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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Emptiness and worldly appearances

Emptiness is not simply another quality of a sense object, like color or shape, but…

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Older female hands clasping each other.
On Love, Compassion, and Bodhicitta

Wisdom from Great Aunt Ga-ga

A person in prison remembers his great-aunt and the wealth of advice she gave. He…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Emptiness as the nature of phenomena

When anything exists, from the moment it exists, it is empty of inherent existence.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Emptiness feels so solid

Emptiness, sometimes mistakenly thought of something that exists solidly, is actually a non-affirming negation, a…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Buddha nature and omniscient mind

What buddha nature means; It doesn't mean that we're already buddhas. A continuing explanation of…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

The pitfalls of perfectionism

Developing conviction in the Dharma teachings and how to approach the Dharma in a constructive…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Tara’s wisdom

Further explanations of doing the Tara sadhana and what different sections mean. The various kinds…

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Seven-point Mind Training

The precepts of mind training

How we tend to view others as objects or commodities for our own happiness rather…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

How to see Tara

It is incorrect to project human qualities on Tara or see her as a theistic…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Seasons change

The seasons change, a vivid example of impermanence. Calling a day the first day of…

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