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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 27: Guarding our spiritual precepts

The right mindset to cultivate when we voluntarily take and keep precepts in order to…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 26: Small negativities, strong poisons

Small transgressions in ethical conduct can reap large results, so be careful of even the…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 25: The negative omen of exaggeration

Exaggerating the good qualities of objects we are attached to can only bring suffering.

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Blue sky behind prison razor wire.
Prison Poetry

Think about it

If you are incarcerated, are you necessarily in a prison?

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

The kindness of our spiritual mentors

The kindness of our spiritual mentors and the three practices of offering to repay their…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Refuting truly existent time

How do the past, present, and future exist? How can things be impermanent yet have…

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Venerable Chodron standing with inmates at SCCC prison in Licking, Missouri.
Prison Dharma

Photos with incarcerated people

Venerable Chodron has visited approximately 30 prisons in the US and several in Asia and…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Overview of the stages of the path

An overview of the graduated path to awakening and how it relates to the three…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 24: Our noisy minds

How difficult it is for us to quiet down, even when we are in a…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Benefits of relying on a spiritual mentor

The eight benefits of properly relying on the spiritual mentor and the disadvantages of not…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 23: The ignorant beast

Ignorance is a mind-state that makes us no better than an animal even though we…

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