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Making the teachings personal
An incarcerated person reflects on refuge and the insights he has developed through practice.
View PostMeditating on three types of compassion
Importance of persisting through hearing, thinking, and meditating until we see and feel how our…
View PostHow things exist
How understanding things exist dependently provides us freedom to act without afflictions and cultivate compassion.
View Post108 Verses: Verse 9
Generating compassion by seeing things as not inherently existing and changing how we act with…
View PostEqual opportunity for nuns
Interview with Buddhist nun Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on her work to raise the self-esteem of…
View Post108 Verses: Verse 8
How understanding impermanence helps us view the true nature of self and develop a long…
View PostDiscussion on kindness of others
Discussion on how we focus on self due to many factors and importance of caring…
View PostMethods to cultivate compassion
Techniques to transform our mind from cherishing self to cherishing others for cultivating compassion.
View PostGuided meditation on cyclic existence
Developing the aspiration to be free by examining the sufferings we have because of various…
View PostMotivation for taking the eight Mahayana precepts
A description of the benefits of taking each of the eight Mahayana precepts and the…
View Post108 Verses: Verse 7
Importance of deeply looking at our sufferings and developing the motivation to overcome them for…
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