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Travels

Teachings in Mexico

Venerable Thubten Chodron shares her experiences teaching in Mexico and reflects on how we all…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Review: The five powers at death

Review of practicing the five powers at the time of death and the benefits of…

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Prison Dharma

Prison outreach in Mexico

Buddhist principles that are transforming prison outreach are taught to leaders in a Mexican correctional…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Review: The five powers during life

Review of how to train in the five powers during daily life, decreasing afflictions and…

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Seven-point Mind Training

The commitments of mind training

What it means to be impartial about the objects of mind training and to stand…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Attachment to samadhi

The importance of seeing all realms of cyclic existence, even the upper realms, as unsatisfactory.

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

The dukkha of uncertainty

The types of dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) that are pervasive in all the realms of samsara.

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Cover of Taming the Mind.
Taming the Mind

Practical guidelines for good living

What taking refuge, formally or informally, means in Buddhism and the guidelines one uses after…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

The eight disadvantages of cyclic existence

The sufferings of separation from what we like and being under the control of afflictions…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Birth, aging, and sickness

Looking at birth, aging, and sickness, in a more realistic way, contemplating them in order…

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Our Buddha potential

The potential to become a fully enlightened Buddha resides in every one of us.

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