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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 3: Abandoning belief in cleanliness

Recognizing the difficulties created by sensual desire and seeing the body for what it is…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapters 2-3: Verses 45-52

How what is seen as pleasurable in samsara is actually a small discomfort replacing a…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Looking at death and dealing with loss

How remembering death can make life meaningful, causing us to think about the choices we…

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Essential Spiritual Advice

Clear wishes for our final moments

Engaging in mind training throughout our lives in order to die without terror and regret.

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Essential Spiritual Advice

Dying without fear and regret

Preparing our family for our death, living wills and notifying them of spiritual commitments and…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 2: Abandoning belief in pleasure

The unsatisfactory nature of the pleasures of cyclic existence and how they cannot bring real,…

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Forgiveness

Challenges to forgiveness

We can generate forgiveness and compassion for those who harm ourselves or others. Forgiveness does…

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Large group of monastics from various traditions sitting together.
Western Buddhist Monastic Gatherings

How to grow a monastic

A personal account of the 19th Annual Western Buddhist Monastic Gathering.

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Emptiness does not mean nothingness

A teaching on the difference between conventional and ultimate analysis of objects in order to…

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A group of Tibetan nuns.
Tibetan Tradition

Ordination of buddhist nuns

Progress on the revival of Mūlasarvāstivāda bhikṣuṇī ordination.

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