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 Introduction to the text
The purpose and origin of the thought-training teachings. An introduction to the text and the…
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Transforming the judgmental mind
Can we really hold all beings dear, even those whose actions are harmful? These talks…
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Compassion seeing emptiness
Importance of daily practice and applying the teachings in our lives.
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108 Verses: Verses 8-9
Different ways to view sentient beings in order to cultivate deeper compassion.
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Where is attachment?
Seeing the source of attachment or anger in order for us to eliminate them.
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Our real enemy
Seeing how our own afflictions are our real enemy and how we should be relentless…
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Guided meditation on Verse 7
How changing our world view can help us move in the right direction.
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108 Verses: A bucket in a well
Comparing how we go from one birth to another repeatedly through an analogy of bucket…
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108 Verses: Verses 1-6
How great compassion protects our minds from afflictions and guides us through the spiritual path.
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Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 4-5
Looking into our hearts, seeing that we all want happiness and we do not want…
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Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 1-3
Seeing others as karmic bubbles in order to loosen our rigid conception of them.
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