Dharma in Action

The real meaning of Dharma practice is to transform our minds. The rubber meets the road when we get off the cushion and live our practice in daily life.

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

The eight stages of the death process

Explaining the eight stages of the death process, speaking on how to help people who…

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

How to prepare for death

Teaching on how to prepare ourselves for death, on the five powers, and answering questions…

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

The uncertainty of the time of death

Leading a guided meditation on the second three points in the 9-point death meditation on…

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

Meditation on the inevitability of death

A guided meditation on the first three points in the nine-point meditation on death focusing…

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

The inevitability of death

Covering the first three points in the nine-point meditation on death focusing on the inevitability…

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

What Buddhism says about death

Reviewing Buddhist views on death and speaking on the importance of accepting our death so…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Rules of the universe and the benefits of cherishing...

How to identify our personal "Rules of the Universe" and their connection to the self-centered…

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An Open-Hearted Life

The disadvantages of self-centeredness

Decreasing self-centeredness broadens our view beyond ourselves and changes our relationship with others and the…

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Venerable Chodron sitting with a panel of presenters.
Cultivating Compassion

Learning, Living, and Teaching Bodhicitta

The publication of Venerable Thubten Chodron's panel talk at The International Conference on the Life,…

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