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Venerable Thubten Chodron Making requests and self-reliance
We request the Buddha's for inspiration along the path, but we must do the work…
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Making our minds receptive to the Dharma
Prayer in Buddhism is a collaborative effort. What we are doing when asking the Buddhas…
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The purpose of a spiritual mentor
How we may adapt a 12-step recovery program with Buddhist views on self-reliance for our…
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Correct assumer
Teachings on the type of consciousness that concludes without a direct experience or infererence.
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Examining conceptual mind and needs
Working with our mind to distinguish the conceptual thoughts versus the real feelings or needs…
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Subsequent cognizers
Summary of types of consciousness after the first moment and how these arise.
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Meditation on bones
Meditating on bones to deepen our understanding of impermanence and our renunciation of cyclic existence.
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Inferential cognizers and obscured phenomena
How to apply syllogisms to examine the day-to-day assumptions our conceptual mind makes.
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Facsimile direct perceiver and inferential cognizers
Summary of different types of conceptual consciousness and introduction to inferential cognizer.
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Yogic direct perceiver
Importance of study, logic, along with meditation, to see how things exist and how they…
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Apperceptive direct perceiver
Description of that mind which is non-dual with the consciousness that sees the object.
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Tracy Simmons - Jan 10, 2013
Tracy Simmons A realistic and beneficial viewpoint
The story behind "Don't Believe Everything You Think" and how to incorporate the 37 practices…
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