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Parents and their two young children have fun in the snow at Sravasti Abbey.
Family and Friends

Redefining boundaries

Looking at boundaries with a Dharma perspective.

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Parents and their two young children have fun in the snow at Sravasti Abbey.
Family and Friends

Wanting to fix others

How looking at our problems and addressing them is more beneficial than trying to fix…

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Parents and their two young children have fun in the snow at Sravasti Abbey.
Family and Friends

Love and attachment

How to not only recognize the difference between love and attachment but how to be…

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Cover of Geshen Sonam Rinchen's book "The Three Principal Aspects of the Path".
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

General characteristics of karma

Karma is definite, expandable, doesn't get lost, and results from the causes that we have…

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Venerable Chodron meditating.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Imagining your death

The Buddhist practice of meditation on our own deaths can free our minds from the…

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Venerable Chodron meditating.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Nine-point death meditation

By reflecting carefully and thoroughly on death and impermanence, we reach the conclusion that we…

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A young Abbey retreatant, bowing to Venerable Chodron.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Rarity of a precious human rebirth

Contemplating the rarity of a precious human life complete with both the ability and the…

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Venerable Chodron sitting at her computer, smiling.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Precious human rebirth

How we can use our precious human life to advance ourselves on the Dharma path.

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Bronze statue of Kuan Yin appearing as Samantabhadra on an elephant.
Prayers and Practices

Extraordinary aspiration: The seven-limb practice

A powerful practice from the King of Prayers that can be done daily to purify…

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A bundle of 100 dollar bills.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

The eight worldly concerns

How to work with mental obstacles that keep us from practicing the Dharma.

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Venerable Samten with eyes closed while two nuns shave her head.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Renunciation

We are stuck in cyclic existence. Through the teachings, we see the problems of cyclic…

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Bronze statue of Kuan Yin appearing as Samantabhadra on an elephant.
Prayers and Practices

Introduction to the seven-limb practice

Seven ways to purify the mind and to accumulate merit, the purpose and ways of…

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