Buddha nature
Teachings on buddha nature, the innate quality of the mind that enables all beings to attain enlightenment.
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Incarcerated people Daishin, big mind
We can embrace our experiences, whether difficult or pleasant, in a way that is neither…
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Kitchen Dharma
A person in prison explores opportunities to practice the Dharma in difficult living and working…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Basic goodness
The relationship between buddha nature and basic goodness, different ways to show compassion, and how…
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The Third Dalai Lama - Dec 1, 2006
The Third Dalai Lama Essence of Refined Gold
A treatise on the Lamrim Tradition of meditation, a tradition known as "Stages on the…
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Gender equality/inequality in Buddhism
How our own minds create our experience of gender equality. Addressing "problematic" text, situation of…
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Making friends with ourselves
Discovering our Buddha potential by investigating the source of lasting happiness and cultivating the heart…
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Three ways to see bodhicitta in terms of dependent a...
How to use the understanding of dependence on causes and conditions, parts and mental labeling…
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108 Verses: Verse 9
Generating compassion by seeing things as not inherently existing and changing how we act with…
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Deeply committed to freedom
An incarcerated person writes about the choice we make each day: to rise above our…
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Chapter 1: Verse 1
Explanation: there's no irreparable gap between who we are and the goal of Buddhahood. The…
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama Awakening compassion
His Holiness the Dalai Lama's foreword to "Cultivating a Compassionate Heart," on how the Chenrezig…
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