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Working with Emotions

Strengthening and maintaining mental well-being—the ...

Keeping mentally healthy from a Buddhist perspective.

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Healing Anger

Working with anger, part 2

How we can use antidotes to counteract anger.

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Healing Anger

Working with anger, part 1

An explanation of the Buddhist view of anger and how to work with it.

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The Importance of Motivation

The power of aspiration

The role and importance of aspiration in Buddhist practice.

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Mindfulness

Making mindfulness meaningful

The practice of mindfulness from a Buddhist perspective.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Three aspects of the Tathagatagarbha

Explaining the three aspects of the Buddha Essence, from the section "Three Aspects of the…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

What obscures our buddha nature

Explaining the remaining five similes, from the section, "Nine Similes for Tathāgatagarbha" and beginning the…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Review of Chapter Nine: Verses 1-4

Review on the first four verses of Chapter 9 of Shantideva's text.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Like gold in filth

Explaining the third and fourth similes, from the section “Nine Similes of Tathagatagarbha”, in Chapter…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Refuting self-cognition

Refuting the Cittamātra assertion of self-cognition.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Nine similes for Tathāgatagarbha

Explaining the first two similes from the section, "Nine Similes for Tathāgatagarbha", in Chapter 13,…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Natural nirvana and actual nirvana

Refuting the realist and Cittamātra arguments.

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