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Sravasti Abbey Monastics Our capacity for kindness
Cultivating compassion for specific groups of people and how this inner work transforms our everyday…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron 37 Practices: Verses 9-10
How to expand our motivation beyond attaining a good rebirth to liberation and awakening to…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Becoming our own best friend
How to cultivate a healthy long-term friendship with ourselves. Learning to recognize the self-centered thought…
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37 Practices: Verses 4-8
Looking at "bad" friends who take us away from the Dharma and cherishing the spiritual…
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Venerable Thubten Chonyi Developing compassion
Definition of compassion and the conditions we already have in place to cultivate it.
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37 Practices: Verses 1-3
When we realize the value of a precious human life we will feel like a…
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Venerable Thubten Damcho Meditation and review on seeing the kindness of all ...
Kindness is all around us and we can condition ourselves to see it in every…
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Venerable Thubten Tarpa Abandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 1
Review of the first five of the ten non-virtuous pathways: killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying,…
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Venerable Thubten Samten Connecting with incarcerated women in Indonesia
Reflections on a visit together with Venerable Thubten Chodron to a women's prison in Indonesia.
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Transforming anger into compassion
Anger isn't subdued by rearranging the world and the beings in it, but through internal…
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The Buddhist approach to happiness
Living life with the view that my happiness is most important actually leads to unhappiness.…
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