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Building Trust

Criteria of trust

Examining the criteria we use for trusting others. We should base trust on how people…

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Mind and Awareness

Object possessors and seven types of cognizers

Classification of possessors of objects and types of mind comprehending objects. How this is important…

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Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2012

Bodhicitta as the result

After practicing the six causes of bodhicitta, the result - bodhicitta - can arise.

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Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2012

Beginning love with ourselves

Developing warm-heartedness for ourselves first, and then expanding it to others.

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Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2012

Cultivating satisfaction

Learning to cultivate satisfaction and see the interdependent relationship of all beings.

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Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2012

Three types of dukkha

Learning about the three types of suffering and their causes, and overcoming them.

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Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2012

Ethical behavior and happiness

How happiness is connected to ethical conduct, and the four kinds of happiness of a…

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Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2012

Investigating happiness

Looking at different types of happiness and asking what it really is and what it…

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The hands of a child and parent, touching.
On Impermanence

Three virtues entwined

A mother shares how she deals with her child's fear of death from cancer.

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Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2012

Dismantling preconceptions

Getting rid of preconceptions and developing the confidence of a bodhisattva.

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Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2012

Gratitude towards parents

Parents give incredible kindness, and even with their own cultural conditioning they do such an…

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