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Venerable Thubten Chodron Verse 73: Buddhas-to-be
Cultivating a pure view of others and ourselves as future buddhas can be more realistic…
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Chapter 14: Refuting extreme conceptions
Examining how phenomena and persons exist in relation to their attributes, and vice versa.
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Tracy Simmons Interview on “Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Trad...
Tracy Simmons speaks to Venerable Thubten Chodron about her new book and why it would…
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We are all Michael Brown and Darren Wilson
Using the Dharma to process outrage at the Grand Jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri to…
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Lama Tsongkhapa 
Verse 72: The sweetest conversation
How to be mindful of our speech, our motivations when interacting with others, and cultivating…
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Verse 71: Living an exemplary life
Developing authentic care and concern for others. The progression from faking it to being it…
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Verse 70: The most respected of all beings
How we should respect those who are wise in the Dharma, and how our own…
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The five afflictive views
The five wrong views that get in the way of our understanding conventional and ultimate…
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Verse 69: The best speaker of all
How hearing, thinking and meditating are crucial in helping us to integrate the Dharma into…
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Chapter 13: Verses 320-325
Refuting the true existence of the aggregate of discrimination that discerns sense objects. Showing how…
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Verse 68: The one with intense discipline
How to work with our rationalizing mind that tries to make excuses to follow our…
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