Students' Insights
Students share how they integrate the Dharma into their daily lives and to face challenging situations.
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On Cultivating Virtue
Reflections on how to live in line with our values and practice ethical conduct.
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On Impermanence
Coming to terms with loss, aging, and death with the help of the Dharma.
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On Refuge and Bodhicitta
Trusting the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha and aspiring to attain buddhahood.
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On Taking Illness Onto the Path
Turning to the Dharma for support when experiencing illness and injury.
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On Working with Afflictions
Learning to identify afflictions and apply the antidotes to calm the mind.
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Revoking anger’s “Get out of trouble free” card
Anger can make us impulsive, making us feel out of control. A simple meditation shows…
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Some thoughts on the practice of gratitude
As His Holiness the Dalai Lama reminds us, we become happier by becoming kinder.
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Invasive weeds of the mind
Venerable Dekyi compares working in the Abbey's gardens to cultivating the wisdom and compassion of…
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What a wonderful world!
A student reflects on how pain and suffering can be transformed into "little bits of…
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Using the Dharma to manage an unpredictable illness
A students uses her Dharma practice to face adversity, and then uses that same adversity…
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Clarity, confidence and courage
Antidotes to the afflictions of confusion, self-doubt, and fear that hold us back in our…
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Transforming adversity
When our lives are changed because of illness, we still practice the Dharma.
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It takes courage on both sides
A Dharma practitioner and healthcare provider shares her experience on the front lines of the…
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Don’t take life for granted
"In the blink of an eye, everything can change." A student examines how this truth…
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