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A year of living with an open heart
A study guide to encourage readers to form groups and delve into wealth of material…
View PostA monastic’s mind
A talk directed at monastics but valuable for all. The value of having a monastic…
View PostPrisons of the mind
A person in prison relates how he feels more free than those outside who are…
View PostThe four immeasurables
An explanation of the prayer of the four immeasurables that is included in the White…
View PostPracticing with adversity
Practices that can be used to transform adverse circumstances into the path.
View PostKarma and compassion: Part 2 of 2
The four immeasurables (love, compassion, joy, equanimity) as antidotes to negative karma.
View PostBuddhist wisdom on violence and reconciliation
How we think suffering comes from outside and how we can rethink and transform our…
View PostSix harmonies in a sangha community
Practical guidelines for setting up and living in a Dharma community or monastery, and the…
View PostKindness towards ourselves and others
Recognizing our interdependence with others and how keeping good ethical conduct can help us to…
View PostThe mind and renunciation
The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…
View PostExplanation of the extensive offering practice
An explanation of the symbolism of the extensive offerings practice; imagining vast offerings in order…
View PostEmptiness in everyday life
Looking at everyday phenomena in terms of emptiness and dependent arising and how changing how…
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