How to See Yourself As You Really Are
Extensive teachings on How to See Yourself As You Really Are by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Questioning appearances
Teaching on extending the meditation on emptiness to things we own, and on the union…
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Dependent arising and emptiness
How to see ourselves as an illusion instead of buying into our usual distorted view…
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Dependent designation
Teaching on how everything depends on thought, and an explanation of the analogy of the…
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Feeling empathy
Comparing rebirth in cyclic existence to a bucket going up and down a well.
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A bucket in a well
Explaining the analogy of cyclic existence as a bucket in a well, focusing on karma…
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Compassion as an antidote to anger
The antidotes to anger as the first step towards cultivating compassion for all sentient beings.
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Closeness to others
How recognizing the kindness of others develops a sense of closeness to them.
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Love, compassion, and total commitment
The three levels of love, compassion, and total commitment, and the eight precepts of aspiring…
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The analogy of a bucket
Chapter 21: "Feeling Empathy." The first two similarities between the unsatisfactory experience of samsara, and…
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Getting in touch with dukkha
Similarities between the unsatisfactory experience in samsara and a bucket in a well, with focus…
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Expectations, fairness, and compassion
Expectations, fairness and compassion in the context of understanding our own and others' unsatisfactory experience…
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