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Incarcerated people Riding the roller coaster
Daily practice helps us recognize the problems that our mind creates for us.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Antidotes to afflictions
Definitions, disadvantages and antidotes for key afflictions: attachment, anger, jealousy, and arrogance.
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Reverend Kalen McAllister Scholarship from death row prisoners
A story of incarcerated people on death row who provide scholarships to family members of…
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Report on “Nuns in the West II”
"The power of women of different faiths meeting together and sharing in harmony cannot be…
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After release: A woman’s perspective
A woman talks about her experiences on leaving prison after 10 years. She also discusses…
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Meditation 101
On the two main kinds of meditation and how to prepare for a meditation session.
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Developing a Dharma mind
The importance of practicing ourselves before we can help others, guarding against hypocrisy and constantly…
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Working on the mind
Different practices to work with the eight worldly concerns and cultivating the six far-reaching attitudes…
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Stages of the path to enlightenment
Lamrim topics and thought transformation practices within the 37 practices of bodhisattvas.
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Precious human life
Having a precious human life, how the three poisonous attitudes affect us, importance of spiritual…
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Wisdom fear of samsara
A teaching on the reality of cyclic existence and possibility for liberation. Reflecting on our…
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Crossing to the other shore
An incarcerated person expresses the internal struggle he faces while doing retreat in prison.
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