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How to meditate: An interview with Venerable Sangye ...
The main obstacles for beginners learning to meditate and how to overcome them to achieve…
View PostKnow your mind: Seven types of mind and awareness
Explanation of the remaining five of the seven types of mind and the progression from…
View PostKnow your mind: Direct perceivers and inferential co...
An explanation of the first two of the seven types of mind – direct perceivers…
View PostMeditation on coping with fear and anxiety
Guided meditation to look at what triggers fear and anxiety and how to cope with…
View PostKnow your mind: Perception and conception
The conditions that lead to a conceptual mind. The division of minds into perception and…
View PostKnow your mind: What is the mind?
Why it’s important to understand the mind, the mind and happiness and suffering, the nature…
View PostMeditation on mind as the source of happiness and pain
Guided meditation on how emotions and attitudes create our experience.
View PostAuxiliary afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining the auxiliary afflictions in the Sanskrit tradition, covering the afflictions…
View PostJoyfully engaging in virtue
Discussing ways to think, speak and act in order to joyfully create virtue in the…
View Post“Courageous Compassion”: Reading and com...
How to develop true compassion in order to benefit all sentient beings, no self-centered strings…
View PostMeditation on loving-kindness
A guided meditation to cultivate a feeling of loving-kindness for ourselves and others, to make…
View PostCombating anxiety with a meditative mind
Ways that Buddhist practices of love and compassion for others can help those suffering from…
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