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Venerable Thubten Chodron Overcoming self-centeredness
How to identify self-centeredness, considering its disadvantages, and why we should give it up.
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Visualization and mantra recitation
The psychological effect of doing the visualization of the Medicine Buddha and reciting his mantra
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How to age happily
We will take the mental habits we cultivate now into our old age, so it…
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Venerable Thubten Ngawang Figure-ground
Just as voids in the urban fabric give rise to plazas, so too the conventions…
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Conventional and ultimate truth
While suffering is empty of inherent existence, it still exists conventionally and must be addressed.…
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Shantideva on equalizing self and others
How to meditate on equalizing self and others. A commentary on Chapter 8 of Shantideva's…
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Loosening our identities
A short meditation on the Medicine Buddha and a challenge to question the identities that…
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Equalizing self and others
The nine points of the meditation to equalize ourselves and others.
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Visualizing the Medicine Buddha
The types of meditation and how to visualize the Medicine Buddha.
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The advantages of bodhicitta
Ten ways that the practice of altruism benefits an altruistic person in his or her…
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The five types of afflictive views
By learning about the types of afflictive views we can look at our own mind…
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