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An Open-Hearted Life

Guided meditation on compassion

A guided meditation to make the mind more familiar and more habituated to the feeling…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Eighty-four thousand afflictions

Completing Chapter 3, covering five hindrances and beginning Chapter 4, describing how fear, anxiety and…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Fetters and pollutants

Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, covering the fetters and pollutants as described in the Pali…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Helping each other feel safe

How to identify when we do or do not feel safe, how to cultivate a…

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Cultivating the Four Immeasurables

Meditation on metta and safety

A guided analytical meditation on loving-kindness or metta, focusing on offering safety to friends, enemies…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Clusters of afflictions

Teaching from Chapter 3, continuing with the auxiliary afflictions, describing those derived from ignorance and…

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Ven. Damcho smiling.
Antidotes to Afflictions

Meditation on coping with fear and anxiety

Guided meditation to look at what triggers fear and anxiety and how to cope with…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Auxiliary afflictions

Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining the auxiliary afflictions in the Sanskrit tradition, covering the afflictions…

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Ven. Sangye Khadro smiling while returning a white khata to a student.
Buddhist Meditation 101

Meditation on loving-kindness

A guided meditation to cultivate a feeling of loving-kindness for ourselves and others, to make…

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Ven. Sangye Khadro smiling while returning a white khata to a student.
Buddhist Meditation 101

Visualization meditation

Guided visualization meditation to bring out our positive qualities and build confidence in them.

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