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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Guest at the Abbey, turning prayer wheels.
Contentment and Happiness

Making decisions for long term benefit

How to find true long term happiness by acting ethically and benefiting others.

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Guest at the Abbey, turning prayer wheels.
Contentment and Happiness

Purifying our wrong actions

Explanation of generating regret for our past actions and making a determination not to repeat…

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Guest at the Abbey, turning prayer wheels.
Contentment and Happiness

Craving for pleasures

How we cling to sense pleasures, our own ways of doing things, and examining if…

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Guest at the Abbey, turning prayer wheels.
Contentment and Happiness

Ethical conduct and motivation

The meaning of happiness, how anger and attachment cause suffering, and the benefits of a…

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Prison Poetry

Buddha’s door

In meditation, a person in prison reflects on his experience of freedom and compassion for…

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A wood craving of a sun above the word Awaken.
By Incarcerated People

Glad to be here

A person in prison tells the story of how he happened to be in the…

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Metal bars of a solitary prison cell.
By Incarcerated People

A long-awaited vacation

How Dharma offered an important choice for an incarcerated person to transform.

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Venerable Chodron in South India with the reincarnation of her teacher, Ling Rinpoche.
Working with Emotions

Cultivating emotional balance

Focusing on our own problems only makes them worse. Expanding our view to consider other…

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Bars on a window with dead tree inside against red bricks
On Self-Worth

Shame

Finding self-respect in the respect we have for our own Buddha nature.

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Cigarettes stacked neatly with the top one burning
On Addiction

An appeal to Linda

A heartfelt plea to a loved one to stop smoking cigarettes.

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Hands holding sparklers
On Love, Compassion, and Bodhicitta

Happy birthday, Mom

A simple birthday song to an incarcerated person's mother brings happiness.

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