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Venerable Thubten Chodron Practicing the Dharma with bodhicitta
How to make bodhicitta the motivation for meditation and our other Dharma practices.
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“The Compassionate Kitchen”
How eating and activities related to it—preparing food, offering and consuming it, and cleaning up—can…
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Practicing with those who harm us
Venerable Chodron's "Sam" story, how those who harm us are rare and precious treasures.
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Cultivating love and compassion
Continuing to read from “Working with Afflictions” in Chapter 3 and covers “Cultivating Love and…
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Why does this get to me?
Reflecting on why we are triggered when someone is overwhelmed by negative energy or intense…
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A graded range of consciousnesses
Covering the first two consciousnesses: wrong consciousness and uncertain consciousness learning toward believing something that…
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Confronting and averting afflictions
How we should be fearful of our afflictions and polluted karma, not other people.
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Attachment endangers us
How when afflictions arise, we often don’t discern them as harmful.
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Becoming friends with ourselves
Becoming our own friend means treating ourselves with kindness, respect and compassion; celebrating our successes…
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Virtuous and variable mental factors & the affli...
Finishing teaching the virtuous mental factors, and then covering the root afflictions, auxiliary afflictions, and…
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Object ascertaining and virtuous mental factors
The 51 mental factors, covering the five object-ascertaining and 11 virtuous mental factors.
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The body and mind
The various aspects that compose the body and mind: the twelve sources and eighteen constituents,…
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