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Venerable Thubten Chodron Buddhist precepts regarding food
The Buddhist perspective on fasting and how practitioners keep Buddhist precepts related to food.
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Contemplating the eight types of dukkha, part 2
Explanation of meditating on the eight types of dukkha is continued with the last four.…
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Working with attachment to food
Ways to work with attachment to food with a balanced mind.
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Chapter 3: Verses 268-271
Thought transformation practices that create the causes for the collection of wisdom. The four ascetic…
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Kindness vitamins: An interview
Venerable Thubten Chodron shares on how Buddhist practice has changed her life on the Third…
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Dedicating for the benefit of all
The completion of the commentary on the verses after lunch, pointing out all the beings…
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Challenging self view
The various reasonings refuting that the person exists inherently in or separate from the aggregates.
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Refuting inherent existence
Analyzing whether the person is one with the aggregates, and how we have difficulty seeing…
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Emptiness and compassion
Analyzing whether the person is one or different from the aggregates.
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Karma and emptiness
An overview of why we would want to learn about emptiness and teaches on the…
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Books available in translation
A list of Venerable Chodron's books available in translation.
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