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Venerable Thubten Chodron A Buddhist marriage blessing
Practices that couples getting married can do to make merit and share their deepest aspirations…
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Concentration and wisdom
Interplay between mental factors and correlation to lamrim for developing meditative stabilization and wisdom.
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Purifying for refuge practice
Why purification is necessary; practices for taking refuge in spiritual mentors, the Buddhas, the Dharma,…
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What is mindfulness and how it plays an important role in study, meditation and ethical…
View Post Attention and aspiration
The important characteristics of attention and aspiration mental factors.
View Post Discrimination, intention and contact
The subtleties of mental factors and their relation to karma.
View Post Introduction to mind and mental factors
The Buddhist view of our thoughts and consciousness.
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A second pilgrimage in China
Two weeks of travel in China followed by two weeks of retreat and teachings with…
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama The value of a disciplined way of life
Buddha's monastic precepts and their similarities to the Christian practice.
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Right effort, view, and thought
Concluding the teachings on the the eightfold noble path by looking at right effort, right…
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