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 Verse 88: Seeds of joy
How purification and making merit support all aspects of our Dharma practice.
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Verse 87: Protecting the Dharma jewel
How the Dharma teachings that we have heard, thought, and meditated on are the most…
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Verse 86: Powerful ambrosia
Closing the gap between listening to teachings and putting them into practice.
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Verse 85: Precious and rare medicine
Why we should appreciate true and beneficial words that point out our faults instead of…
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Verse 84: Good role models
How to seek out good role models in our lives, and also how to receive…
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Verse 83: Examining the self-centered mind
The importance of looking closely at the self-centered mind that destroys all our happiness.
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Sravasti Abbey Monastics Verse 82: Impulsiveness
On how conscientiousness and forethought contribute to beneficial behavior, whereas impulsiveness only brings about the…
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Verse 81: The flying horse
Thinking deeply about whether we truly have a precious human life, and whether we are…
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Verse 80: Dwelling in sublime joy
How having a motivation to be of benefit to others enables us to have a…
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Verse 79: Freeing the mind from attachment
On how attachment to the most trivial things binds our mind to cyclic existence.
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Verse 78: The mind of equanimity
On how we can aspire to cultivate a mind that benefits others impartially, just as…
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Verse 77: Freedom from fear
How those who are foolish fear that which does not need to be feared, and…
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