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Khensur Jampa Tegchok A proper motivation
How the proper motivation is required in order to reap the full benefits of our…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The truth of dukkha
Understanding dukkha helps us to cultivate the wish to be free from it.
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Love, compassion, and wisdom
It is through the three higher trainings (discipline, meditation and wisdom) that we overcome the…
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The mind and renunciation
The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…
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The Buddha and the Dharma
How the Buddha turned he wheel of Dharma three times, the Buddha is free from…
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Introduction
Introductory teaching on the life history of Nagarjuna, cyclic existence, karma, bodhicitta, and the meaning…
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Two truths
While all things are empty and without inherent existence they still do exist in a…
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The Third Dalai Lama - Dec 1, 2006
Essence of Refined Gold
A treatise on the Lamrim Tradition of meditation, a tradition known as "Stages on the…
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The Buddhist worldview
To practice the Dharma, or even to live a happy life, it is important to…
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Cultivating emotional balance
Focusing on our own problems only makes them worse. Expanding our view to consider other…
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Gender equality/inequality in Buddhism
How our own minds create our experience of gender equality. Addressing "problematic" text, situation of…
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Adjusting to monastic life
Important elements in forming a community: how to cultivate an attitude of transparency and how…
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