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Meditation

How to meditate: An interview with Venerable Sangye ...

The main obstacles for beginners learning to meditate and how to overcome them to achieve…

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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: Seven types of mind and awareness

Explanation of the remaining five of the seven types of mind and the progression from…

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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: Direct perceivers and inferential co...

An explanation of the first two of the seven types of mind – direct perceivers…

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Antidotes to Afflictions

Meditation on coping with fear and anxiety

Guided meditation to look at what triggers fear and anxiety and how to cope with…

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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: Perception and conception

The conditions that lead to a conceptual mind. The division of minds into perception and…

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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: What is the mind?

Why it’s important to understand the mind, the mind and happiness and suffering, the nature…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Auxiliary afflictions

Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining the auxiliary afflictions in the Sanskrit tradition, covering the afflictions…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Joyfully engaging in virtue

Discussing ways to think, speak and act in order to joyfully create virtue in the…

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Volume 6 Courageous Compassion

“Courageous Compassion”: Reading and com...

How to develop true compassion in order to benefit all sentient beings, no self-centered strings…

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Buddhist Meditation 101

Meditation on loving-kindness

A guided meditation to cultivate a feeling of loving-kindness for ourselves and others, to make…

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Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions

Combating anxiety with a meditative mind

Ways that Buddhist practices of love and compassion for others can help those suffering from…

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