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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Freedom through imagination

How to imagine the light and nectar flowing from Tara as purifying negative karma, sickness…

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Barbed wire against blue sky with one plant growing
On Overcoming Anger

Practicing in prison

Prison provides a unique place to practice the wish to benefit all sentient beings.

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Bronze statue of White Tara.
Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions

Working with doubt

Recognizing and managing a doubtful mind.

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Excitement and laxity; not applying and over-applyin...

The importance of introspective awareness in seeing laxity and excitement in the mind. What to…

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A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness

Identifying mental factors within our own minds

Beginning of the commentary on the mindfulness of phenomena, listing the phenomena to be abandoned…

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Forgetting the object of meditation

The importance of knowing and remembering what topic we are meditating on at the beginning…

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Doubt

How doubt in the teachings, the path, or our ability to practice can distract and…

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Ethics in the Modern World

Compassion and ethics in the public discourse

Leading with compassion and ethical conduct can influence our society in a powerful way.

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