Thought Training
Teachings that help us transform our minds to see people and events we find challenging from a Dharma perspective.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Attachment endangers us
How when afflictions arise, we often don’t discern them as harmful.
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Antidote for multiple mood swings in a day
Comparing the changes of the weather to our mood swings.
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How to recognize or identify our afflictions
How the body and mind give us clues when afflictions are at play.
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How intoxicants affect mindfulness and introspective...
Bringing our attention to the role of intoxicants in the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh.
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Afflictions arise with a happy or angry mind
Encouraging us to be mindful of the afflictions playing in the background of our mind.
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Holding others as supreme
The second verse of the "Eight Verses of Thought Transformation," in connection with the developments…
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Who are you judging?
Working on our anger and our judgmental minds in order to be able to see…
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More precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel
Beginning a commentary to Geshe Langri Tangpa's “Eight Verses of Thought Transformation,” the importance of…
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“Good Karma”: Creating the causes for ou...
How to use the teachings on karma and thought transformation to look at the causes…
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Consumerism and the environment
Using the thought transformation practices to monitor our mind in the context of how we…
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Mind training for a modern world
How to use everyday situations to challenge habitual ways of thinking in order to bring…
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Concentration, wisdom, and spiritual teachers
Explaining the last three verses of wisdom from the Kadam masters, which focus on concentration,…
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