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Incarcerated people A test of my bodhisattva vows
Keeping oneself free of violence by remembering the vows and showing compassion.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The advantages of cherishing others
How to generate bodhicitta by changing in one's mind who is important and cherished: the…
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The liberation of self-forgiveness
An incarcerated person shares his experience of transforming self-hatred to open up his heart for…
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Sravasti Abbey Monastics Founding donor’s day
The birth of Sravasti Abbey, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the U.S.
View Post The disadvantages of self-centeredness
Working with the self-centered mind to increase happiness, one realizes the mind is dependent on…
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Buddha nature and precious human life
Seeing our potential and the conducive circumstances we have to actualize it.
View Post Equalizing and exchanging self and others
A discussion of Shantideva's nine-point meditation on equalizing self and others as a method of…
View Post The seven-point cause-and-effect practice
Practices that develop the bodhicitta aspiration to attain buddhahood in order to benefit all sentient…
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Opening up to love
Being stuck in a selfish lifestyle centered on "me" keeps us from realizing the interdependence…
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Inside-out practice
An incarcerated person narrates practicing inside the prison to practicing outside and compares that to…
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The four noble truths
A look at the unsatisfactory nature of cyclic existence and how to practice the noble…
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