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On Taking Illness Onto the Path

Mind training in adverse circumstances

How to apply the Dharma to turn your mind when suffering from illness.

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On Refuge and Bodhicitta

Dharma medicine for these times

Cultivating compassion in politically turbulent times.

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Stages of the Path

Four virtuous practices

Practices that prevent bodhicitta from degenerating in future lives.

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Dharma in Action

Compassion in our country

How harming others is actually harming ourselves and the importance of compassion.

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Ethics in the Modern World

Buddhist Monastic Experience

How Tibetan Buddhism can help modern people live ethically and with compassion.

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Stages of the Path

Review: Tonglen practice

Review of the tonglen (taking and giving) meditation practice.

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Dharma Poetry

The m_ssing piece

An answer to important questions about life.

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Dharma Poetry

I met a mad man

What it's like to meet a qualified spiritual mentor who changes your life.

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Dharma Poetry

The wise one’s secret

Rejoicing in the fruits of living a monastic life.

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Dharma Poetry

Another way

A monastic's prayer to renounce hatred and cultivate compassion.

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Dharma Poetry

My birthday gift

A monastic shares his insights from a life review as he turns forty.

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Two senior monastics help shave the heads of anagarikas before their ordination ceremony.
Life at Sravasti Abbey

Master the core of practice, rise to the challenge

Reflections on building a vibrant Buddhist community in the modern age.

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