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Venerable Thubten Chodron Preparing for Vajrasattva retreat
Preparatory instructions, including explanations of purification, visualization, practicing in retreat, and mantra recitation.
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How to achieve success, happiness and love
Re-defining success, happiness and love on our own terms, and understanding how the Buddhist perspective…
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Attaining and balancing wealth
Examining what money symbolizes in our life, and how overcoming self-centeredness can bring about inner…
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Our mission as educators
How can we create whole, happy individuals who are good citizens of the world?
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Why am I giving?
Offering service with a long-term view based on bodhicitta. Ways of working on doubts and…
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The seed of enlightenment
Letting go of bias, anger, resentment, and grudges, and how to cultivate equanimity, kindness, and…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 104-106
A look at dependent arising and emptiness, how things appear to exist in one way,…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 101-104
Eliminating our own self-centeredness and our own self grasping ignorance and thereby developing the compassion…
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Purification meditation
How one can calm the mind by meditating on the breath, visualizing the Buddha, and…
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Basis, path, and result: Discussion
Question and answer session on the aspects of the basis, the path, and the result…
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Basis, path, and result
The aspects of the basis as the two truths, the path as the method and…
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