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Venerable Thubten Chodron Taking and holding the precepts
Vows aren't designed to make us miserable, but to make our minds peaceful and happy…
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The benefits of precepts
What is important in our lives? Happiness is getting our lives together to pacify our…
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Introducing Exploring Monastic Life 2008
Opening the 2008 Exploring Monastic Life program with an introduction and advice on how to…
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Incarcerated people Just breathe
Reflections on practice in a difficult environment. Managing how the anger of others affects us.
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Dependent arising and emptiness
Investigating ultimate and conventional truth through the teachings on dependent arising and emptiness.
View Post Refuting inherently existent phenomena
Using the "diamond slivers" reasoning to refute the inherent production of phenomena.
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Verse 14-3: Three higher trainings
Gradual progression of subduing of the afflictions and the counteracting of the karma through the…
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Sex and our culture
A talk directed towards youth on how we should perceive sex and the confusion between…
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Verse 14-2: What samsara is
The samsara we're in is this very body and mind, not the external world.
View Post Refuting the inherent self
Using reasoning to refute the inherent existence of the self and all phenomena.
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Verse 14-1: The prison of cyclic existence
Determination to be free, aspiration for enlightenment to benefit sentient beings and liberate them, wisdom…
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