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The nature of all phenomena is emptiness
How phenomena actually exist and the importance of understanding emptiness.
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Refuting a permanent self
A refutation of partless atoms, permanent objects, and other wrong views.
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Refuting the Cittamatra view
Explaining how all phenomena, including mind, are dependent on other factors.
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Attachment controls us
An introduction to and overview of "A Commentary on the Awakening Mind."
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Creating our world: dependent arising
An explanation of rebirth through dependent arising, based on commentaries of the Rice Seedling Sutra.
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Four kinds of self-confidence, ten powers
Explaining the four kinds of self-confidence and the first three of the ten powers, teaching…
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Caring for our grief
Western material on grief and complementary material from a Buddhist point of view.
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Climate grief and resilience
Work to return bison to grasslands in the western US and reasons to be optimistic…
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Lojong antidotes to grief
Antidotes to grief, including reflecting on the advantages of suffering, reflecting on karma, and taking…
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Making grief meaningful
Lojong, or mind-training practices that we can use to transform our grief and our difficulties…
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A personal study of grief and some antidotes
Learning from personal grief and antidotes for working with grief from a Buddhist perspective.
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