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Monastic Life

Monastic Mind Motivation commentary

The importance of reconfiguring our usual mindset to align with our precepts and values.

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

What helps at the time of death

The last three points of the nine-point death meditation and how to prepare for death.

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Meditation

Meditation in the Tibetan tradition

The types and purposes of meditation as taught in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

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Thought Training

Living a life that matters

How to overcome the eight worldly concerns and generate bodhicitta.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Equality of samsara and nirvana

Describing the meaning of "one taste in emptiness", beginning the section, "The Equality of Samsara…

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Sunset behind an open meadow.
On Self-Worth

I am a Buddhist

D. S. reflects on how his studies in Buddhism have influenced his life as an…

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Volume 7 Searching for the Self

The object of negation

Correctly identifying the object of negation is essential for the meditation on emptiness to be…

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