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Venerable Thubten Chodron How to practice in retreat
General instructions on what to do during and between meditation sessions.
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Three types of dukkha
The three types of dukkha and its causes, how to generate renunciation, and methods for…
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Motivation for practicing Dharma
Fitting the four establishments of mindfulness practices into the framework of the lamrim as well…
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Facsimile direct perceiver and inferential cognizers
Summary of different types of conceptual consciousness and introduction to inferential cognizer.
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Setting up a meditation session
Opening the retreat with instruction on how to set up a session and how to…
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Taking down offerings
The third of three talks about how to set up an altar at home covers…
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Cultivating social harmony
On our responsibility to cultivate positive qualities within ourselves in order to experience them in…
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Chinese bhikshunis visit Sravasti Abbey
A question-and-answer session with Chinese bhikshunis who visited the Abbey to help conduct the ordination…
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Incarcerated people Turning my life around
A person in prison shares his experience of living the five precepts.
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Water bowl offering
The second of three talks about how to set up an altar at home covers…
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Yogic direct perceiver
Importance of study, logic, along with meditation, to see how things exist and how they…
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How to set up an altar
The first of three talks about how to set up an altar at home explains…
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