Chapter 10: Quiz review part 1
- Chapter 10: Quiz review part 2
- Chapter 10: Quiz review part 3
- Chapter 10: Refuting misconceptions of the self
- Chapter 10: Verse 247
- Chapter 10: Verses 226-228
- Chapter 10: Verses 229–237
- Chapter 10: Verses 236-246
- Chapter 10: Verses 238-246
- Chapter 10: Verses 247-250
- Chapter 10: Verses 248-250
- Chapter 11: Quiz review part 1
- Chapter 11: Quiz review part 2
- Chapter 11: Refuting truly existent time
- Chapter 11: Summarizing verse
- Chapter 11: Verses 251-255
- Chapter 11: Verses 251-258
- Chapter 11: Verses 258-262
- Chapter 11: Verses 259-265
- Chapter 11: Verses 263-265
- Chapter 11: Verses 266-274
- Chapter 11: Verses 266-275
- Chapter 12: Quiz review part 1
- Chapter 12: Quiz review part 2
- Chapter 12: Refuting wrong views
- Chapter 12: Verses 277-278
- Chapter 12: Verses 278-280
- Chapter 12: Verses 279-283
- Chapter 12: Verses 281-285
- Chapter 12: Verses 284-290
- Chapter 12: Verses 286-295
- Chapter 12: Verses 291-298
- Chapter 12: Verses 295-300
- Chapter 13: Refuting truly existent sense organs and objects
- Chapter 13: Verse 301
- Chapter 13: Verse 301-306
- Chapter 13: Verses 307-310
- Chapter 13: Verses 307-311
- Chapter 13: Verses 311-319
- Chapter 13: Verses 312-320
- Chapter 13: Verses 320-324
- Chapter 13: Verses 320-325
- Chapter 14: Refuting extreme conceptions
- Chapter 14: Verse 344
- Chapter 14: Verses 326-334
- Chapter 14: Verses 327-328
- Chapter 14: Verses 328-337
- Chapter 14: Verses 335-343
- Chapter 14: Verses 338-346
- Chapter 14: Verses 345-347
- Chapter 14: Verses 347-350
- Chapter 14: Verses 348-350
- Chapter 15: Refuting truly existent characteristics
- Chapter 15: Verses 354-358
- Chapter 15: Verses 359-360
- Chapter 15: Verses 361-368
- Chapter 15: Verses 351-359
- Chapter 15: Verses 360-365
- Chapter 15: Verses 366-375
- Chapter 15: Verses 369-375
- Chapter 16: Refuting remaining counter-arguments
- Chapter 16: Verses 376-386
- Chapter 16: Verses 383-394
- Chapter 16: Verses 387-400
- Chapter 16: Verses 395-400
- Chapter 2: Abandoning belief in pleasure
- Chapter 2: Summary and discussion
- Chapter 2: Verses 101-108
- Chapter 2: Verses 109-114
- Chapter 2: Verses 115-126
- Chapter 2: Verses 124-136
- Chapter 2: Verses 137-143
- Chapter 2: Verses 144-158
- Chapter 2: Verses 158-171
- Chapter 2: Verses 171-176
- Chapter 2: Verses 177-189
- Chapter 2: Verses 190-200
- Chapter 2: Verses 26 – 35
- Chapter 2: Verses 36-38
- Chapter 2: Verses 39-50
- Chapter 3: Abandoning belief in cleanliness
- Chapter 3: Verses 201-213
- Chapter 3: Verses 212-214
- Chapter 3: Verses 214-230
- Chapter 3: Verses 215-223
- Chapter 3: Verses 231-245
- Chapter 3: Verses 246-258
- Chapter 3: Verses 259-267
- Chapter 3: Verses 268-271
- Chapter 3: Verses 272-280
- Chapter 3: Verses 281-287
- Chapter 3: Verses 287-293
- Chapter 3: Verses 292-300
- Chapter 3: Verses 51-66
- Chapter 3: Verses 64-72
- Chapter 3: Verses 67–74
- Chapter 4 review: Verses 365-398
- Chapter 4: Abandoning pride
- Chapter 4: Verses 301-311
- Chapter 4: Verses 311-322
- Chapter 4: Verses 322-328
- Chapter 4: Verses 327-339
- Chapter 4: Verses 339-348
- Chapter 4: Verses 349-355
- Chapter 4: Verses 356-363
- Chapter 4: Verses 364-369
- Chapter 4: Verses 370-381
- Chapter 4: Verses 382-391
- Chapter 4: Verses 392-400
- Chapter 4: Verses 85-92
- Chapter 4: Verses 85–89
- Chapter 4: Verses 90–100
- Chapter 4: Verses 93-100
- Chapter 5: Engaging in the bodhisattva deeds
- Chapter 5: Verse 440
- Chapter 5: Verses 101-102
- Chapter 5: Verses 103–106
- Chapter 5: Verses 107-112
- Chapter 5: Verses 107-114
- Chapter 5: Verses 113-117
- Chapter 5: Verses 115-122
- Chapter 5: Verses 117-125
- Chapter 5: Verses 401-405
- Chapter 5: Verses 405-412
- Chapter 5: Verses 413-423
- Chapter 5: Verses 424-433
- Chapter 5: Verses 434-437
- Chapter 5: Verses 438-439
- Chapter 5: Verses 441-446
- Chapter 5: Verses 447-452
- Chapter 5: Verses 453-458
- Chapter 5: Verses 459-460
- Chapter 5: Verses 461-462
- Chapter 5: Verses 463-466
- Chapter 5: Verses 466-467
- Chapter 5: Verses 468-470
- Chapter 5: Verses 471-475
- Chapter 5: Verses 476-479
- Chapter 5: Verses 477-484
- Chapter 5: Verses 484-489
- Chapter 5: Verses 488-491
- Chapter 5: Verses 491-492
- Chapter 5: Verses 493-500
- Chapter 6: Abandoning disturbing emotions
- Chapter 6: Verses 127–135
- Chapter 6: Verses 131-135
- Chapter 6: Verses 135–140
- Chapter 6: Verses 136-138
- Chapter 6: Verses 138-143
- Chapter 6: Verses 141–150
- Chapter 6: Verses 144-149
- Chapter 7: Abandoning attachment to sense objects
- Chapter 7: Verses 151-158
- Chapter 7: Verses 158-165
- Chapter 7: Verses 159-170
- Chapter 7: Verses 166-172
- Chapter 8: Self and emptiness
- Chapter 8: Thoroughly preparing the student
- Chapter 8: Verses 176-178
- Chapter 8: Verses 178-184
- Chapter 8: Verses 179-183
- Chapter 8: Verses 183-184
- Chapter 8: Verses 184-187
- Chapter 8: Verses 185-200
- Chapter 8: Verses 188-190
- Chapter 8: Verses 190-191
- Chapter 8: Verses 192-194
- Chapter 8: Verses 195-196
- Chapter 8: Verses 197-200
- Chapter 9: Quiz answers and discussion
- Chapter 9: Refuting permanent functional phenomena
- Chapter 9: Verses 202-211
- Chapter 9: Verses 205-217
- Chapter 9: Verses 212-218
- Chapter 9: Verses 218-223
- Chapter 9: Verses 219-225
- Chapters 1-2: Verses 25-34
- Chapters 11-12: Verses 275-277
- Chapters 12-13: Verses 299-301
- Chapters 13-14: Verses 325-326
- Chapters 2-3: Verses 45-52
- Chapters 3-4: Verses 73-77
- Chapters 3-4: Verses 75-85
- Chapters 5-6: Verses 123–126
- Chapters 6-7: Verses 150-152
- Chapters 7-8: Verses 171-177
- Chapters 7-8: Verses 173-176
- Chapters 8-9: Verses 200-201
- Chapters 9-10: Verses 224-226
- Choosing your debate partner
- Clarifying misunderstood teachings
- Classification of objects
- Closeness to others
- Comparisons of consciousnesses
- Compassion as an antidote to anger
- Compassion in living and dying
- Complacency, agitation
- Concealment, lethargy, laziness
- Concentration and wisdom
- Conception of “I”
- Conceptual and nonconceptual minds
- Concluding review
- Conditions for practice
- Conflicting views of reality
- Conscientiousness
- Consequences
- Conventional and ultimate bodhicitta
- Conventional and ultimate nature
- Conventional and ultimate truths
- Correct assumer
- Correct reasons in a syllogism
- Correct signs practice and review
- Creating our world: dependent arising
- Creating the causes for happiness
- Creating the causes of happiness
- Cultivating serenity
- Debate in action
- Debate practice continued
- Debate review
- Deepening love and compassion
- Definition of pramana
- Definitions
- Definitions, divisions, and consequences
- Dependence on parts and reasoning of dependent arising
- Dependent arising
- Dependent arising and emptiness
- Dependent arising and emptiness
- Dependent arising and our true nature
- Dependent arising and realism
- Dependent designation
- Dependent designation
- Dependent designation
- Developing a direct realization of emptiness
- Developing calm abiding
- Dharmakirti’s “Pramanavarttika”: Introduction
- Dignaga and Dharmakirti’s intention
- Direct perceivers
- Direct perceivers: sense and mental
- Discovering the source of problems
- Discrimination, intention and contact
- Discussion on Madhyamaka philosophies
- Discussion: Emptiness, ethical conduct, and mindfulness
- Discussion: Emptiness, ignorance, and mental states
- Discussion: Mind-only school
- Discussion: Perceptions and existence
- Diversity and tolerance
- Divisions and illustrations
- Divisions of selfless: Abstract composites
- Divisions of selfless: Consciousness
- Divisions of selfless: Forms
- Divisions of selfless: Phenomena
- Divisions of the selfless
- Divisions of the selfless
- Doubt
- Doubt and correctly assuming consciousness
- Emptiness and bodhicitta
- Emptiness and compassion
- Emptiness and compassion
- Emptiness and impermanence
- Emptiness and the object of negation, part 1
- Emptiness and the object of negation, part 2
- Emptiness and the object of negation, part 3
- Emptiness and the self
- Emptiness does not mean nothingness
- Emptiness in different tenet systems
- Emptiness in everyday life
- Emptiness in everyday life
- Emptiness is in everything around us
- Emptiness of causes and their effects
- Emptiness of self
- Emptiness: Questions and answers
- Epistemological requirements
- Examining conceptual mind and needs
- Excellent causes and results of buddhahood
- Existence of the “I”
- Expectations, fairness, and compassion
- Facsimile direct perceiver and inferential cognizers
- Facsimiles of direct perceivers
- Faith or confidence
- Feeling empathy
- Feelings
- Finding the self
- Five paths, buddhas, and arhats
- Forming a correct syllogism
- Forward pervasion
- Forward system proving the Buddha as authority
- Four kinds of direct perceivers
- Four possibilities
- Four seals, obstacles, and enemies of bodhicitta
- Freeing ourselves and others
- Functioning things
- Gelug
- Gelugpa-Kagyu Mahamudra lineage
- Generating bodhicitta
- Getting in touch with dukkha
- Goals and obscurations
- Having a flexible mind
- Hearers, solitary realizers, bodhisattvas
- Hidden phenomena and manifest phenomena
- Holding wrong ethics, wrong views as supreme
- Holy objects, rebirth, and compassion
- How afflictions manifest
- How do we exist?
- How the afflictions harm us
- How things appear and how they exist
- How to develop wisdom
- How to see yourself as you really are
- Identifying the cause of a future life’s body
- Identifying the causes of samsara
- Identifying types of objects based on cognition
- Ignorance, afflictions, and emptiness
- Impermanent and permanent phenomena
- Imputations by thought
- Imputed and established natures
- Inattentive perceivers
- Inattentive perceptions, doubt, and wrong consciousnesses
- Inferential cognizers and direct perceivers
- Inferential cognizers and obscured phenomena
- Instructions for enhancing the collection of merit
- Integrating emptiness
- Integrity and consideration for others
- Internal matter
- Introduction
- Introduction to Buddhist tenets
- Introduction to direct perceivers
- Introduction to mind and mental factors
- Introduction to the tenets
- Introduction to the two truths
- Is what we think true?
- Jigta
- Jonang
- Joyous effort and pliancy
- Kagyu
- Karma and emptiness
- Karma, impermanence, and cognition
- Know your mind: A general explanation of afflictions
- Know your mind: Direct perceivers and inferential cognizers
- Know your mind: Introduction to minds and mental factors
- Know your mind: Object-ascertaining and virtuous mental factors
- Know your mind: Omnipresent mental factors
- Know your mind: Perception and conception
- Know your mind: Seven types of mind and awareness
- Know your mind: Six root afflictions
- Know your mind: The twenty auxiliary afflictions
- Know your mind: Virtuous mental factors
- Know your mind: What is the mind?
- Lack of faith, forgetfulness, non-introspective alertness
- Lama Zopa on emptiness
- Leading with a compassionate motivation
- Let’s debate!
- Letting go of identities
- Liberation and tenet schools
- Like a bucket in a well
- Love, compassion, and total commitment
- Love, compassion, and wisdom
- Mahamudra in India and Tibet
- Making flawless syllogisms
- Manjushri, the special deity of debate
- Mapping the Buddhist path onto combating the afflictions
- Meditating on emptiness
- Meditating on emptiness using the four-point analysis
- Meditating on no self
- Meditation on emptiness
- Meditation: Searching for the self
- Meditation: Space-like emptiness
- Meditation: The true nature of the self
- Meet people where they are
- Mental consciousness
- Mental states and objects of knowledge
- Middle way school and focusing your mind
- Mind basis of all
- Mind-only school
- Mind-only tenet school: Part 1
- Mind-only tenet school: Part 2
- Mind-only tenet school: Part 3
- Mindfulness and antidotes to hindrances
- Monk chat: Questions about reality and attaining liberation
- More debate practice
- Motivation in practicing virtue
- Motivation to practice
- Mutually inclusive phenomena
- My religion is kindness
- Non-attachment
- Non-attachment and non-hatred
- Non-harmfulness and equanimity
- Non-hatred and non-bewilderment
- Nonassociated compositional factors
- Nonassociated compositional factors that are not persons
- Nonexistents
- Nyingma
- Object ascertaining mental factors
- Object possessors and seven types of cognizers
- Objects of attachment and antidotes
- Omniscient consciousnesses
- One and different
- One and different as subjects
- One and many as predicates
- Others’ refutations
- Our situation in cyclic existence
- Our spiritual goals
- Outline of Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland”
- Outline of the selfless
- Overcoming attachment to identities
- Overview and Chapter 9: Verse 201
- Overview of Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland”
- Parts and wholes
- Path of accumulation and preparation
- Path of no more learning
- Path of seeing and meditation
- Peace and sublimity
- Permanent phenomena and functioning things
- Persons, perceptions, and mental factors
- Practical applications of studying philosophies
- Practical ethics and leadership
- Practical ethics from Nagarjuna
- Practical ethics: Part 1
- Practical ethics: Part 2
- Practice syllogisms
- Practicing the comparison of phenomena
- Practicing the defender’s answers
- Practicing the Dharma
- Practicing the Dharma purely
- Pramanavartika conclusion
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 1
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 2
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 3
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 4
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 5
- Precious Garland review: Characteristics of karma
- Products and nonproduced phenomena
- Profound perfection of wisdom
- Proving four possibilities and mutual exclusion
- Proving mutual inclusion
- Proving past and future lives
- Proving the existence of past and future lives
- Qualities of a reliable teacher
- Questioning appearances
- Questions and answers on karma
- Questions and answers: Existence and tenets
- Quiz questions for Precious Garland: Intro to verse 24
- Quiz questions for Precious Garland: Verses 25-36
- Quiz questions Part 3 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 4 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 5 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 6 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 7 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 8 for Precious Garland
- Quiz questions Part 9 for Precious Garland
- Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 1
- Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 2
- Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 3
- Quiz review: Seven types of cognizers, part 4
- Quiz: Aryadeva’s 400 Stanzas, Chapter 10
- Quiz: Aryadeva’s 400 Stanzas, Chapter 9
- Quiz: Aryadeva’s “400 Stanzas” Chapter 11
- Quiz: Aryadeva’s 400 Stanzas, Chapter 12
- Quiz: Seven types of cognizers
- Quotes about the afflictions
- Reality and appearances
- Realizing the Madhyamaka view
- Reflecting on impermanence
- Reflections on mind training
- Refuting a permanent and impermanent creator
- Refuting incorrect views on the causes of suffering and the afflictions
- Refuting inherent existence
- Refuting that body is the special basis of mind
- Refuting the elements as the cause of afflictions
- Refuting the Samkhyas and theist-ritualists
- Refuting the theist-ritualists and Jainas
- Refuting the Vaisesikas and Samkhyas
- Renunciation and compassion
- Reverse system proving the Buddha as authority
- Reverse system proving the Buddha as authority, part 2
- Review 1 of Chapter 8: Verses 176-183
- Review 1 of Chapter 8: Verses 184-188
- Review 2 of Chapter 8: Verses 176-178
- Review 2 of Chapter 8: Verses 178-183
- Review night
- Review of abstract composites
- Review of Chapter 1
- Review of Chapter 1: Remembering death
- Review of Chapter 2
- Review of Chapter 3
- Review of Chapter 4
- Review of Chapter 5
- Review of Chapter 6: Part 1
- Review of Chapter 6: Part 2
- Review of Chapter 7: Counteracting desire
- Review of Chapter 7: Verses 151-155
- Review of Chapter 7: Verses 156-175
- Review of chapters 11 and 12
- Review of consequences
- Review of definitions
- Review of Definitions
- Review of divisions of the selfless
- Review of external matter
- Review of four possibilities
- Review of functioning things
- Review of internal matter and consciousness
- Review of procedures in debate
- Review of sounds, odors and tastes
- Review of three possibilities
- Review: Chapters 7-8
- Right understanding of emptiness
- Roots of cyclic existence
- Sakya
- Sautrāntika and two truths
- Sautrāntika tenet school: Part 1
- Sautrāntika tenet school: Part 2
- Sautrāntika tenet school: Part 3
- Sautrantika views
- Scripture and reasoning
- Seeing the interdependence of phenomena
- Self and suffering
- Self and suffering, part 2 with questions and answers
- Selflessness of phenomena
- Serenity meditation and the four essential points
- Seven kinds of awareness
- Single and different
- Sounds, odors and tangible objects
- Specifically and generally characterized phenomena
- Spiritual advice on practical matters
- Statements of pervasion
- Statements of pervasion review
- Statements of qualities
- Statements of qualities review
- Statements of qualities review II
- Statements of qualities, Part 2
- Strategies in debate
- Subsequent cognizers
- Subsequent cognizers
- Subtle impermanence
- Sutra school: Phenomena and cognition
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 1
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 2
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 3
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 4
- Syllogisms
- Syllogisms
- Syllogisms review
- Taking refuge
- Ten root afflictions
- Tenet systems and the extremes
- The 12 links of dependent arising
- The advantages of living ethically
- The analogy of a bucket
- The benefits of the study of Dudra
- The body is not the mind’s substantial cause
- The Buddha and the Dharma
- The Buddha as savior
- The Buddha as Sugata
- The Buddha as teacher
- The Buddhist enthymeme
- The Buddhist path and emptiness
- The Buddhist syllogism
- The causes and effects of higher rebirth
- The causes of body and mind
- The causes of higher rebirth and definite goodness
- The challenger responds to the defender
- The clap!
- The comparison of phenomena
- The comparison of phenomena
- The defender’s answers
- The defender’s response
- The definition of substantial cause
- The determination to be free
- The emptiness of beings
- The equivalents of existents
- The four seals
- The fourth distortion
- The great aspirations of bodhisattvas
- The importance of ethical conduct
- The ineffability of emptiness
- The Madhyamaka view
- The Madhyamaka view: A review
- The Madhyamaka view: Questions and answers
- The middle way
- The mind and renunciation
- The mind is the source of happiness
- The nature of pleasure and pain
- The need for insight
- The object of negation
- The omnipresent mental factors
- The opening volleys
- The particulars of the definition
- The person and the aggregates
- The Prasangika view
- The reasons that prove cessation
- The results of negative karma
- The results of the collections of wisdom and merit
- The results of virtue and nonvirtue
- The results of virtue and nonvirtue
- The right view of emptiness
- The root affliction of anger
- The root affliction of attachment
- The secondary afflictions
- The self and the aggregates
- The sixteen aspects of the four truths
- The sixteen distorted ideas
- The sixteen practices for higher rebirth
- The Svatantrika view
- The taking-and-giving meditation
- The three higher trainings
- The three purposes of debate
- The truth of cessation
- The truth of dukkha
- The truth of origination of suffering
- The truth of the origin of suffering
- The two collections prevent physical and mental suffering
- The two truths and dependent arising
- The two truths and different tenets
- The two truths and karma
- The two truths and Tibetan philosophy
- The two truths in the Cittamatra system
- The two truths in the four schools
- The two truths: Conclusion
- The two truths: Conventional existence
- The two truths: Questions and answers
- The two truths: The Sautrantika view
- The two truths: The Svatantrika view
- The Vimalakirti Sutra: Eliminating false conceptualization
- The Vimalakirti Sutra: How to be reborn in a pure land
- The Vimalakirti Sutra: Introduction
- The Vimalakirti Sutra: The two truths
- The virtuous mental factors
- The whole and its parts
- Thought consciousnesses and direct perceivers
- Thought consciousnesses and direct perceivers
- Three beneficial mental factors
- Three kinds of sameness
- Three levels of wisdom: Hearing, thinking, and meditating
- Three types of correct signs
- Three types of dependent arising and how they prove emptiness
- Tips for practice
- To be enjoyed and loved by sentient beings
- Truth of the path
- Twenty secondary afflictions
- Twenty-Verse Prayer from Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland”
- Two truths
- Types of dependent origination
- Types of selflessness
- Ultimate and conventional truths
- Ultimate and conventional truths
- Understanding emptiness, attaining liberation
- Understanding emptiness: Part 1
- Understanding emptiness: Part 2
- Understanding emptiness: Part 3
- Understanding our situation in samsara
- Understanding the self
- Understanding the tenet systems
- Understanding through reasoned logic
- Vaibashika, Sautrantika, and Mind-only
- Vaibhāṣika tenet school: Part 1
- Vaibhāṣika tenet school: Part 2
- Vaibhāṣika tenet school: Part 3
- Valid syllogisms
- Varieties of Madhyamaka
- Virtuous mental factors #2-6
- Virtuous mental factors #7-11
- Virtuous mental factors and root afflictions
- Was the Buddha an activist?
- Western perspectives on Tsongkhapa
- Western philosophy and early Buddhist knowledge
- What is a person?
- What is the mind?
- Why study debate?
- Why the Buddha is an authority
- Why the Madhyamaka view
- Why understanding the truth is needed
- Wisdom in difficult times
- Wrath, vengeance, spite, jealousy
- Wrong consciousness
- Yogic direct perceiver
Wisdom of the Kadam Masters
Working with Emotions
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Foreword by the Dalai Lama
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Introduction
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Living with authenticity
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Preface by Professor Paul Gilbert
- “Living with an Open Heart” book launch
- “Living with an Open Heart”: An introduction
- “Living with an Open Heart”: The vastness of compassion
- “Samsara, Nirvana and Buddha Nature”: Anger and its antidotes
- A commentary on “The Rose”
- A different kind of strength
- A Healthy Diet for the Mind
- A heart of compassion
- A warm heart in a complex world
- Accepting ourselves
- Addressing negative emotions
- Advice on living with an open heart
- An open-hearted life: The meaning of compassion
- Anger
- Anger and the practice of patience
- Anger poisons our happiness
- Anger versus clarity
- Antidotes to anger
- Antidotes to anxiety
- Antidotes to the fear of separation
- Apologizing and forgiving
- Attaining and balancing wealth
- Be your own therapist
- Becoming friends with ourselves
- Becoming friends with ourselves
- Becoming our own best friend
- Being a friend to yourself
- Being responsible for our emotions
- Benefits of compassion
- Beyond Blame
- Bringing compassion into every moment
- Buddhism and consumerism
- Buddhism and therapy
- Building confidence and resilience with joy
- Building confidence to live your life to the fullest
- Building courage and compassion
- Building your inner confidence
- Caring for ourselves and others
- Caught up in consumerism
- Causes of happiness
- Challenges to forgiveness
- Changing perspective to undermine anger
- Clarifying misconceptions about compassion
- Combating anxiety with a meditative mind
- Comparing the Buddhist and scientific views of emotions
- Compassion and empathy
- Compassion and empathy review
- Compassion and ethical living
- Compassion and interdependence
- Compassion and interdependence
- Compassion and personal distress
- Compassion as an antidote to depression
- Compassion as an antidote to low-self esteem
- Compassion as the antidote to the critical, judgmental mind
- Compassion for a happier mind for Turkey
- Compassion for oneself, compassion for others
- Compassion gone awry
- Compassion in action: a life of service
- Compassion manifesting in skillful means
- Compassion, empathy, and attachment
- Compassion, uncertainty, and listening to uncomfortable truths
- Compassion: What it is, what it isn’t
- Compassionate communication
- Compassionate thinking and mentalizing
- Compassionate understanding of emotions
- Competition vs. contentment: Dialogue with Buddhist youths
- Composed compassion
- Confusion about compassion
- Connecting with compassion
- Connecting with others with an open heart
- Considering perceived threats and needs
- Consumerism and happiness
- Conventional and ultimate recovery
- Cooperation and attachment styles
- Counteracting anger with compassion
- Courageous compassion
- Courageous Compassion
- Courageous compassion
- Craving for pleasures
- Creating habits for happiness
- Criteria of trust
- Cultivating compassion and equanimity
- Cultivating compassion and letting go of anger
- Cultivating compassion for ourselves and others
- Cultivating contentment
- Cultivating emotional balance
- Cultivating emotional balance
- Cultivating happiness and contentment
- Cultivating love
- Cultivating love and compassion
- Cultivating love and kindness
- Cultivating loving-kindness
- Cultivation of Compassion
- Curing our self-centeredness
- Dealing with anger using mind training
- Dealing with anxiety
- Dealing with criticism
- Dealing with depression
- Dealing with disappointment
- Dealing with situations when things fall apart
- Defining love and happiness
- Defusing our hot buttons
- Dependent arising and compassion, continued
- Developing compassion
- Developing compassion
- Developing equanimity
- Developing inner peace through focus
- Developing inner peace through generosity and ethical living
- Developing inner peace through mindfulness
- Developing inner peace through transforming perspectives
- Disappointment and delight—the eight worldly concerns
- Disarming the mind
- Disconnect to connect
- Discontent and contentment
- Discovering anger within
- Discussion on compassion with Q&A
- Disturbing emotions and the mind
- Don’t trust me to fly a plane!
- Doubting one’s capabilities
- Embracing common humanity
- Empathic distress
- Empathy and humor
- Equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Equanimity in daily life
- Establishing compassionate habits
- Ethical conduct and motivation
- Examining anger and its antidotes
- Examining our expectations of others
- Exchanging self and others and taking and giving
- Fear about the world
- Fear about the world
- Fear of being disliked
- Fear of compassion
- Fear of dying
- Fear of losing our identity
- Fear of losing things
- Fear of making decisions
- Fear of separation from loved ones
- Fear of the future
- Fear regarding health
- Fear regarding the economy
- Finding the best in other people
- Finding true happiness
- Forebearance
- Forgiving after a betrayal
- Forgiving ourselves and others
- Friendliness
- Friends who give bad advice
- Genuine aspiration and resistance
- Genuine compassion
- Genuine self-confidence
- Getting a handle on anger
- Getting rid of my buttons
- Giving positive feedback and praise
- Giving up the blame game
- Guided meditation on compassion
- Happiness within ourselves
- Healing broken trust
- Healing from the heart
- Healing prejudice
- Healing the mind
- Healing with love and compassion
- Helping angry people
- Helping each other feel safe
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama and compassion
- How a Tibetan Buddhist nun works with her anger
- How can we deal with anger?
- How compassion changes us
- How do we make ourselves trustworthy?
- How our emotions impact our mind
- How to achieve success, happiness and love
- How to be happy without attachment
- How to have a happy mind
- How to love the people you dislike
- Identifying anxiety
- Identifying our feelings
- Imagery and method acting: Cultivating our compassionate selves
- Inner peace
- Inner peace, world peace
- Intolerance: Look Into Your Own Mind
- Introduction to the taking and giving meditation
- It’s not about the money: “Sutta on the Dung Beetle”
- Joy and courage
- Kindness and forgiveness
- Kindness of mothers (all beings)
- Kuan Yin and compassion
- Latka: Feeling left out
- Leading an open-hearted life
- Learning to forgive
- Learning, Living, and Teaching Bodhicitta
- Liberation from the eight dangers: Verses 1-3
- Liberation from the eight dangers: Verses 4-8
- Live each day with loving-kindness
- Living a happy life: Covid or not
- Living an open-hearted life
- Living with optimism
- Living without fear
- Love and compassion
- Love does no harm
- Love people, not pleasure
- Loving kindness and compassion in daily life
- Loving oneself and others
- Make every day a miracle
- Making decisions for long term benefit
- Making friends with ourselves
- Making life meaningful
- Making our minds receptive to the Dharma
- Making requests and self-reliance
- Managing anger in a relationship
- Meditating on equanimity
- Meditating on taking and giving
- Meditation on transforming anger into compassion
- Mindful awareness
- Misconceptions about compassion
- More remedies for anger
- Moving toward compassion
- My favorite pastime is complaining
- My favorite pastime: complaining
- No need to fake it: Developing true self-confidence
- Obstacles and antidotes
- Obstacles to compassion
- On marital separation
- Optimism and renunciation
- Our capacity for kindness
- Overcoming anger and frustration
- Overcoming anxiety
- Overcoming jealousy
- Overcoming the obstacles to developing compassion
- Overcoming unwholesome states
- Overwhelmed?
- Purifying our wrong actions
- Push and pull of emotional life
- Questions and answers on anger
- Re-writing the 12 steps, 1-7
- Re-writing the 12 steps, 8-12
- Reaching out with compassion
- Recognizing negative emotions
- Removing partiality
- Resistance to practice
- Resources for fearful scenarios
- Retreating from anger
- Rules of the universe and the benefits of cherishing others
- Ruminating
- Seeing kindness everywhere
- Seeing the kindness of all beings
- Self-centeredness and being spiritually stuck
- Self-compassion
- Self-compassion
- Setting our motivation
- Simplifying our lives
- Slow things down and give them some space
- Small acts of compassion can have big results
- Spreading compassion
- Stories of forgiveness
- Strategies for managing anger
- Strength, joy, and compassion
- Strengthening and maintaining mental well-being—the Buddhist approach
- The 12 steps of Co-Dependents Anonymous
- The Buddhist approach to happiness
- The Buddhist view of anger
- The creator of happiness and suffering
- The disadvantages of holding grudges
- The disadvantages of self-centeredness
- The downside of anger
- The eight pillars of joy
- The formula for happiness
- The four immeasurables
- The four opponent actions for healing broken trust
- The four opponent powers
- The happiness of an open-hearted life
- The heart of forgiveness
- The importance of consistency
- The importance of empathic listening
- The importance of regular practice
- The judgmental mind
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of sentient beings
- The link between anger and arrogance
- The lion of pride
- The love of money
- The love that empowers your life
- The need for correct discernment
- The path to self-acceptance
- The power of compassion in a chaotic world
- The power of compassion, part 1
- The power of compassion, part 2
- The power of compassion, part 3
- The power of compassion, part 4
- The power of forgiveness
- The power of optimism
- The power of optimism and types of emotion
- The purpose of a spiritual mentor
- The seven-point instruction of cause and effect
- The source of happiness and problems
- The true meaning of forgiveness
- The way of compassion
- The wisdom of fear
- Three types of emotion and their influence
- To bear the unbearable
- Transforming anger
- Transforming anger into compassion
- Transforming anxiety and depression
- Transforming anxiety and depression in a rapidly changing world
- Transforming depression and anxiety
- Transforming the mind with compassion
- Twelve ways to apply compassion in society
- Understanding disturbing emotions
- Using the 12-step program if you’re a Buddhist
- Visualization and purification
- What it means to be happy—a talk with young students
- What mental factors protect trust?
- When compassion arises
- Who’s responsible for my suffering?
- Why talk about fear?
- Why we need compassion
- Wisdom and compassion
- Wisdom, love, and hatred
- Working with anger
- Working with anger
- Working with anger
- Working with anger
- Working with anger in daily life
- Working with anger, part 1
- Working with anger, part 2
- Working with Conflict and Making Requests
- Working with doubt
- Working with emotions
- Working with emotions: Anger
- Working with emotions: General antidotes to afflictions
- Working with fear and anxiety
- Working with jealousy
- Working with judgement and partiality
- Working with unfulfilled expectations
- Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions
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