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Venerable Thubten Chodron Romance and family life
Buddhist advice for parents and for youth on romantic love and relationships.
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 104-106
A look at dependent arising and emptiness, how things appear to exist in one way,…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 101-104
Eliminating our own self-centeredness and our own self grasping ignorance and thereby developing the compassion…
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Incarcerated people 
Purification meditation
How one can calm the mind by meditating on the breath, visualizing the Buddha, and…
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Basis, path, and result: Discussion
Question and answer session on the aspects of the basis, the path, and the result…
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Basis, path, and result
The aspects of the basis as the two truths, the path as the method and…
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Renunciation and simplicity
For monastics of all traditions, renouncing worldly materialism and self-centeredness inspires the cultivation of genuine…
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Squeezing George Washington so tight he cries
A person in prison discusses his mistaken notion that renunciation means not caring.
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verse 104-Conclusion
How things exist dependent on causes and conditions, they appear one way and exist in…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 99-104
How we can grow in our Dharma practice through these courageous mind-training practices. Thinking about…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 93-98
Taking on suffering of others without fear and having no doubt that self-cherishing is the…
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