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This hit home
Understanding affliction through an everyday example brings self-awareness and compassion.
View PostAntidotes for the complaining mind
Applying antidotes to our habit of complaining increases tolerance and helps others.
View PostTaking the vow of celibacy
A student shares her reasons for taking the vow of celibacy as a lay person.
View PostAttachment makes the world go ’round
How to work with feelings of attachment and desire as a monastic, not getting down…
View PostWorking with karma
How we create karma and what we can do to create the causes for happiness…
View PostPrison, life, impermanence
A person in prison describes the experience of solitary confinement and how by taking refuge…
View PostWorking with emotions
Practical advice from personal experience on the medicine to apply to an afflicted mind.
View PostThe hills we climb
An incarcerated person writes about the joyful effort of practice and what it does for…
View PostThe beauty of creating the causes
Knowing that your actions create the cause for the fruit is encouraging and a good…
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