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Cultivating Compassion

Small city, big heart

Report on an international seminar and symposium on compassion and peace education in Brazil.

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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

The hindrance of desire

Explaining how to work with the restless body, concluding Chapter 6 and describing the five…

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Love and Self-esteem

What’s love got to do with it?

Exploring the true meaning of happiness and how generating love for others helps us to…

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Teachings by Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Faith and wisdom

Explanation of the causes and effects of higher rebirth and the highest good.

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By Prison Volunteers

Keeping a vast, expansive mind

How changing our perspective and "looking up" can reveal boundless possibilities.

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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

Benefits on meditating on the Buddha

Explaining the benefits of meditating on the Buddha and a variety of meditation objects for…

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Good Karma Annual Retreat

Karmic consequences of taking advantage of others

Examining situations when we are deceived by others and when our efforts are not successful.

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Good Karma Annual Retreat

Pernicious thoughts

Questions about karma plus verses outlining obstacles to our spiritual practice and peace of mind.

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Good Karma Annual Retreat

The importance of making offerings

How making offerings benefits us and how self-grasping ignorance causes afflictions to arise.

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Good Karma Annual Retreat

Karma and the mind’s namtok

Our distorted ways of thinking and how this lead to the creation of negative karma.

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