death
Teachings on death from a Buddhist perspective, including preparing for death, dying peacefully, and helping the dying.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Contemplating death
Contemplating death helps us establish healthy relationships with our friends, our possessions, and our body.
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Introduction to the nine-point death meditation
An introduction to the nine-point death meditation. Two sets of three points are covered in…
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Rarity of a precious human life
Discussion regarding the rarity of creating the causes and conditions for a precious human life…
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Verse 20-1: Going downhill
The importance of preventing sentient beings, and ourselves, from being born in the lower realms.
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Verse 14-2: What samsara is
The samsara we're in is this very body and mind, not the external world.
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Mid-retreat discussion
Addressing questions on different aspects of the meditation: the body, emptiness, visualization and deity meditation.
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Laziness that interferes with practice
How laziness interferes with Dharma practice. What it means to be kind to ourselves and…
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Sufferings of cyclic existence
A realistic look at the defects of cyclic existence and the determination to be free.
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The truth of dukkha
Exploration of the first noble truth, the truth of dukkha: recognizing the defects of samsara,…
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Mary Grace Lentz Setting a good motivation for surgery
A student shares how setting a strong virtuous motivation transformed her experience of undergoing brain…
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How rebirth works
The benefit of contemplating the possibility of rebirth in the lower realms and how our…
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