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Venerable Thubten Chodron 37 Practices: Verses 9-10
How to expand our motivation beyond attaining a good rebirth to liberation and awakening to…
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37 Practices: Verses 4-8
Looking at "bad" friends who take us away from the Dharma and cherishing the spiritual…
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37 Practices: Verses 1-3
When we realize the value of a precious human life we will feel like a…
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Drakpa Gyaltsen - Jun 8, 2015
Drakpa Gyaltsen Parting from the Four Clingings
Verses describing what to practice and what to abandon along the path to awakening.
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Verse 108: The root of all goodness
The conclusion of the series, on the clear light nature of the mind and how…
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Verse 107: The legs and eyes of the path
How the practices on the method and wisdom sides of the path correspond to the…
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Verse 106: Transcending the indulgences of samsara a...
Giving up the self-centered mind and generating bodhicitta to accomplish the path to full awakening.
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Verse 105: The excellent action
Rejoicing to dispel the jealous mind and create skies of merit!
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Verse 104: The most amazing drama
Should we trust our senses? How to view the world that appears to our senses…
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Verse 103: The freedom of realizing emptiness
The importance of learning the teachings on emptiness to create the causes to free the…
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Verse 102: The sparkling mirror
How studying the lamrim and doing retreat helps us to cultivate concentration, which contributes to…
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Chasing rainbows
What actually is chocolate? When we look closely at the objects we are attached to…
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