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Venerable Thubten Chodron 37 Practices: Verses 4-6
Verses describing the miseries of samsara, the importance of thinking about beginningless lives, giving up…
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Lama Tsongkhapa’s kindness
How Je Rinpoche brought immense benefit through his teachings on emptiness and lamrim, and how…
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Ignorance, anger, purification
Retreat discussion on topics such as the four distortions, how anger destroys merit, using pain…
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37 Practices: Verses 1-3
Making the lamrim personal, changing environments to change negative habits, and relaxing as we see…
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Panic fear, wisdom fear, and the adrenaline rush
Discussion with retreatants on the proper way to use the death meditation, the I that…
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Peeling away the view of permanence
Even though we die and are reborn so often, we think the experiences of this…
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Preciousness of the opportunity for retreat
The incredible rarity of meeting the Mahayana teachings and being able to do retreat.
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Profound view
How wisdom and compassion support each other. Ten ways to practice mindfulness of emptiness. When…
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The self as a merely labeled phenomenon
Why understanding dependent arising precedes the realization of emptiness. The meaning of being merely labeled.…
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Ways in which we apprehend phenomena
What does it mean when we say that things, including the self, exist in dependence…
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Progressing from wrong conceptions to correct view
How to use your meditation to move through the various stages of realizing emptiness, the…
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Negating inherent existence
The three levels of selflessness. Conventional and ultimate truths. The three levels of dependent arising.
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