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Venerable Thubten Chodron Compassionate communication
How to bring compassion to our communication and how to look at situations objectively without…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Meditation on compassion for our enemies
A guided analytical meditation to cultivate compassion for those we have difficulty with or who…
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Counterforces to the afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 4, describing various counterforces to the afflictions, such as anger, attachment, jealousy,…
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Working with anger
Teaching on the disadvantages of anger, giving commentary to Verses 1-6 of Chapter 6 "Patience"
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The twelve links of dependent arising (continued)
A review of the first five links and discussion of the remaining seven links of…
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Combining wisdom and compassion
Combining Chandrakirti's sevenfold reasoning with the three types of compassion.
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Feelings and the ethical dimension of afflictions
Continuing the teachings from Chapter 4, explaining the relationship between three types of feelings and…
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Monasticism in the West
A question and answer session about Buddhist monasticism in the West.
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The twelve links of dependent arising
The four distortions of mind, answers to questions about happiness and karmic imprints, and the…
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Sustaining our monastic life
How a long-term bodhicitta motivation is essential to sustaining ordained life and the importance of…
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