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 What suffering does
While people seek happiness, many feel shaped through suffering. Suffering brings us out of ourselves…
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Transforming suffering
Looking at our reactions when we face adversity, and how we can transform pain and…
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Eight verses of mind training: Verses 3-6
Explaining different afflictive emotions and their respective antidotes. Using difficult people and situations for our…
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Eight verses of mind training: Verse 2
Discussion on forgiving and apologizing. Seeing that cherishing others is the source of happiness and…
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Eight verses of mind training: Verse 1
Our mind creates our experience of happiness or suffering based on how we interpret the…
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Living with loss
How to work with the emotions when we lose the things we are attached to.…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Shifting from the self-centered thought to cherishin...
The equalizing and exchanging self with others method of generating bodhicitta, and examining how the…
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Acting with wisdom and compassion
Acting with wisdom, learning to concede, and accepting personal responsibility for our actions.
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Transforming arrogance and anger
The importance of taming our arrogance and catching our disturbing attitudes through mindfulness and introspective…
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The faults of self-centeredness
Understanding the faults of the self-centered mind and the importance of bodhicitta in fulfilling our…
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Venerable Thubten Tarpa The kindness of others and wanting to repay it
What bodhicitta is, and the seven-point cause and effect method of generating it.
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Aspiring for freedom: why worldly pleasures won̵...
Cultivating contentment and aspiring for liberation, short-term pleasure versus long-term happiness.
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