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Students share how they integrate the Dharma into their daily lives and to face challenging situations.

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Dharma Poetry

To reach potential

A meditation on the folly of self-absorption and the constant striving for attainment.

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Students' Insights

My karma beatdown

A karmic payback incident shows how to avoid suffering by avoiding those negative actions that…

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Stephen listening to a teaching and smiling.
On Refuge and Bodhicitta

Self-acceptance

A student contemplates connecting with his own experience in order to develop compassion for others.

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On Impermanence

My father’s death

A student reflects on the death of his aged father.

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Man sitting on floor, looking sad.
On Refuge and Bodhicitta

So, now what?

Can practicing the Dharma help with how we are feeling about the recent election? A…

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Gloved hand holding credit card at keyboard of computer.
On Emptiness

Identity theft

Fraudulent tax returns and changing credit scores elicit a meditation on emptiness.

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On Impermanence

Being Tashi, facing the death of a child

A student searches for peace after the death of her child.

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Two young men passing a hot potato.
On Working with Afflictions

Hot potato

A Dharma student realizes that his attachments are the cause of his suffering.

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Man in business suit and carrying briefcase, walking at sunset.
On Taking Illness Onto the Path

A wake-up call

A newly-diagnosed health problem brings a practitioner face to face with the reality of impermanence.

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Women conversing.
On Working with Afflictions

The conversation

A student listens to the conversations that go on inside her head, and decides to…

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Dharma Poetry

Figure-ground

Just as voids in the urban fabric give rise to plazas, so too the conventions…

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Statue of Buddha in garden.
On Working with Afflictions

Why do I get angry?

When anger arises, we can choose not to stay in its thrall. Anger is based…

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