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Thinking about emptiness
The wisdom realizing emptiness has the ability to cut the root of suffering once and…
View PostWorking on our attachments
We don't need to keep trying new things in order to see how attachment works.…
View PostMaking decisions
Are chocolate brownies inherently delicious? An analysis of the grasping nature of our minds.
View PostQuestioning our perceptions
An explanation of how emptiness and dependent arising do not contradict each other.
View PostCultivating compassion
Creating conditions beneficial to practice, cultivating compassion without bias, and intellectual versus emotional compassion.
View PostAn interview with a newly ordained monastic
Venerable Thubten Chonyi talks candidly to Awaken magazine of her decision to follow the monastic…
View PostNegating inherent existence
The lack of inherent existence does not mean the same as non-existence. While things do…
View PostIndependent and dependent existence
The contrast between independent and dependent existence, and an explanation of the difference between permanent…
View PostDharma protector practices
Words of advice regarding Dharma protector practice, reminding us that the spirit of Buddhism is…
View PostDeity practice
An explanation of the difference between self-generation and front-generation, as well as an answer to…
View PostEmptiness and non-duality
The perception of emptiness is non-dual, without the experience of subject and object.
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