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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: What is the mind?

Why it’s important to understand the mind, the mind and happiness and suffering, the nature…

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Wisdom

Why we need wisdom

Why we need wisdom and the types of wisdom we can cultivate.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Auxiliary afflictions

Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining the auxiliary afflictions in the Sanskrit tradition, covering the afflictions…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Joyfully engaging in virtue

Discussing ways to think, speak and act in order to joyfully create virtue in the…

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Volume 6 Courageous Compassion

“Courageous Compassion”: Reading and com...

How to develop true compassion in order to benefit all sentient beings, no self-centered strings…

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Buddhist Meditation 101

Meditation on loving-kindness

A guided meditation to cultivate a feeling of loving-kindness for ourselves and others, to make…

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Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions

Combating anxiety with a meditative mind

Ways that Buddhist practices of love and compassion for others can help those suffering from…

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Buddhist Meditation 101

Visualization meditation

Guided visualization meditation to bring out our positive qualities and build confidence in them.

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Wisdom

How things exist

What samsara is and how realizing emptiness helps us to get out of it.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Other types of afflictions

Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, describing different types of defilements, covering afflictions and underlying tendencies.

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Buddhist Meditation 101

How to meditate on the breath

An introduction to meditating on the breath with a guided meditation. Also an analytic meditation…

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