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Venerable Thubten Chodron Eight verses of mind training: Verse 1
Our mind creates our experience of happiness or suffering based on how we interpret the…
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Venerable Thubten Samten Review of Chapter 7: Verses 156-175
A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…
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Kenneth Mondal 
Review of Chapter 7: Verses 151-155
A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…
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Chapters 8-9: Verses 200-201
An explanation of the three kinds of compassion, dependent arising, making ourselves suitable vessels, and…
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Living with loss
How to work with the emotions when we lose the things we are attached to.…
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Chapter 8: Verses 197-200
The relationship between realizing emptiness and generating bodhicitta, and why the end of afflictions is…
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Ethics and right livelihood
A response to a student's question on what to do if one's loved ones are…
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The mark of a successful life
Shows the different criteria that influence one's choice of profession and activities.
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Chapter 8: Self and emptiness
A discussion session that touches on the self-centered thought, how self-grasping ignorance produced afflictions, and…
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Tobacco, firearms and food
Shares a New York Times opinion piece by Mark Bittman, and encourages us to reflect…
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How renunciation brings happiness
Shares a message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche to the International Mahayana Institute sangha, and speaks…
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