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Venerable Thubten Chodron Making decisions
Are chocolate brownies inherently delicious? An analysis of the grasping nature of our minds.
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Questioning our perceptions
An explanation of how emptiness and dependent arising do not contradict each other.
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Cultivating compassion
Creating conditions beneficial to practice, cultivating compassion without bias, and intellectual versus emotional compassion.
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Venerable Thubten Chonyi 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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Negating inherent existence
The lack of inherent existence does not mean the same as non-existence. While things do…
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Independent and dependent existence
The contrast between independent and dependent existence, and an explanation of the difference between permanent…
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Dharma protector practices
Words of advice regarding Dharma protector practice, reminding us that the spirit of Buddhism is…
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Deity practice
An explanation of the difference between self-generation and front-generation, as well as an answer to…
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Emptiness and non-duality
The perception of emptiness is non-dual, without the experience of subject and object.
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Emptiness and worldly appearances
Emptiness is not simply another quality of a sense object, like color or shape, but…
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Incarcerated people 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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