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Tag Archives | ethical conduct
Bodhisattva versus white supremacist
Venerable Thubten Chodron comments on the Charlottesville protest rally.
How to be a Buddhist in today’s world
His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers practical advice on putting our religious and spiritual values into practice in the modern world.
The benefits of living in a monastic community
Venerable Jampa reflects on the benefits to be gained by living in a community of monastics.
Practical ethics and leadership
The first of two talks based on Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland of Advice for a King given at Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon.
Practical ethics from Nagarjuna
Advice and discussion about governing and leadership, Buddhist activism, and compassion towards prisoners.
Finding the self
Teaching on the compatibility of dependent arising and emptiness.
Dependent designation
Teaching on how everything depends on thought, and an explanation of the analogy of the rope and the snake that is often used to explain emptiness.
Dependent arising and emptiness
How to see ourselves as an illusion instead of buying into our usual distorted view of reality.
Questioning appearances
Teaching on extending the meditation on emptiness to things we own, and on the union of serenity and insight.