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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2018

Restlessness, regret, and doubt

How to identify and apply antidotes to the hindrances of restlessness, regret, and deluded doubt.

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2018

Malice and lethargy

How to identify and apply antidotes to the hindrances of malice and lethargy.

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2018

Mindfulness and sensual desire

The role of mindfulness in concentration meditation, and how to work with the hindrance of…

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2018

Qualities of concentration

The place of concentration meditation in Buddhism, and its unique qualities.

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Life at Sravasti Abbey

Benefiting the world through the Dharma

A talk with Tibetan nuns about Sravasti Abbey and how monastic life is being involved…

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Supporting the Dharma practitioner

There is merit in supporting the Dharma practitioner, but we also need to practice the…

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Practice, study, and offer service

Each of us needs to find the right combination of study, practice, and service that…

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Venerable and student smiling in front of Buddha statues.
Books

The Foundation of Buddhist Practice: The source of h...

Because source of happiness and suffering is our own mind, the way to find happiness…

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Commitments and monotony

We need to keep up our practice because the benefit comes from its cumulative effect.

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Happiness through renunciation

What do we renounce? We renounce the afflictive mental states that cause negative karma.

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