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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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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Verses 184-187

An explanation of how emptiness does not mean non-existence, and the problems with being attached…

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

Karma, formative action, and volitional factors

Deciphers the difference between Dharma terms related to karma and illuminates how this understanding is…

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2014

The meaning of karma

Clarifies what the often misused word "karma" means in a Buddhist context.

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Karma and Your Life

Contemplating causality

It is helpful to contemplate whether your beliefs and views about who you are and…

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