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Venerable Sangye Khadro The benefits of making offerings
The benefits of making offerings plus two guided meditations for accumulating merit and purification.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Conducive conditions to develop serenity
Explaining the six essential conditions necessary for developing serenity in retreat, drawing from Indian and…
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Karma and purifying the mind
An introduction to purification practice and different activities we can do to create merit.
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Venerable Thubten Samten Review: Our enemy, self-centeredness
The disadvantages of self-centeredness and the advantages of cherishing others.
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The time of death is uncertain
Exploring the uncertainty of the time of death and the disadvantages of attachment.
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Commitments and instructions of mind training
The measure of having transformed one’s thoughts, the commitments of thought training, and instructions of…
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The five powers in life and death
Changing adverse circumstances into the path and elucidating a lifetime’s practice.
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Buddhist perspectives on death and dying
Why learning about death is important and a guided nine-point meditation on death.
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The importance of developing serenity
Covering a descriptive definition of serenity, and explaining some of the many benefits of developing…
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Letting go of unrealistic expectations
Why grasping at certain results and clinging to expectations hurts our practice.
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The four characteristics of karma
How purification is possible and an introduction to the four characteristics of karma.
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