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Exploring Monastic Life 2023

The Buddha’s life story part 1

How the Buddha’s life story parallels our own story of spiritual yearning.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Cultivating excellent qualities

Describing the three factors that make the cultivation of excellent qualities, reviewing the sections, "Excellent…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Friends who give bad advice

How habitual disturbing emotions are like friends giving bad advice.

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Dharma in Daily Life

Transforming knowledge into action

Practices we can do in daily life to integrate the Dharma. The perfection of joyous…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

The potential for liberation

Explaining the obscurations to the mind and factors for liberation, reviewing the sections, "The Mind's…

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Q&A with Clear Mountain Monastery

Question and answer with Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho of Clear Mountain Monastery in Seattle,…

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Mind and Mental Factors

Mapping the Buddhist path onto combating the afflict...

Quotes from scriptures on the afflictions and how the Buddhist path involves removing the afflictions.

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