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Practicing with adversity

Practices that can be used to transform adverse circumstances into the path.

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Transforming adversity into the path

Practical ways to practice mind training, looking at problems as opportunities to practice.

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Taking and giving meditation

Practical ways to use love and compassion for others when afflictions arise in daily life.

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Review: Transforming adversity

A review of recent talks on the taking and giving meditation and transforming adversity into…

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Resistance to practicing tonglen

How the taking and giving practice can transform our minds, making us happier.

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Eroding self-centeredness

How we can use the meditation on taking on the suffering of others to erode…

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Taking on the suffering of others

How to meditate on taking the suffering of others, beginning with taking on the suffering…

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Giving our virtue

How training the mind to become familiar with giving increases our generosity and the importance…

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Giving to others

Transforming our bodies into what helps others progress on the path and how to meditate…

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Review: Who to cherish

A review of the disadvantages of the self-centered thought and the benefits of cherishing others.

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Review: The self-centered thought

Review of the section of the text on the disadvantages of the self-centered thought.

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Giving to those who harm us

Giving to those in the various realms and how to transform resistance towards giving to…

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