Dharma in Daily Life
Bringing our practice off the cushion into daily life activities and our interactions with others.
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Cultivating Healthy Relationships
Relate to others with awareness of their kindness and the wish to benefit them.
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Living with Impermanence
Applying the Dharma when faced with our own and others' experience of aging, sickness, and death.
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Related Series
When the Chocolate Runs Out (2018)
Short talks on pith advice from the end of When the Chocolate Runs Out by Lama Thubten Yeshe.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The continuity of consciousness
Exploring the continuity of consciousness in regards to karma and impermanence.
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Preparing for death
The importance of end-of-life planning and how to work with death in a way that…
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Karma and rebirth
Exploring karma, rebirth, and the way that causes and conditions influence our lives.
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Mind, consciousness, and AI
Exploring the differing causes of body and mind and issues related to artificial intelligence.
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Richard Phua - Feb 21, 2026
Richard Phua A Dad’s Words: When Dharma and Your Kids Mix
A reflection on Dharma and the family, written by a student of Venerable Chodron's.
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What if everything you’re chasing is the problem?
Exploring how to live with wisdom and compassion in a modern world.
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Aging, sickness and death: The life stages we go thr...
A look at life's milestones with question and answer session.
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How to integrate Dharma in daily life and other prac...
Question and answer session on Dharma practice and daily life.
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Who am I without my job title?—talk for young adults
A look at our sense of identity and self-worth.
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Impermanence, interdependence, and emptiness
Investigating if things and people exist the way they appear.
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Curiosity as a catalyst for connecting
How responding to differing views with curiosity can foster meaningful connections.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Death and purification
The four powers of purification and the importance of purification now and at the time…
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