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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

Believing what others believe about us

Responds to a question on how we are conditioned by what others believe about us…

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

Cultivating love on Valentine’s Day

Shares thoughts on how to cultivate love for all sentient beings, including our enemies, on…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Verses 190-191

Meditating on emptiness of the self, three levels of selflessness of persons, and the four-point…

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

Dropping our garbage

Shares insights from working with pain, illness, and purification during Vajrasattva retreat.

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

Ethical conduct in the workplace

Response to a retreatant from afar who wrote in with a question about having to…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Verses 188-190

A student must be prepared for the teachings on emptiness in order to understand the…

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

Stories about Lama Yeshe

Shares some of the pithy teachings by Lama Yeshe and ties them in with a…

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

Working with sexual energy

Responds to the question of how to deal with sexual energy in our spiritual practice.

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

How samsara evolves

Shares how, on the basis of our ignorance misapprehending the nature of reality, our mind…

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Books

Book launch: “Don’t Believe Everything Y...

A write-up on the book launch of "Don't Believe Everything You Think" in Singapore together…

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