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What a wonderful world!
A student reflects on how pain and suffering can be transformed into "little bits of…
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The selflessness of phenomena
How things conventionally exist due to mental designation yet lack inherent existence.
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Examples of how we cycle
Teaching from Chapter 8, describing the implicit explanation of the 12 links and covering the…
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Taking pleasure in bad actions
Completion of the commentary on the intrusive conditions and incompatible propensities that interfere with practicing…
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It’s time to change your mind
Mind transformation as the essence of Buddhism, the Four Immeasurables, and how to cultivate positive…
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Our top three priorities
By understanding impermanence and emptiness, our bodhicitta motivation becomes clear.
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Compassion + Technology
How obsession with the latest technology hinders us from thinking about its negative impacts on…
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Working with Conflict and Making Requests
Exploring ways to handle conflict situations, and how to skillfully make requests of others to…
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Meditation on working with fear and anger
A guided meditation on how to work with fear and anger to respond more effectively…
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Using logic to prove selflessness
The reasonings refuting external phenomena put forward by the proponents of the Mind-Only School.
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Explicit and implicit presentations of the 12 links
Continuing the teachings from Chapter 8, explaining the explicit and implicit descriptions of the 12…
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Intrusive conditions and incompatible propensities
Continued explanation of the eight intrusive conditions and eight incompatible propensities that interfere with practicing…
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