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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Good Karma: We are not inherently selfish
Purifying the harm we have done to others directly and to ourselves indirectly.
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Transforming hardship into the path to awakening.
View PostGood Karma: Solving problems at their root
How we can get the specific results that we want by creating the right causes.
View PostGood Karma: A bodhisattva’s courage
The heroism of bodhisattvas and how to gradually train the mind to look at the…
View PostGood Karma: Buddha nature
How the two types of buddha nature are the basis for change and awakening. The…
View PostGood Karma: Karma and its effects
The meaning of karma, its four principles, three branches, and three kinds of results. How…
View PostGood Karma: The eight worldly concerns
How subduing the eight worldly concerns is the first step in living a spiritual or…
View PostGood Karma: The causes of happiness and suffering
How karma is like a boomerang, whatever actions we do return and have a similar…
View PostThe 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 33-37
Commentary on thought transformation verses on guiding the mind toward virtuous mental states to benefit…
View PostThe 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 27-32
Commentary on thought transformation verses on developing the far-reaching attitudes of fortitude, joyous effort, concentration…
View PostThe 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 23-26
Commentary on thought transformation verses that look at attachment and anger from the viewpoint of…
View PostThe 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verse 22
The way phenomena appear to us is dependent on our mind. A look at how…
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