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Venerable Thubten Chodron Our Buddha potential
The potential to become a fully enlightened Buddha resides in every one of us.
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The measure of a trained mind
Honestly looking at our minds to see how it reacts to hardships and the difference…
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Getting what we don’t want
Looking at the first two of the eight sufferings of human beings and using them…
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The first noble truth and dukkha
The three types of dukkha, and how having an awareness of all three is important…
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Incarcerated people transform adversity into the path
Grant funding enables Sravasti Abbey to teach thought-training to incarcerated people in the United States.
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Peter Aronson Meaningful life, remembering death
A vivid meditation on death and how important it is to make life meaningful while…
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Tom Woodbury - Nov 7, 2009
Meditating on our precious human life
A guided meditation on how to rejoice in our precious human life instead of taking…
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Power of prayer and familiarity
The aspirations and meditations that are beneficial at the time of death, and the signs…
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The Buddha’s first teaching
How the four noble truths are the framework in which everything happens.
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Revelatory and non-revelatory forms
Actions that reveal and do not reveal the intention of the person doing the action.
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