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Contentment and Happiness

The Buddhist approach to happiness

Living life with the view that my happiness is most important actually leads to unhappiness.…

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Engaging in the Bodhisattva's Deeds

Working with difficult situations

The fortitude of being indifferent to harm. Verses 35-51 of Chapter 6 of Shantideva's "Engaging…

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Engaging in the Bodhisattva's Deeds

Antidotes to anger

How to use our understanding of karma to work with the angry mind. Verses 16-21…

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Engaging in the Bodhisattva's Deeds

Working with anger, developing fortitude

Defining anger and its disadvantages. Commentary on Verses 1-7 of Shantideva's "Engaging in the Bodhisattva's…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 89: The supreme possession

Integrating the Dharma into our lives is the wisest way to support our decision-making process.

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A year of living with an open heart

A study guide to encourage readers to form groups and delve into wealth of material…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 84: Good role models

How to seek out good role models in our lives, and also how to receive…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 83: Examining the self-centered mind

The importance of looking closely at the self-centered mind that destroys all our happiness.

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Exchanging self and others to develop bodhicitta

The disadvantages of self-centeredness, the benefits of cherishing others, and how these meditations lead us…

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015

Our two-year-old mind

How to work with the self-centered mind that creeps up on us in the middle…

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