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Venerable Thubten Chodron Cultivating compassion in a violent world
Applying the ancient wisdom of a Buddhist philosophical text to bring compassion to situations of…
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The social impact of gun violence
Keeping a calm and compassionate mind in the wake of George Zimmerman's acquittal.
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Chapter 4: Verses 90–100
What does it take to be an ethical leader? Is it appropriate for a country's…
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Chapter 4: Verses 85–89
Teachings on how cultivating the correct view of self leads to compassion and explanation of…
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Chapters 3-4: Verses 75-85
Geshe Thabkhe begins teaching on Chapter 4, speaking about the antidote to overcome manifest conceptions…
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Chapter 3: Verses 67–74
Geshe Thabkhe talks about how seeing the impurity of both body and mind will help…
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Kenneth Mondal Releasing the need to be the best
The understanding of emptiness is a hefty weapon in the battle with the ego.
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Chapter 3: Verses 51-66
Geshe Thabkhe teaches on Chapter 3, on abandoning the view of the cleanliness of the…
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Chapter 2: Summary and discussion
Geshe Thabkhe outlines the discussion between proponents of truly existent pleasure and suffering and those…
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Chapter 2: Verses 39-50
Geshe Thabkhe continues teaching on the inappropriateness of seeing what is suffering as pleasure, and…
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Chapter 2: Verses 36-38
Geshe Thabkhe gives teachings on abandoning the belief in pleasure and refutes that anything that…
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Chapter 2: Verses 26 – 35
Geshe Thabkhe responds to questions and continues teaching on Chapter 2, devoted to abandoning erroneous…
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