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Healing from the heart
The restorative justice movement shows it's possible to let go of anger and develop compassion…
View PostLive each day with loving-kindness
Practical tips on how to bring loving-kindness into our daily lives and interpersonal relationships.
View PostFinding your purpose in life
By looking inside, we discover what we can contribute to the world instead of getting…
View PostReview of Chapter Six: Verses 12-21
How we can use suffering and difficult situations to increase our compassion, instead of responding…
View PostPracticing the Dharma in difficult times
How to take the difficulties that are part of life into our spiritual practice to…
View PostThe purity of the mind
Reviewing Chapter 12, "The Mind and Its Potential", describing the nature of the mind and…
View PostEmptiness, its nature, its purpose, and its meaning
What it means to say things are empty but arise dependently. Also explanation of the…
View PostThe importance of realizing the ultimate nature
Why realizing emptiness is essential and the stages we go through to realize emptiness.
View PostMindfulness of the mind and phenomena
An explanation of mindfulness of the mind and phenomena. Also the reason for meditating on…
View PostMindfulness of feelings
The meaning and purpose of being mindful of the three types of feelings.
View PostMindfulness of the body
An explanation of mindfulness of the body and the meditations on the body.
View PostThe four objects of mindfulness
Introduction to the four establishments of mindfulness including the four objects and the common manner…
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