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Everyone wants happiness
Explanation of the nine-point equalizing self and other meditation, covering point 1, how everyone equally…
View PostMeditation on equanimity
An explanation of equanimity and its importance in developing bodhicitta including a guided meditation on…
View PostWealth is suffering
How wealth causes suffering and that it is better to strive for the wealth of…
View PostCompassion and personal distress
When overwhelmed by seeing suffering we may slip into personal distress. We can cultivate compassion…
View PostMeditation on compassion and personal distress
A guided meditation to help examine our experience of observing suffering and distinguish between responding…
View PostIsolation of body and mind
A review of verses 1-37 of Chapter 8, with discussion of the meaning and purpose…
View PostEquality of samsara and nirvana
Completing teaching from Chapter 12, explaining various meanings of "equality of samsara and nirvana" and…
View PostGiving up desire
How the cause of problems and pain is not the objects of attachment themselves, but…
View PostExcellent qualities can be cultivated limitlessly
Continuing teaching from Chapter 12, explaining how it it is possible to develop positive mental…
View PostThe disadvantages of samsara
Commentary on Shantideva's verses that point out the disadvantages of samsara, in order to develop…
View PostPrāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 5
The Prāsaṅgika tenet school's explanation of the paths and grounds, the practitioner's progression on the…
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