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Small city, big heart
Report on an international seminar and symposium on compassion and peace education in Brazil.
View PostThe hindrance of desire
Explaining how to work with the restless body, concluding Chapter 6 and describing the five…
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What’s love got to do with it?
Exploring the true meaning of happiness and how generating love for others helps us to…
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Faith and wisdom
Explanation of the causes and effects of higher rebirth and the highest good.
View PostKeeping a vast, expansive mind
How changing our perspective and "looking up" can reveal boundless possibilities.
View PostBenefits on meditating on the Buddha
Explaining the benefits of meditating on the Buddha and a variety of meditation objects for…
View PostKarmic consequences of taking advantage of others
Examining situations when we are deceived by others and when our efforts are not successful.
View PostPernicious thoughts
Questions about karma plus verses outlining obstacles to our spiritual practice and peace of mind.
View PostThe importance of making offerings
How making offerings benefits us and how self-grasping ignorance causes afflictions to arise.
View PostKarma and the mind’s namtok
Our distorted ways of thinking and how this lead to the creation of negative karma.
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