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Making sensuous offerings to the Buddhas
Covering Verses 2.7-2.21 about mentally emanated offerings for Buddhas and bodhisattvas, including common and peerless…
View PostLiving the Buddha’s teachings in the 21st century
Using the Buddha's teachings to work with the mind and deal with contemporary issues including…
View PostMeditation on taking and giving
Increasing love and compassion through the meditative practice of tonglen.
View PostPowa, transference of consciousness
Teaching from the last section “Powa, Transference of Consciousness”, in Chapter 9.
View PostCultivating compassion for ourselves and others
An interview on what it means to have compassion for ourselves, opening our heart to…
View PostOffering natural substances
Beginning Chapter 2 "Purifying Negativities" with verses on making offerings to buddhas and bodhisattvas with…
View PostWhat to practice while dying
Contiuing the section "Helping Ourselves and Others at the Time of Death" and explaining which…
View PostThe merits of bodhicitta
Answering questions and teaching on Verses 1.24-1.33 on the vast merits that come from generating…
View PostMeditation on the kindness of others
A guided meditation to generate awareness of interdependence and of being the recipient of kindness.
View PostMeditation on working with anger
A guided meditation to reflect on the causes of anger and the antidotes.
View PostThe death process
Teaching from the section "The Death Process" and starting the section "Helping Ourselves and Others…
View PostMeditation on mind is the source of happiness and pain
A guided meditation to help understand how our thoughts and feelings influence our experience. Includes…
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