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Verse 32-5: Who is sick?
Working with illness and pain by considering who is the "I" who is experiencing the…
View PostCultivating conventional bodhicitta
Introduction to the section of the text that explains how to cultivate the conventional awakening…
View PostWisdom, renunciation, and attachment
A discussion covering the topics of great and profound wisdom, emptiness and attachment, how vipassana…
View PostVerse 32-4: Aging gracefully
How attachment to the body—it's appearance and physical abilities— makes it so difficult to accept…
View PostVerse 32-3: Renouncing suffering
The importance of generating renunciation and really getting a feel for wanting to be free…
View PostVerse 32-2: Working with sickness
How to work with the mind when we are sick and transform illness into the…
View PostVerse 32-1: Being free from illness
How the body, by its very nature, gets sick. The only way to avoid illness…
View PostVerse 31: Seeing someone suffering
How compassion differs from personal distress and how to cultivate compassion without falling to apathy.…
View PostVerse 30-2: The bliss of a buddha
The meaning of the term "the bliss of the Buddha." Considering the removal of the…
View PostVerse 30-1: Happiness
Cultivating dissatisfaction with samsara and striving to attain the happiness of the buddhas. How this…
View PostThe disadvantages of cyclic existence: Part 2
In-depth teaching on the third through the sixth disadvantage of cyclic existence. This teaching completes…
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