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 Good Karma: The four characteristics of karma
More about the characteristics of karma and how to overcome mental suffering.
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Good Karma: A short overview of the Buddhist worldview
Introduction to the Buddhist worldview and "The Wheel of Sharp Weapons."
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Living a life that matters
How to overcome the eight worldly concerns and generate bodhicitta.
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Practicing the Dharma in difficult times
How to take the difficulties that are part of life into our spiritual practice to…
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Good Karma: Offering our help to all beings
Doing the taking and giving meditation to purify past actions.
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Good Karma: Dealing with betrayal of trust
How to work with attachment and respond to harm from others with compassion.
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Good Karma: We are not inherently selfish
Purifying the harm we have done to others directly and to ourselves indirectly.
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Good Karma: Embracing hardship for others’ sake
Transforming hardship into the path to awakening.
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Good Karma: Solving problems at their root
How we can get the specific results that we want by creating the right causes.
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Good Karma: A bodhisattva’s courage
The heroism of bodhisattvas and how to gradually train the mind to look at the…
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Good Karma: Buddha nature
How the two types of buddha nature are the basis for change and awakening. The…
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Good Karma: Karma and its effects
The meaning of karma, its four principles, three branches, and three kinds of results. How…
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