Teachings

Teachings on the Buddhist worldview from introductory talks to comprehensive explanations of the stages of the path to awakening.

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Venerable Thubten Chodron giving a talk in Chicago Jewel Heart Center.
Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

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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Venerable Thubten Chodron giving a talk in Chicago Jewel Heart Center.
Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

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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Venerable Thubten Chodron giving a talk in Chicago Jewel Heart Center.
Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

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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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Review of Chapter 7: Verses 156-175

A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Review of Chapter 7: Verses 151-155

A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapters 8-9: Verses 200-201

An explanation of the three kinds of compassion, dependent arising, making ourselves suitable vessels, and…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Living with loss

How to work with the emotions when we lose the things we are attached to.…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Verses 197-200

The relationship between realizing emptiness and generating bodhicitta, and why the end of afflictions is…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Ethics and right livelihood

A response to a student's question on what to do if one's loved ones are…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Self and emptiness

A discussion session that touches on the self-centered thought, how self-grasping ignorance produced afflictions, and…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Verses 195-196

How to meditate on emptiness, and the importance of reflection and meditation on the teachings.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Verses 192-194

The different ways the Buddha presented the teachings according to the disposition of the disciples.

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