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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Thinking about emptiness

The wisdom realizing emptiness has the ability to cut the root of suffering once and…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Working on our attachments

We don't need to keep trying new things in order to see how attachment works.…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Making decisions

Are chocolate brownies inherently delicious? An analysis of the grasping nature of our minds.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Questioning our perceptions

An explanation of how emptiness and dependent arising do not contradict each other.

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Seven-point Mind Training

Cultivating compassion

Creating conditions beneficial to practice, cultivating compassion without bias, and intellectual versus emotional compassion.

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Venerable Chonyi standing by Venerable Chodron in the Abbey mediation hall.
Becoming a Monastic

An interview with a newly ordained monastic

Venerable Thubten Chonyi talks candidly to Awaken magazine of her decision to follow the monastic…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Negating inherent existence

The lack of inherent existence does not mean the same as non-existence. While things do…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Independent and dependent existence

The contrast between independent and dependent existence, and an explanation of the difference between permanent…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Dharma protector practices

Words of advice regarding Dharma protector practice, reminding us that the spirit of Buddhism is…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Deity practice

An explanation of the difference between self-generation and front-generation, as well as an answer to…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Emptiness and non-duality

The perception of emptiness is non-dual, without the experience of subject and object.

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