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37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness
Bodhisattva Ethical Restraints
Bodhisattva Path
- “Supplement to the Middle way”
- 41 Prayers to Cultivate Bodhicitta
- 70 Topics: Application in complete aspects
- 70 Topics: Bodhicitta
- 70 Topics: Concentrations, absorptions, and bodhisattva grounds
- 70 Topics: Introduction
- 70 Topics: Introduction to application in complete aspects
- 70 Topics: Knower of all bases
- 70 Topics: Knower of paths
- 70 Topics: Mahayana instructions
- 70 Topics: Mahayana path of meditation
- 70 Topics: Mahayana paths
- 70 Topics: Peak application
- 70 Topics: The four applications and Buddhahood
- 70 Topics: The four buddha bodies
- A bodhisattva’s humility
- A joyous long-term vision
- Abandoning attachment
- Acting appropriately
- Advantages of bodhicitta
- Aggression, arrogance and grudges
- An introduction to grounds and paths
- Anger and forgiveness
- Antidotes to anger
- Asanga’s hearer’s grounds
- Aspirations for degenerate times
- Aspiring and engaging bodhicitta
- Attachment and anger
- Attachment hinders our concentration
- Attachment to body, friends, and family
- Attachment to the body
- Averting the causes of war
- Awakening joy
- Awareness of our body and speech
- Benefits of studying the grounds and paths
- Biting the hook of anger
- Bodhicitta makes life meaningful
- Bodhicitta, a vast perspective
- Bodhicitta: Gateway to the Mahayana path
- Bodhicitta: The jewel of the mind
- Bodhisattva aryas’ grounds
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: 6 causes of afflictions
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 11
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 25
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 35
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 45
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vow 46
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 12-15
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 16-18
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 19-22
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 2-4
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 22-24
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 26-29
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 30-33
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 34-35
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 36-38
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 39-41
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 4-5
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 41-43
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 43-44
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 6-7
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Auxiliary vows 8-10
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Introduction and vows 1-3
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Introduction and vows 1-3
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: The five hindrances
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vow 18 and auxiliary vow 1
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 12-14
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 15-17
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 4-5
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 6-8
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints: Vows 9-11
- Bodhisattva grounds
- Bodhisattva grounds
- Bodhisattva grounds and paths
- Bodhisattva root downfalls 11-18
- Bodhisattva secondary misdeeds 1-9
- Bodhisattva secondary misdeeds 10-22
- Buddha’s life and Mahayana
- Buddha’s first precious teaching
- Buddhahood
- Buddhahood and individual liberation
- Buddhahood: Four buddha bodies
- Challenging the ego
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 1: Verse 1
- Chapter 1: Verses 2-6
- Chapter 1: Verses 7-36
- Chapter 2: Verses 1-6
- Chapter 2: Verses 24-39
- Chapter 2: Verses 40-65
- Chapter 2: Verses 7-23
- Chapter 3: Verses 1-3
- Chapter 3: Verses 10-20
- Chapter 3: Verses 22-33
- Chapter 3: Verses 4-10
- Chapter 4: Verses 1-8
- Chapter 4: Verses 17-26
- Chapter 4: Verses 9-16
- Chapter 5: Verses 1-16
- Chapter 5: Verses 17-33
- Chapter 5: Verses 34-54
- Chapter 6 Verses 46-55
- Chapter 6 Verses 56-72
- Chapter 6 Verses 73-82
- Chapter 6 Verses 83-133
- Chapter 6: Verses 1-3
- Chapter 6: Verses 1-7
- Chapter 6: Verses 10-12
- Chapter 6: Verses 112-118
- Chapter 6: Verses 119-126
- Chapter 6: Verses 12-16
- Chapter 6: Verses 127-134
- Chapter 6: Verses 17-26
- Chapter 6: Verses 22-31
- Chapter 6: Verses 27-38
- Chapter 6: Verses 31-45
- Chapter 6: Verses 39-51
- Chapter 6: Verses 4-9
- Chapter 6: Verses 52-65
- Chapter 6: Verses 66-86
- Chapter 6: Verses 8-21
- Chapter 6: Verses 87-97
- Chapter 6: Verses 98-111
- Chapter 7: Verses 1-15
- Chapter 7: Verses 15-30
- Chapter 7: Verses 31-49
- Chapter 7: Verses 50-58
- Chapter 7: Verses 59-76
- Chapter 8: Verses 1-3
- Chapter 8: Verses 1–6
- Chapter 8: Verses 4-7
- Chapter 8: Verses 8-12
- Cherishing others
- Cherishing our enemies
- Childish sentient beings
- Commentary on the author’s introduction
- Common and uncommon afflictions
- Compassion as cause of bodhisattvas
- Compassion conjoined with wisdom
- Compassion for difficult people
- Competition and exchanging self with others
- Concentration and wisdom
- Conscientiousness
- Contemplating karma and its effects
- Conventional consciousness
- Counteracting anger
- Counteracting laziness
- Courage in the face of harm
- Courage to practice
- Crises in monastic life
- Cultivating positive states of mind
- Day 1: Questions and answers
- Day 1: Questions and answers
- Day 2: Questions and answers
- Day 2: Questions and answers
- Day 3: Questions and answers
- Debating impermanence
- Debating with anger
- Declaring my faults & praising others
- Dependent arising and bodhicitta
- Determining to practice patience
- Developing equanimity
- Developing three kinds of compassion
- Different kinds of refuge
- Diligence and concentration
- Disadvantages of discarding bodhicitta
- Disadvantages of miserliness
- Dispelling all suffering
- Distracted by the causes for pain
- Divisions of bodhisattva grounds
- Don’t misunderstand Shantideva
- Enacting others’ welfare
- Enough childish behavior!
- Equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Equalizing self and other ultimately
- Equalizing self and others
- Equanimity
- Equanimity
- Equanimity and bodhicitta
- Everyone wants happiness
- Exchanging our bodies with others
- Existence of person and obscurations
- Explanation of the middle way view
- Facing harm with fortitude
- Far-reaching ethical conduct
- Far-reaching fortitude
- Far-reaching generosity
- Far-reaching joyous effort
- Far-reaching meditative stabilization and wisdom
- First bodhisattva ground: The Very Joyful
- First ground of bodhisattva superiors
- Fortitude and diligence
- Fortitude for those who cause harm
- Four opponent powers
- Four opponent powers
- Freedoms and fortunes of a precious human life
- Freeing ourselves from negativity
- Fundamental and Universal Vehicles
- Fundamental Vehicle grounds and paths
- Generating regret
- Generating wisdom
- Giving our body and the Dharma
- Giving ourselves to others
- Giving up attachment
- Giving up desire
- Guarding the mind
- Hearer’s path and nirvana
- Hearer’s path of accumulation
- Hearer’s path of preparation, seeing, and meditation
- Hearers and solitary realizers
- Help and harm
- Homage to Compassion
- Homage to great compassion
- How the afflictions deceive us
- How to act when afflictions arise
- How to think like a bodhisattva
- Illusion or illusion like
- Imagining our death and pacifying distractions
- Inspiring the heart on the path
- Introduction and homage
- Introduction: Cultivating bodhicitta daily
- Intrusive conditions and incompatible propensities
- Isolation of body and mind
- It’s unreasonable to be angry
- Jealousy
- Joy and rest as supports for joyous effort
- Joyful effort
- Joyfully engaging in virtue
- Joyous effort, concentration & wisdom
- Joyous effort, ignorance, and laziness
- Keeping the promise of bodhicitta
- Kindness and the benefits of engaged bodhicitta
- Living in the jaws of death
- Mahayana grounds and paths
- Mahayana path introduction
- Mahayana path of accumulation
- Mahayana path of meditation
- Mahayana path of preparation
- Mahayana path of seeing
- Making effort with joy
- Making effort, joyfully
- Making sensuous offerings to the Buddhas
- Meditation on equanimity
- Meditation on taking the bodhisattva vow
- Mind-generation with Venerable Sangye Khadro, Part 1
- Mind-generation with Venerable Sangye Khadro, Part 2
- Mindfulness and fear
- Mindfulness and introspective awareness
- Motivations behind giving
- Natural nirvana and actual nirvana
- No real owner of suffering
- Objects of great compassion
- Offering natural substances
- Offering our bodies to all sentient beings
- Offering ourselves to the Buddhas
- Opposing the self-centered thought
- Others are as important as ourselves
- Others have been kind
- Outshining hearers and solitary realizers
- Outshining through intelligence
- Overcoming afflictions
- Overcoming discouragement
- Paramita of ethical conduct
- Paramita of fortitude
- Paramita of generosity
- Path of seeing
- Paths of accumulation and preparation
- People do not learn by suffering
- Perfection of generosity: Do we really own anything?
- Perfection of generosity: Generosity in everyday situations
- Perfection of generosity: Generosity in the Jataka Tales
- Perfection of generosity: Giving fearlessly
- Perfection of generosity: Learning to connect with everybody
- Perfection of generosity: Non-material giving
- Perfection of generosity: Offering our universe
- Perfection of generosity: Pure and impure giving
- Perfection of generosity: The benefits of giving wisely
- Perfection of generosity: What makes generosity sincere
- Pleasing sentient beings
- Practical advice on manners
- Practicing joyous effort
- Practicing the Dharma with bodhicitta
- Practitioners of great scope
- Praise and reputation
- Praise and reputation
- Precious human life
- Preparing the mind for tonglen
- Purification of misdeeds with Q&A
- Pushed by our afflictions
- Putting the dharma into practice
- Qualities of bodhisattva ground 7
- Qualities of bodhisattva grounds 2-3
- Qualities of bodhisattva grounds 4-6
- Qualities of bodhisattva grounds 8-10
- Quiz 1: Hearer’s grounds and paths
- Quiz 2: Mahayana grounds and paths
- Quiz 3: Grounds and paths
- Realizing emptiness by hearers and solitary realizers
- Recollecting the Buddha
- Refuting a primal substance and independent self
- Refuting self-cognition
- Refuting the realists
- Regretting negativity by reflecting on death
- Rejoicing in others’ qualities
- Removing barriers to forgiveness
- Requesting teachings and our teachers to remain
- Resolute and stable
- Resolving to overcome our afflictions
- Respecting sentient beings
- Retaliation
- Review of bodhicitta
- Review of Chapter 1
- Review of Chapter 2
- Review of Chapter 3
- Review of Chapter 4
- Review of Chapter Five: “Guarding Alertness”
- Review of Chapter Five: “Guarding Alertness”, part two
- Review of Chapter Nine: Verses 1-4
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 1-11
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 12-21
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 22-34
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 36-40
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 40-42
- Review of Chapter Six: Verses 43-44
- Review of the two truths
- Review Quiz 1: Question 6
- Review Quiz 1: Questions 1-5
- Review Quiz 1: Questions 7-8
- Review Quiz 1: Questions 9-10
- Review Quiz 2: Questions 1-2
- Review Quiz 2: Questions 3-4
- Review Quiz 2: Questions 5-6
- Review Quiz 2: Questions 7-8
- Review Quiz 3: Questions 1-4
- Review Quiz 3: Questions 13-16
- Review Quiz 3: Questions 5-8
- Review Quiz 3: Questions 9-12
- Review session: Bodhisattva paths and grounds
- Review session: Bodhisattvas outshine through intelligence
- Review session: Coarse and subtle selflessness
- Review session: Compassion, impermanence and emptiness
- Review session: Identifying the root of samsara
- Review session: The first two bodhisattva grounds
- Review session: Three types of compassion
- Root bodhisattva downfalls
- Secondary misdeeds 23-32
- Secondary misdeeds 33-46
- Self-confidence
- Selflessness of phenomena
- Seven amazing feats of Shantideva
- Seven-point cause and effect
- Special verse: Oceans of merit
- Steadfastness
- Steadfastness and self-confidence
- Summary and review of Chapter 2
- Summary of the Fundamental Vehicle
- Sustaining a steady Dharma practice
- Taking and giving
- Taking pleasure in bad actions
- Taking the bodhisattva ethical restraint
- Taming the mind: Questions and answers
- Tenets review
- The advantages of bodhicitta
- The benefits of bodhichitta
- The benefits of bodhicitta
- The benefits of difficulties
- The bodhisattva ethical code
- The bodhisattva ideal
- The body is not beautiful
- The courage to destroy the afflictions
- The danger of anger
- The danger of attachment to the body
- The defects of anger
- The disadvantages of samsara
- The enemy of the afflictions
- The ethical conduct of gathering virtue and benefiting sentient beings
- The ethical conduct of restraining from nonvirtue
- The ethics of altruism
- The far-reaching practice of generosity
- The faults of attachment
- The faults of self-centeredness
- The filth of the body
- The first bodhisattva ground
- The foulness of the body
- The four powers that increase joyous effort
- The joy of serving sentient beings
- The kind of person I want to be
- The kindness of enemies
- The kindness of others
- The meaning of compassion
- The merits of bodhicitta
- The perfection of ethical conduct & fortitude
- The practices of bodhisattvas—four types of generosity
- The practices of bodhisattvas—the six perfections
- The precepts of aspiring bodhicitta
- The precepts of aspiring bodhicitta
- The rarity of a precious human life
- The seed of enlightenment
- The skeleton in the body
- The source of disagreement
- The three levels of spiritual practitioner
- The three types of compassion
- The two truths
- Three types of compassion
- Three ways to see bodhicitta in terms of dependent arising
- Training the mind in giving
- Transforming anger
- Transforming hindrances and adversity
- Understanding anger
- Unhappiness fuels anger
- Verse 1: The citadel of liberation
- Verse 10-1: The fuel of the passions
- Verse 10-2: Counteracting the defilements
- Verse 10-3: Meditating on emptiness
- Verse 11: The fire of wisdom
- Verse 12: The nectar of wisdom
- Verse 13: The nourishment of samadhi
- Verse 14-1: The prison of cyclic existence
- Verse 14-2: What samsara is
- Verse 14-3: Three higher trainings
- Verse 15-1: Plunging into cyclic existence
- Verse 15-2: Three kinds of bodhisattvas
- Verse 15-3: Giving up everything for others
- Verse 15-4: Wisdom in benefitting others
- Verse 16: Opening the door of liberation
- Verse 17-1: Closing the door to the lower realms
- Verse 17-2: Taking care of ourselves
- Verse 17-3: Teaching the Dharma
- Verse 17-4: Gathering disciples
- Verse 17-5: Value of keeping precepts
- Verse 18: The exalted path
- Verse 19-1: The upper realms
- Verse 19-2: Precious human life
- Verse 19-3: Bodhisattva practices
- Verse 19-4: Antidote to depression
- Verse 2: The dimension of reality
- Verse 20-1: Going downhill
- Verse 20-2: The lower realms
- Verse 20-3: Creating the causes
- Verse 21-1: On meeting others
- Verse 21-2: Seeing the buddha in others
- Verse 21-3: Buddha nature
- Verse 21-4: Emptiness of mind
- Verse 22-1: Bodhicitta while walking
- Verse 22-2: Toward the welfare of all beings
- Verse 23-1: Lifting all beings from samsara
- Verse 23-2: Mahayana walking meditation
- Verse 24-1: Wearing ornaments
- Verse 24-2: Marks of a buddha
- Verse 25-1: Without ornaments
- Verse 25-2: Ascetic practices
- Verse 26-1: Filled with good qualities
- Verse 26-2: Filling containers
- Verse 26-3: Reducing jealousy and anger
- Verse 27: Empty containers
- Verse 28: Joy in the teachings
- Verse 29: Dissatisfaction with samsara
- Verse 3: The dreamlike nature of things
- Verse 30-1: Happiness
- Verse 30-2: The bliss of a buddha
- Verse 31: Seeing someone suffering
- Verse 32-1: Being free from illness
- Verse 32-2: Working with sickness
- Verse 32-3: Renouncing suffering
- Verse 32-4: Aging gracefully
- Verse 32-5: Who is sick?
- Verse 33-1: Repaying kindness
- Verse 33-2: The kindness of others
- Verse 33-3: Had we not met the Dharma….
- Verse 33-4: The kindness of the Three Jewels
- Verse 34-1: Unkind to wrong views
- Verse 34-2: Making offerings
- Verse 34-3: Delight in giving
- Verse 34-4: How we repay others’ kindness
- Verse 34-5: Afflicted views
- Verse 34-6: Three Jewels, rebirth, and karma
- Verse 34-7: What the mind is
- Verse 35-1: Seeing a dispute
- Verse 35-2: Conflict styles, part 1
- Verse 35-3: Conflict styles, part 2
- Verse 35-4: Conflict styles, part 3
- Verse 36-1: Praising others
- Verse 36-2: Other people’s qualities
- Verse 36-3: How to praise people
- Verse 36-4: Praising the buddhas and bodhisattvas
- Verse 37: Discussing the teachings
- Verse 38: Representations of the Buddha
- Verse 39: Monuments of enlightenment
- Verse 4: The sleep of ignorance
- Verse 40-1: Faith in the Three Jewels
- Verse 40-2: Three kinds of faith
- Verse 40-3: Ethical conduct
- Verse 40-4: Learning
- Verse 40-5: Generosity
- Verse 40-6: Integrity
- Verse 40-7: Consideration for others
- Verse 40-8: Discriminating wisdom
- Verse 41: Praising the Buddha
- Verse 5-1: Attaining the form buddha bodies
- Verse 5-2: Creating the causes
- Verse 6-1: Robes of integrity
- Verse 6-2: Consideration for others
- Verse 6-3: A clear conscience
- Verse 7: Secured by the root of virtue
- Verse 8: The seat of enlightenment
- Verse 9: The tree of enlightenment
- Verses 2-4: Review
- Verses review: The Buddhist view
- Vesak verse: Bodhicitta on Vesak day
- We are all equal
- Wealth is fraught with problems
- Wealth is suffering
- What is prayer?
- Where do the afflictions exist?
- Who’s responsible for our suffering
- Why bodhicitta is so powerful
- Why do I protect myself and not others?
- Why is bodhicitta so powerful?
- Wisdom and compassion
- Wishing bodhicitta
- Working with anger
- Working with anger, developing fortitude
- Working with difficult situations
- Working with jealousy
- Yogis and common people
Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions
Buddhist Reasoning and Debate
- A defender’s four answers
- A graded range of consciousnesses
- Agent, action, and object
- An introduction to Tibetan Buddhist debate
- Believing in something that is not real
- Buddhist ontology
- Challengers and defenders
- Choosing your debate partner
- Comparisons of consciousnesses
- Conceptual and nonconceptual minds
- Concluding review
- Consequences
- Correct signs practice and review
- Debate in action
- Debate practice continued
- Debate review
- Definitions
- Definitions, divisions, and consequences
- Direct perceivers
- Divisions and illustrations
- Divisions of the selfless
- Divisions of the selfless
- Doubt and correctly assuming consciousness
- Epistemological requirements
- Facsimiles of direct perceivers
- Forming a correct syllogism
- Forward pervasion
- Four kinds of direct perceivers
- Four possibilities
- Functioning things
- Hidden phenomena and manifest phenomena
- Impermanent and permanent phenomena
- Inattentive perceptions, doubt, and wrong consciousnesses
- Inferential cognizers and direct perceivers
- Internal matter
- Is what we think true?
- Let’s debate!
- Making flawless syllogisms
- Manjushri, the special deity of debate
- Meet people where they are
- Mental consciousness
- More debate practice
- Motivation to practice
- Mutually inclusive phenomena
- Nonassociated compositional factors
- Nonassociated compositional factors that are not persons
- Nonexistents
- Object ascertaining mental factors
- One and different
- One and different as subjects
- One and many as predicates
- Outline of the selfless
- Permanent phenomena and functioning things
- Practice syllogisms
- Practicing the comparison of phenomena
- Practicing the defender’s answers
- Practicing the Dharma
- Products and nonproduced phenomena
- Proving four possibilities and mutual exclusion
- Proving mutual inclusion
- Review night
- Review of abstract composites
- Review of chapters 11 and 12
- Review of consequences
- Review of definitions
- Review of Definitions
- Review of divisions of the selfless
- Review of external matter
- Review of four possibilities
- Review of functioning things
- Review of internal matter and consciousness
- Review of procedures in debate
- Review of sounds, odors and tastes
- Review of three possibilities
- Review: Chapters 7-8
- Seven kinds of awareness
- Sounds, odors and tangible objects
- Specifically and generally characterized phenomena
- Statements of pervasion
- Statements of pervasion review
- Statements of qualities
- Statements of qualities review
- Statements of qualities review II
- Statements of qualities, Part 2
- Strategies in debate
- Subsequent cognizers
- Syllogisms
- Syllogisms
- Syllogisms review
- The benefits of the study of Dudra
- The Buddhist enthymeme
- The Buddhist syllogism
- The challenger responds to the defender
- The clap!
- The comparison of phenomena
- The comparison of phenomena
- The defender’s answers
- The defender’s response
- The equivalents of existents
- The omnipresent mental factors
- The opening volleys
- The root affliction of anger
- The root affliction of attachment
- The three higher trainings
- The three purposes of debate
- Thought consciousnesses and direct perceivers
- Thought consciousnesses and direct perceivers
- Three kinds of sameness
- Three types of correct signs
- Tips for practice
- Ultimate and conventional truths
- Valid syllogisms
- Virtuous mental factors #2-6
- Virtuous mental factors #7-11
- Western philosophy and early Buddhist knowledge
- What is the mind?
- Why study debate?
Buddhist Tenet Systems
- Benefits of cultivating bodhicitta
- Benefits of studying emptiness
- Buddhism, science, and mind
- Buddhist tenet systems: origin and background
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 1
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 2
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 3
- Buddhist tenet systems: Question and answers part 4
- Buddhist tenet systems: Sprititual disposition and Buddha nature
- Buddhist tenet systems: What is the person?
- Buddhist tenet systems: Zeroing in on the correct view
- Conventional and ultimate truths
- Discussion: Mind-only school
- Discussion: Perceptions and existence
- Emptiness and bodhicitta
- Emptiness and impermanence
- Emptiness in everyday life
- Five paths, buddhas, and arhats
- Four seals, obstacles, and enemies of bodhicitta
- Generating bodhicitta
- Goals and obscurations
- Hearers, solitary realizers, bodhisattvas
- Imputed and established natures
- Introduction to Buddhist tenets
- Introduction to the tenets
- Introduction to the two truths
- Karma, impermanence, and cognition
- Meditation on emptiness
- Mental states and objects of knowledge
- Mind basis of all
- Mind-only school
- Mind-only tenet school: Part 1
- Mind-only tenet school: Part 2
- Mind-only tenet school: Part 3
- Persons, perceptions, and mental factors
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 1
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 2
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 3
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 4
- Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 5
- Questions and answers: Existence and tenets
- Reality and appearances
- Sautrāntika and two truths
- Sautrāntika tenet school: Part 1
- Sautrāntika tenet school: Part 2
- Sautrāntika tenet school: Part 3
- Sautrantika views
- Scripture and reasoning
- Single and different
- Sutra school: Phenomena and cognition
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 1
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 2
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 3
- Svātantrika Madhyamaka tenets: Part 4
- Tenet systems and the extremes
- The four seals
- The two truths and dependent arising
- The two truths and different tenets
- The two truths and karma
- The two truths and Tibetan philosophy
- The two truths in the Cittamatra system
- The two truths in the four schools
- The two truths: Conclusion
- The two truths: Conventional existence
- The two truths: Questions and answers
- The two truths: The Sautrantika view
- The two truths: The Svatantrika view
- Understanding the tenet systems
- Vaibashika, Sautrantika, and Mind-only
- Vaibhāṣika tenet school: Part 1
- Vaibhāṣika tenet school: Part 2
- Vaibhāṣika tenet school: Part 3
Buddhist Worldview
- Saying goodbye to our spiritual teachers
- “Five Faultless Gifts” and “Five Blessings”
- 100,000 Bows Toward Full Awakening
- 12 links of dependent arising
- A kind heart as our motivation
- Applying Buddhist logic in meditation
- Appreciating the opportunity to practice
- Areligious Buddhism: Is there such a thing?
- Attributes of true cessations: Cessation and peace
- Attributes of true cessations: Magnificent and Freedom
- Attributes of true dukkha: Dukkha
- Attributes of true dukkha: Empty
- Attributes of true dukkha: Impermanence
- Attributes of true dukkha: Selfless
- Attributes of true origins: Cause
- Attributes of true origins: Conditions
- Attributes of true origins: Origin
- Attributes of true origins: Strong producers
- Attributes of true paths: Accomplishment and irreversible
- Attributes of true paths: Path and suitable
- Being a wise practitioner
- Being kind to oneself
- Big love
- Big love
- Bringing the Dharma into the aging process
- Buddha’s advice for a better world
- Buddhism from a practitioner’s perspective
- Changing our minds and emotional habits
- Changing our wrong conceptions
- Chapter 1: Buddhism in China and Tibet
- Chapter 1: Early Buddhist history
- Chapter 1: Origin and spread of the Buddha’s doctrine
- Chapter 10: Progressing on the path
- Chapter 11: Immeasurable love
- Chapter 11: The four immeasurables
- Chapter 12: Bodhicitta
- Chapter 12: Bodhicitta in the Chinese tradition
- Chapter 12: Bodhicitta in the Pali tradition
- Chapter 12: Genuine self-confidence
- Chapter 12: How to generate bodhicitta
- Chapter 13: Fortitude through wisdom
- Chapter 13: More on the perfections
- Chapter 13: Perfections unique to the Pali tradition
- Chapter 13: The perfection of fortitude
- Chapter 13: The ten perfections in the Pali tradition
- Chapter 13: The ten perfections in the Sanskrit tradition
- Chapter 14-15: Buddha nature in Chan Buddhism
- Chapter 14: Buddha nature
- Chapter 14: Buddha nature in the Mind-Only school
- Chapter 14: Perspectives on buddha nature
- Chapter 15: Tantra and conclusion
- Chapter 2: Monastic stages of refuge
- Chapter 2: Qualities of refuge and The Three Jewels
- Chapter 2: Refuge in and proof of the existence of the Three Jewels
- Chapter 2: Refuge In the Pali tradition
- Chapter 2: The stages of buddhahood
- Chapter 2: The Tathagata’s ten powers and six unshared behaviors
- Chapter 3: Sanskrit view of the noble eightfold path
- Chapter 3: Stages of the noble eightfold path
- Chapter 3: The Pali view of the noble eightfold path
- Chapter 3: True suffering and its attributes
- Chapter 4: Ethical conduct and the monastic community
- Chapter 4: Higher trainings and precepts
- Chapter 5: Concentration: Sanskrit tradition
- Chapter 5: Concentration: Pali teachings
- Chapter 5: Concentration: Process, barriers, and signs along the way
- Chapter 5: Concentration: Sanskrit and Chinese traditions
- Chapter 5: Higher training in concentration
- Chapter 6-7: Review and overview
- Chapter 6: Mindfulness of the body and mind
- Chapter 6: The 37 aids to awakening
- Chapter 6: The four establishments of mindfulness
- Chapter 7: Emptiness and selflessness
- Chapter 7: Refuting the inherently existent self
- Chapter 7: The four extremes of arising
- Chapter 7: The object of negation
- Chapter 8: Dependent arising
- Chapter 8: Levels of dependence
- Chapter 8: Twelve links of dependent arising
- Chapter 9: The union of serenity and insight
- Chapters 1-10: Review
- Chapters 1-3: Review
- Chapters 11 & 12: Four immeasurables and bodhicitta
- Chapters 4-5: Review
- Commentary on the Heart Sutra
- Comparison of God and Buddha
- Confusion within tantra
- Contemplating causality
- Contemplating impermanence
- Contemplating the value of our precious human rebirth
- Creating our experience
- Creating the causes for a precious human life
- Cultivating faith in the Three Jewels
- Dependent arising in the Pali tradition
- Disentangling our identities
- Disintegratedness of actions and rebirth
- Dispositions, motivations, and practices
- Do I really want to change?
- Ego, A Tibetan Buddhist perspective
- Ethics and right livelihood
- Examining our obstacles
- Exploring karma
- Faith based on reason and conviction
- Finding happiness through wisdom
- Finding our spiritual guide
- Four noble truths: An overview
- Guidelines for the practice of refuge
- How Buddhism differs from psychology
- How rebirth works
- How to relate to a spiritual teacher
- How to rely on a spiritual teacher
- How to tell if a Buddhist teacher has the right qualities
- I, me, myself and mine
- Impermanence, dukkha and selflessness
- Inquiry and faith
- Integrating a good motivation into our practice and daily lives
- Karma and compassion: Part 1 of 2
- Karma and compassion: Part 2 of 2
- Karma and your life
- Karma and your life: Questions and answers, part 1
- Karma and your life: Questions and answers, part 2
- Karma and your life: Questions and answers, part 3
- Karma and your life: Taking refuge and precepts
- Karma and your life: The four characteristics of karma
- Karma and your life: The results of karma
- Letting go of the eight worldly concerns
- Life without sila is like a car without brakes
- Long refuge and precepts ceremony
- Looking for the heart
- Making room for the Dharma—the eight worldly concerns
- Many traditions, one teacher
- Mind and rebirth
- Mind, rebirth, and liberation
- Miscarriages and karma
- Monk chat: Questions about how to practice
- Mutual appreciation between traditions
- One Teacher Many Traditions with Institut Vajra Yogini
- Online teaching resources
- Our precious human life
- Overcoming obstacles to Dharma practice
- Overcoming the eight worldly concerns
- Pali tradition and noble path
- Practical guidelines for good living
- Practicing in harmony
- Practicing the Dharma, transforming the mind
- Practicing the four immeasurables
- Purifying for refuge practice
- Q&A with Clear Mountain Monastery
- Qualities of teacher and student
- Qualities of the student
- Realizing our potential
- Rebirth and impermanence
- Rebirth and karma
- Rebirth and karma
- Rebirth, karma and emptiness
- Rebirth, karma, and emptiness
- Rebirth: A difficult point for Westerners
- Rebirth: Is it really possible?
- Reflecting on death and impermanence
- Reformatting the hard disk of the mind
- Refuge
- Refuge and bodhicitta
- Refuge and precept discussion questions
- Refuge and precepts ceremony
- Refuge causes and objects
- Refuge groups
- Refuge: Meaning and commitments
- Rejuvenate your life
- Relating to a spiritual teacher
- Reliance on a spiritual teacher
- Relying on a spiritual guide
- Relying on a spiritual teacher
- Relying on the teacher
- Remembering the kindness of the guru with Ven. Chodron
- Remembering the kindness of the guru with Ven. Khadro
- Samsara or cyclic existence
- Saying goodbye to our spiritual teachers
- Seeing ourselves as we really are
- Seeking a qualified spiritual teacher to guide us
- Self-centered Attitude
- Setting your motivation
- Similarities among Buddhist traditions
- Sixteen attributes of the four noble truths
- Some questions on rebirth
- Spiritual growth in daily life
- Streams of merit
- Sutra in response to a query over what happens after death: a review
- Taking refuge
- Taking refuge and the five precepts
- Taking refuge and the meaning of the Three Jewels
- Taking refuge: From “Open Heart, Clear Mind”
- Ten Percent Happier interview: What’s your motivation?
- The benefits of change
- The benefits of having a teacher
- The broad framework of the path
- The Buddha’s life and teachings
- The Buddhist worldview
- The concept of refuge
- The disadvantages of the eight worldly concerns
- The eight worldly concerns
- The essence of a meaningful life
- The Fifth Precept: Diet for a Mindful Society
- The First Precept: Reverence for Life
- The five main topics studied in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries
- The Five Wonderful Precepts: Introduction
- The four attributes of true of dukkha
- The four attributes of true of origins of dukkha
- The four distortions: No ability to bring lasting happiness
- The four distortions: Seeing what is impermanent as permanent
- The four distortions: Subtle impermanence
- The four distortions: Who do you think you are?
- The four immeasurables in the Pali and Sanskrit traditions
- The four noble truths
- The four noble truths
- The four noble truths
- The four seals of Buddhism
- The four thoughts that turn the mind
- The Fourth Precept: Deep Listening and Loving Speech
- The healing power of the precepts
- The importance of reflecting on a precious human life
- The intention to lie
- The light of liberation: True satisfaction and fulfillment
- The noble eightfold path and the four-way test
- The power of a kind motivation
- The power of aspiration
- The Second Precept: Generosity
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Consideration for self and others
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Cultivating wisdom
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Ethical conduct
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Faith
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Generosity of protection and of the Dharma
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Learning
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Learning in Tibetan Monasteries
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Material generosity
- The seven jewels of the aryas: Personal integrity
- The ten innermost jewels of the Kadampas
- The Third Precept: Sexual Responsibility
- The three characteristics
- The three characteristics
- The three higher trainings
- The three higher trainings and the eight fold path
- The Three Jewels as ideals
- The truth of dukkha
- The value and purpose of a precious human life
- Third and fourth noble truths
- Three higher trainings
- Three kinds of peace
- Three thoughts to generate on waking up
- Understanding Buddhist traditions
- Understanding karma
- Understanding our situation
- Understanding refuge
- Understanding the mind
- Unlocking your potential
- Verse 94: Those with right livelihood
- What did I do to deserve this?
- What it means to see the guru as the Buddha
- When things fall apart it’s time to practice
- Why am I giving?
- Why do things happen?
- Why is the Vinaya important if things are empty?
- Why things happen the way they do
- Why we need a teacher
- Working for sentient beings
- Working with karma
By Incarcerated People
- “Impact of Crime on Victims” class
- A bird
- A chosen life
- A close call
- A family of mice
- A fight on the yard
- A final farewell
- A friend in prison
- A glimpse into the ultimate
- A long-awaited vacation
- A new place
- A path of understanding
- A quilt of compassion
- A simple act of kindness
- A suicide
- A test of my bodhisattva vows
- A thought …
- Adapting to changes
- Addiction
- Adjusting to change
- After release: A woman’s perspective
- All I daydream about is here right now
- An almost riot
- An appeal to Linda
- An eye-opener
- An orange of mindfulness
- Appreciating the Dharma
- Awareness that sets you free
- Beauty and the bugs
- Becoming humble
- Being emptiness
- Being present
- Beliefs turned on their head
- Better than a hell realm
- Big piece
- Bodhisattva vows
- Bringing Avalokiteshvara into the circle
- Buddha’s door
- Celebration of Buddha’s enlightenment
- Changing
- Changing our mind
- Choice
- Choice and changing
- Choices and consequences
- Choosing friends
- Circus
- Courage
- Creating an identity
- Creating problems
- Crossing to the other shore
- Cuddling up to the Dharma
- Cultivating altruistic intention
- Daishin, big mind
- Dealing with anger
- Dealing with difficult changes
- Dealing with the guards
- Dear Mom
- Deeply committed to freedom
- Depression and Buddha nature
- Deserving love
- Developing bodhicitta
- Discovery
- Doing retreat in prison
- Doing Vajrasattva retreat
- Don’t weep
- Eating blame
- Explore and be brave
- Facing fear and stress in prison
- Fear and hate
- Flow
- Forgiving and apologizing
- Friendship
- Gathas for daily life
- Generosity: The first paramita
- Getting along with others
- Getting back on track
- Gibberish
- Glad to be here
- Grape or no grape?
- Gratitude
- Gratitude for the Dharma
- Grouchy me
- Growing pains
- Growing through the Dharma
- Haiku
- Handling fear and potential violence
- Happy birthday, Mom
- Having compassion for yourself
- Healing past relationships
- Hermitage
- How spirituality changed my life
- Humor
- I am a Buddhist
- I would normally have been upset
- If here, why not out there?
- Ignorance of the ego
- Inside-out practice
- Inspirations for overcoming anger
- Inspiring story
- Intoxicants
- It could be worse
- Jewels of the Dharma
- Joshua
- Joys of taking the bodhisattva vows
- Just breathe
- Karma and change
- Keeping balance
- Kindness to myself
- Kitchen Dharma
- Kwan Yin
- Leading ourselves out of addiction
- Learning from others
- Learning to find inner peace
- Let the mind see the mind
- Letting go of attachments
- Letting go of guilt and shame
- Life in the hole
- Loneliness
- Love
- Love, compassion, peace
- Making mistakes
- Making the teachings personal
- Masks
- Meditation with noise
- Meeting Tara
- Mindfulness, contentment, and ABBA
- Moving from the heart
- Musings at a red light
- My prison education
- My tiger
- New perspective
- No more labels
- No more whining
- Noble silence
- Not feeding the fire
- Offering service
- On attachment
- Opening up to love
- Our circle of suffering
- Owl
- Owning up, but with hope
- Patience with the path
- Paying attention to life
- People serving time
- Personal demons
- Pink flamingos
- Poem to Mom and Dad
- Positive thinking
- Power to hope, power to heal
- Practice and our mind
- Practicing in prison
- Practicing in prison
- Practising and upholding the precepts
- Prison and prayer
- Prison labor
- Prison of desire
- Prison poetry I
- Prison poetry II
- Prison poetry III
- Prison poetry IV
- Prison, life, impermanence
- Purification
- Purifying negative karma
- Qualifications
- Reentry
- Reflection on life
- Reflections on “At Hell’s Gate”
- Reflections on anger
- Reflections on my good fortune
- Release from prison: Shock or growth?
- Remaining calm
- Reunion
- Riding the roller coaster
- Right effort, learning, and love
- Saved by the Dharma
- Scars and catharsis
- Searching for happiness
- Seeing Buddha nature
- Seeking peace
- Selflessness keeps you out of SHU
- Shame
- Sharing
- Sharing positive energy
- Showing up for yourself
- Sitting with difficulty
- Squeezing George Washington so tight he cries
- Sravasti Grove
- Stateville
- Sticking to my principles
- Street kids
- Stress
- Strong attachment to desire
- Suicide watch
- Supporting a loved one in prison
- Surviving in the system
- Taking the bodhisattva vows
- Talking to the person I used to be
- Tears of compassion
- Thanks for the Dharma Dispatch
- The allure of drugs
- The beauty of creating the causes
- The choices we make
- The coffee pot: A test of my tolerance
- The cure
- The day has finally arrived
- The de facto clause
- The deer
- The extinguishing of fires
- The garden notices the rocks moving
- The hills we climb
- The internal tiger: anger and fear
- The jerk and the potato chips
- The journey
- The liberation of self-forgiveness
- The lone Buddhist
- The middle way
- The most stable people in prison
- The mule
- The pajama room
- The path and the garden
- The peace and beauty of the night’s darkness
- The power of precepts
- The precept of nonviolence
- The prison way of life
- The reality of adversity
- The Ronco label maker
- The sangha in us all
- The secret to happiness
- The spark
- Them
- Think about it
- Thoughts
- Time, inspiration, and gratitude
- Transfer
- Transforming adversity into bodhicitta
- Transforming grief into gratitude and love
- Transforming the three times
- Trauma and recovery
- Treasure the present
- Truth
- Try again
- Turning my life around
- Unforgettable memories
- Upon life’s journey
- Valuable lesson learned
- Vanquishing depression and anxiety
- Views on reforming the prison system
- Watering seeds
- Wayward
- We are human beings
- What brings happiness
- What the Buddha taught
- Whisper
- Who understands me but me
- Who’s poisoning me?
- Wholesome or unwholesome seeds
- Why not me?
- Why should I fight?
- Why?
- Wisdom from Great Aunt Ga-ga
- Without a vodka bottle in my hand
- Working with People in Prison
- Worldly views
Chants from the Chinese Tradition
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2006
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2007
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2008
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2009
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2010
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2011
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2012
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2013
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2014
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2018
Chenrezig Winter Retreat 2006-07
Concentration
- Attachment and serenity
- Balance in body, speech, and mind
- Benefits of ethical conduct
- Calming the mind
- Concentration and the six perfections
- Concentration as a Buddhist practice
- Concentration in Buddhist practice
- Concentration meditation on the Buddha
- Concentration: Worldview, technique, result
- Conditions conducive for developing concentration
- Conditions for serenity retreat
- Criteria for developing serenity
- Cultivating serenity
- Cultivating serenity in daily life
- Desire and happiness
- Discourse on “The Removal of Distracting Thoughts”
- Doubt
- Getting unstuck from attachment and anger
- Guided meditation on the Buddha
- Hindrances and antidotes
- Hindrances to concentration
- Hindrances to serenity
- Interdependence and equanimity
- Introduction to breathing meditation
- Learning from death
- Lethargy, sleepiness, restlessness, remorse
- Making offerings
- Malice and lethargy
- Meditation and hindrances
- Mental factors and states of consciousness
- Mindfulness and introspective awareness
- Mindfulness and sensual desire
- Motivation and meditation
- Overcoming hindrances to concentration
- Overcoming ill will
- Practices before serenity meditation
- Qualities of concentration
- Restlessness, regret, and doubt
- Sensual desire and malice
- Six conditions for retreat
- Six conditions, five faults, eight antidotes
- Stages of sustained attention
- Structuring the meditation session
- The benefits of and conditions for developing serenity
- The context for developing concentration
- The five faults and eight antidotes
- The five faults and eight antidotes
- The hindrances: Desire and malice
- The hindrances: Doubt
- The hindrances: Dullness and restlessness
- The nine mental abidings
- The prerequisites for concentration
- The removal of distracting thoughts
- Ultimate goal of developing concentration
- Working with the five hindrances
Contentment and Happiness
Cultivating Compassion
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Foreword by the Dalai Lama
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Introduction
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Living with authenticity
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Preface by Professor Paul Gilbert
- “Living with an Open Heart” book launch
- “Living with an Open Heart”: An introduction
- “Living with an Open Heart”: The vastness of compassion
- A different kind of strength
- A Healthy Diet for the Mind
- A heart of compassion
- Accepting ourselves
- Advice on living with an open heart
- An open-hearted life: The meaning of compassion
- Apologizing and forgiving
- Becoming friends with ourselves
- Becoming friends with ourselves
- Becoming our own best friend
- Being responsible for our emotions
- Benefits of compassion
- Beyond Blame
- Bringing compassion into every moment
- Building courage and compassion
- Caring for ourselves and others
- Clarifying misconceptions about compassion
- Comparing the Buddhist and scientific views of emotions
- Compassion and empathy
- Compassion and empathy review
- Compassion and ethical living
- Compassion and interdependence
- Compassion and interdependence
- Compassion and personal distress
- Compassion as an antidote to depression
- Compassion as an antidote to low-self esteem
- Compassion as the antidote to the critical, judgmental mind
- Compassion for a happier mind for Turkey
- Compassion gone awry
- Compassion in action: a life of service
- Compassion manifesting in skillful means
- Compassion, empathy, and attachment
- Compassion, uncertainty, and listening to uncomfortable truths
- Compassion: What it is, what it isn’t
- Compassionate communication
- Compassionate thinking and mentalizing
- Compassionate understanding of emotions
- Composed compassion
- Confusion about compassion
- Connecting with compassion
- Connecting with others with an open heart
- Considering perceived threats and needs
- Cooperation and attachment styles
- Courageous compassion
- Courageous Compassion
- Courageous compassion
- Cultivating compassion and equanimity
- Cultivating compassion and letting go of anger
- Cultivating compassion for ourselves and others
- Cultivating happiness and contentment
- Cultivating love and kindness
- Cultivation of Compassion
- Curing our self-centeredness
- Dependent arising and compassion, continued
- Developing compassion
- Developing compassion
- Developing equanimity
- Discussion on compassion with Q&A
- Embracing common humanity
- Empathic distress
- Empathy and humor
- Equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Equanimity in daily life
- Establishing compassionate habits
- Examining our expectations of others
- Exchanging self and others and taking and giving
- Fear of compassion
- Finding the best in other people
- Friends who give bad advice
- Genuine compassion
- Giving positive feedback and praise
- Guided meditation on compassion
- Healing the mind
- Healing with love and compassion
- Helping each other feel safe
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama and compassion
- Homage to great compassion
- How compassion changes us
- How our emotions impact our mind
- Identifying our feelings
- Imagery and method acting: Cultivating our compassionate selves
- Introduction to the taking and giving meditation
- Kindness of mothers (all beings)
- Kuan Yin and compassion
- Leading an open-hearted life
- Learning, Living, and Teaching Bodhicitta
- Living an open-hearted life
- Love and compassion
- Loving kindness and compassion in daily life
- Meditating on equanimity
- Meditating on taking and giving
- Mindful awareness
- Misconceptions about compassion
- Moving toward compassion
- Obstacles to compassion
- Our capacity for kindness
- Overcoming the obstacles to developing compassion
- Reaching out with compassion
- Removing partiality
- Rules of the universe and the benefits of cherishing others
- Self-compassion
- Self-compassion
- Setting our motivation
- Slow things down and give them some space
- Small acts of compassion can have big results
- Spreading compassion
- Strength, joy, and compassion
- The disadvantages of self-centeredness
- The four immeasurables
- The happiness of an open-hearted life
- The importance of consistency
- The importance of empathic listening
- The importance of regular practice
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others
- The power of compassion in a chaotic world
- The power of compassion, part 1
- The power of compassion, part 2
- The power of compassion, part 3
- The power of compassion, part 4
- The power of optimism and types of emotion
- The seven-point instruction of cause and effect
- The way of compassion
- Three types of emotion and their influence
- Transforming the mind with compassion
- Twelve ways to apply compassion in society
- When compassion arises
- Why we need compassion
- Wisdom and compassion
- Working with compassion
- Working with Conflict and Making Requests
- Working with judgement and partiality
- Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2010
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2011
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2012
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2013
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2015
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2016
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2017
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2018
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2019
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2020
Cultivating Healthy Relationships
Cultivating the Four Immeasurables
Deity Meditation
- “Bodhisattvas’ Confession of Ethical Downfalls”
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 1-28 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 1-5
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 12-15
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 15-19
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 20-26
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 27-28
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 29-34
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 35-42
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 43-47
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 6-11
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 1-8 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 9-18 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verse 40 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 19-24 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 25-33 review
- “Letter to a Friend”: Verses 34-39 review
- 1000-armed Chenrezig deity sadhana with guided meditation
- 1000-armed Chenrezig meditation
- 108 Verses: A bucket in a well
- 108 Verses: Verse 47 and dependence on others
- 108 Verses: Verse 7
- 108 Verses: Verse 7
- 108 Verses: Verse 8
- 108 Verses: Verse 9
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-14
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-3
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-6
- 108 Verses: Verses 1-6
- 108 Verses: Verses 10-12
- 108 Verses: Verses 100-108
- 108 Verses: Verses 13-14
- 108 Verses: Verses 15-17
- 108 Verses: Verses 15-19
- 108 Verses: Verses 17-21
- 108 Verses: Verses 20-26
- 108 Verses: Verses 27-34
- 108 Verses: Verses 35-41
- 108 Verses: Verses 43-46
- 108 Verses: Verses 48-52
- 108 Verses: Verses 52-53
- 108 Verses: Verses 54-56
- 108 Verses: Verses 57-62
- 108 Verses: Verses 63-70
- 108 Verses: Verses 7-9
- 108 Verses: Verses 71-76
- 108 Verses: Verses 76-77
- 108 Verses: Verses 78-81
- 108 Verses: Verses 8-9
- 108 Verses: Verses 84-99
- 37 Practices: Verses 1-3
- 37 Practices: Verses 10-15
- 37 Practices: Verses 16-21
- 37 Practices: Verses 22-24
- 37 Practices: Verses 25-28
- 37 Practices: Verses 29-37
- 37 Practices: Verses 4-6
- 37 Practices: Verses 7-9
- A bodhisattva’s generosity
- A content and disciplined retreat mind
- A discussion about anger
- A lamentation requesting blessings from the Great Compassionate One
- A personal study of grief and some antidotes
- A reliable guide
- A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible
- A vast perspective
- A weekend with Tara
- Activities of wrath
- Afflicted views
- Afflictions and antidotes
- All about White Tara
- Alternative ways to deal with afflictions
- Amitabha Buddha deity sadhana with guided meditation
- Amitabha practice across traditions
- Amitabha practice: Aspiration prayer
- Amitabha practice: Aspirational prayer
- Amitabha practice: Chanting and visualization
- Amitabha practice: Dedication verses
- Amitabha practice: Fear at time of death
- Amitabha practice: Mantra recitation
- Amitabha practice: Mantra recitation and visualization
- Amitabha practice: Offering the mandala
- Amitabha practice: Practice while we are alive
- Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death
- Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death, part 1
- Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death, part 2
- Amitabha practice: Pure land rebirth
- Amitabha practice: Refuge and bodhicitta
- Amitabha practice: Refuge visualization
- Amitabha practice: Requesting inspiration
- Amitabha practice: The four immeasurables
- Answering questions from retreatants
- Apologies and forgiveness
- Applying antidotes to the afflictions
- Applying the teachings
- Appreciating the time for analysis
- Arya Tara: A star by which to navigate
- Assembly of the Immeasurable Life Tathāgata
- Attachment to ideas
- Attachment to personal identity
- Attachment to reputation
- Awareness of emptiness
- Bad moods and self-criticism
- Base of pure ethics
- Basic goodness
- Becoming Vajrasattva
- Beginning love with ourselves
- Being a friend to yourself
- Being dispassionate toward perception
- Being realistic and compassionate
- Believing what others believe about us
- Benefits of forgiveness
- Benefits of reciting verses
- Benefits of the retreat from afar
- Bodhicitta
- Bodhicitta as the result
- Bodhicitta motivation
- Bodhisattva practices
- Bowing and making offerings to Amitabha
- Branches of increasing merit
- Buddha nature
- Buddha nature and omniscient mind
- Buddhas and deities
- Buddhist and psychological views on grief
- Buddhist day of miracles
- Caring for our grief
- Caring mind towards everyone
- Causal dependence and karma
- Causes for pure land rebirth
- Chenrezig front-generation practice
- Chenrezig mantra and absorption
- Chenrezig retreat 2012 introduction
- Chenrezig retreat discussion: Part 1
- Chenrezig retreat discussion: Part 2
- Chenrezig sadhana
- Chenrezig sadhana glance meditation
- Clairvoyant powers
- Clarifying the practice
- Climate grief and resilience
- Collective karma and negativities to confess
- Coming out of our shell
- Commentary on a request to Tara
- Communicating with a Dharma friend who has dementia
- Compassion from Tara
- Compassion observing phenomena
- Compassion observing sentient beings
- Compassion observing the unapprehendable
- Compassion seeing emptiness
- Conditioned fear
- Confessing ethical downfalls
- Confession of negativities
- Confidence in purification
- Connecting with Amitabha Buddha
- Connecting with compassion
- Contemplating causality
- Contemplating the Medicine Buddha vows
- Conventional and ultimate existence
- Conventional and ultimate truth
- Create karma, accumulate merit, apply antidote
- Creating identities
- Creating the causes for rebirth in Amitabha’s pure land
- Cultivating a bodhicitta motivation
- Cultivating Amitabha’s attitude
- Cultivating bodhicitta
- Cultivating contentment
- Cultivating love on Valentine’s Day
- Cultivating respect for karma
- Cultivating satisfaction
- Cultivating wisdom
- Cutting through the mundane mind
- Dealing with afflictions and illness
- Dealing with difficult people
- Dealing with spirits and sickness
- Dealing with the craving for excitement
- Debrief after retreat
- Dedicating for awakening
- Dedication and karma
- Dedication and rejoicing
- Dedication and self-acceptance
- Dedication as generosity
- Deity practice
- Deity yoga: You are Tara
- Deluded thinking and labeling
- Denial of death
- Dependent arising in the sadhana
- Dependent arising: Causal dependence
- Dependent arising: Dependence on parts
- Dependent arising: Dependent designation
- Designating labels: Rinpoches and lamas
- Determining to benefit others
- Developing a relationship with Vajrasattva
- Developing an attraction to Chenrezig
- Developing equanimity
- Developing love and compassion
- Developing self-acceptance
- Developing the seven wisdoms of Manjushri
- Dharma advice
- Dharma and ordinary world view
- Dharma protector practices
- Discriminating wisdom
- Discussion on kindness of others
- Dismantling personal identity
- Dismantling preconceptions
- Distractions, the mind, and compassion
- Distrust of false appearances
- Doubt
- Dropping our garbage
- Dullness and drowsiness
- Eight verses of thought transformation
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 1-3
- Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 4-5
- Embodying the qualities of Tara
- Emotions, refuge, and emptiness
- Emptiness
- Emptiness and conceptual designation
- Emptiness and non-duality
- Emptiness and worldly appearances
- Emptiness as the nature of phenomena
- Emptiness feels so solid
- Emptiness, karma, and the stages of grief
- End of retreat Q&A
- Enlightened speech
- Ensuring our connection with the teachings and teacher
- Entering Manjushri retreat
- Equalizing self and others
- Equanimity and Chenrezig
- Equanimity and loving kindness
- Essence of Refined Gold
- Ethical behavior and happiness
- Ethical conduct in the workplace
- Exchanging self and others
- Excitement and laxity; not applying and over-applying the antidote
- Explanation of the Manjushri sadhana
- Explanation of the Medicine Buddha practice
- Explanation of the Vajrasattva sadhana
- Facing fears
- Fear and wisdom fear
- Fearlessness and refuge
- Feeling bad helps our practice
- Feelings and the yo-yo mind
- Finding inspiration in the qualities of Medicine Buddha
- Finding refuge in Vajrasattva
- Food offering: Labeling on a valid basis
- Forgetting the object of meditation
- Fortitude and joyous effort
- Foundation for bodhicitta
- Four immeasurables and seven-limb prayer
- Four keys to wellbeing
- Four types of nirvana
- Freedom through imagination
- Generating bodhicitta
- Generating regret
- Giving up clinging to this life
- Giving up our poor-quality view
- Giving up self-centeredness
- Grasping at inherent existence
- Gratitude to retreatants from afar
- Gratitude towards parents
- Great compassion and nondual awareness
- Green Tara sadhana (short)
- Green Tara sadhana with the Eight Dangers
- Guided meditation on cyclic existence
- Guided meditation on Tara
- Guided meditation on the Medicine Buddha
- Guided meditation on Vajrasattva
- Guided meditation on Verse 7
- Guilt, shame, and forgiveness
- Happiness and pleasures
- Happiness of others around us
- Healing anger with Tara
- Hearing, thinking, meditating
- Holding a retreat mind
- Homage to Manjushri
- Homage to Manjushri, the Buddha of wisdom
- Homage to the 21 Taras
- How anger functions
- How are we different from turkeys?
- How arrogance plays out in our lives
- How do I know that I have purified?
- How do living beings exist?
- How karma works
- How purification works
- How renunciation brings happiness
- How samsara evolves
- How Tantra fits into the path
- How things exist
- How to approach retreat
- How to deal with afflictions
- How to free your mind: The Tara sadhana and counteracting the eight dangers
- How to keep meditation interesting
- How to make the most of Retreat from Afar
- How to practice between sessions
- How to practice well
- How to recite mantra
- How to relate to the deity
- How to see Tara
- How to study, reflect, and meditate
- How we create negative karma
- Ignorance, anger, purification
- Ill will
- Immeasurable compassion
- Immeasurable equanimity
- Immeasurable joy and equanimity
- Immeasurable love
- Importance of the Buddhist worldview
- Inability to settle on a path
- Independent and dependent existence
- Inherent views and opinions
- Initial experiences of retreatants
- Initiations and empowerments
- Inspiration and long life from Tara
- Introducing the text and author
- Introduction and Chenrezig sadhana
- Introduction to 2011 Chenrezig retreat
- Introduction to Chenrezig
- Introduction to Chenrezig practice
- Introduction to Chenrezig practice
- Introduction to Chenrezig Practice
- Introduction to Chenrezig practice
- Introduction to Manjushri practice
- Introduction to Medicine Buddha practice
- Introduction to Nyung Ne
- Introduction to tantra
- Introduction to the Amitabha practice
- Introduction to the practice
- Introduction to Vajrasattva retreat
- Introduction to vajrayana
- Investigating blame
- Investigating happiness
- Jealousy: Its definition and antidotes
- Just go free-form
- Karma with holy beings and teachers
- Karma with teachers and parents
- Karma, formative action, and volitional factors
- Keep on going
- Keeping calm when facing harm
- Labeling thoughts and emotions
- Lama Tsongkhapa’s kindness
- Lamrim meditation and the sadhana
- Lamrim meditation in Tara sadhana
- Laziness and its antidotes
- Learning to let go during purification
- Letting go of identities
- Letting go of self
- Life after retreat
- Life force and the four elements
- Life support or not?
- Light and nectar flowing from Tara
- Living within the five precepts
- Lojong antidotes to grief
- Long Green Tara sadhana with guided meditation
- Looking for the “I”
- Loosening our identities
- Love, compassion, and bodhicitta
- Making decisions
- Making friends with ourselves
- Making friends with ourselves
- Making grief meaningful
- Making life meaningful
- Manjushri and the three vehicles
- Manjushri deity sadhana with guided meditation
- Manjushri meditation on emptiness
- Manjushri sadhana overview
- Mantras and symbols
- Medicine Buddha and the 35 Buddhas
- Medicine Buddha deity sadhana with guided meditation
- Medicine Buddha guided sadhana
- Medicine Buddha healing visualizations
- Medicine Buddha practice for the deceased
- Medicine Buddha practice: Mandala offering and request prayers
- Medicine Buddha practice: The seven limb prayer
- Medicine Buddha retreat: Questions and answers
- Medicine Buddha sadhana explained
- Medicine Buddha vow 4
- Medicine Buddha vow 8
- Medicine Buddha vows 1-3
- Medicine Buddha vows 5-7
- Medicine Buddha vows 9-12
- Medicine Buddha’s unshakeable resolves
- Medicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves 1-6
- Medicine Buddha’s unshakable resolves 7-12
- Meditating on compassion
- Meditating on impermanence
- Meditating on three types of compassion
- Meditation auf Buddha Amitabha
- Meditation on Arya Tara
- Meditation on emptiness
- Meditation on the Buddha
- Meditation on the Buddha in Spanish
- Meditation on the clear appearance of Manjushri
- Meeting Manjushri
- Meeting Vajrasattva
- Methods to cultivate compassion
- Methods to develop kindness
- Mid-retreat discussion
- Miserliness, attachment and doubt
- More psychology of the Tara sadhana
- More thoughts on ethical conduct in the workplace
- Motivation and karma
- Motivation and our dignity
- Motivation for Chenrezig retreat
- Motivation for the Manjushri retreat
- Motivation for the retreat
- Motivation for the retreat
- Mutual dependence
- Mutual dependence in generosity
- Negating inherent existence
- Objects of refuge
- Obstacles to generosity
- Offering the universe
- Oh Tara, protect us
- On vacation with Vajrasattva
- Once you start, never stop
- Our motivation for practice
- Our real enemy
- Our two-year-old mind
- Overcoming self-centeredness
- Overcoming three kinds of doubt
- Overview of the Amitabha Buddha sadhana
- Overview of the Buddhist path
- Pacifying the demon of doubt
- Panic fear, wisdom fear, and the adrenaline rush
- Parting from the four clingings
- Path of purification: Daily practice
- Path of purification: Vajrasattva practice
- Peeling away the view of permanence
- Physical prison versus samsaric prison
- Power of regret: Identifying the causes
- Power of regret: Understanding karma
- Power of remedial action: Methods
- Power of remedial action: The antidote
- Power of resolve: Abandoning non-virtue
- Power of resolve: Becoming Vajrasattva
- Power of resolve: Rooted in regret
- Practicing fortitude in daily life
- Practicing in a group retreat
- Practicing the Dharma
- Praise and criticism
- Praising bodhicitta
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 1-5
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 14-21
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 22-31
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 5-8
- Prayer to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land: verses 9-13
- Prayer to be Reborn in the Land of Bliss
- Precepts and distorted views
- Preciousness of the opportunity for retreat
- Preparing for tantra
- Preparing for Vajrasattva retreat
- Preparing the mind for practice
- Protected and Remembered by All Buddhas: The Buddha Speaks of Amitābha Sūtra
- Psychology of the Tara sadhana
- Purification and emptiness
- Purification and merit
- Purification and non-negotiables
- Purification and visualization
- Purification, karma, and ethical conduct
- Purifying harsh speech and idle talk
- Purifying heavy karma
- Purifying lying and divisive speech
- Purifying non-virtue: Coveting
- Purifying non-virtue: Karmic results
- Purifying non-virtue: Killing and stealing
- Purifying non-virtue: Malice
- Purifying non-virtue: Wrong views
- Purifying non-virtues of mind
- Purifying through Vajrasattva
- Purpose of practice
- Purpose of request to Chenrezig
- Purpose of the visualization
- Purpose of thought training
- Qualities of the three jewels
- Questioning our perceptions
- Questions about initiation and meditation
- Questions on Vajrasattva purification
- Reasonable self-evaluation
- Receiving an initiation
- Receiving praise: The bodhisattva vows
- Reducing arrogance, cultivating humility
- Reflecting on dukkha to fuel renunciation
- Refuge and the five lay precepts
- Refuge, bodhicitta, the four noble truths
- Rejoicing and dedicating
- Rejoicing at conclusion of retreat
- Rejoicing in retreat
- Rejoicing in the happiness of others
- Rejoicing in the Tara retreat
- Relating to and visualizing compassion
- Relating to the Buddha of wisdom
- Remembering to take the medicine
- Renouncing dukkha
- Resistance to meditation on emptiness
- Responding to pleasant feelings
- Restlessness and regret
- Results of anger
- Retreat discussion
- Retreat motivation
- Retreat questions and advice
- Retreat questions and discussion
- Reviewing behavior patterns
- Right intention in starting retreat
- Sadhana visualization
- Seasons change
- Seeing through fears
- Self-centeredness and compassion
- Self-generation and emptiness
- Selflessness of mind and phenomena
- Sensual desires
- Seven-limb prayer and mandala offering
- Shantideva on equalizing self and others
- Sharing challenges of practice
- Speaking about silence
- Special attributes of the Three Jewels
- Spiritual washing machine
- Staving off the flood
- Stories about Lama Yeshe
- Stressed out
- Subtle mind and wind in tantra
- Symbolism and visualization
- Taking refuge
- Taking refuge from the heart
- Taking retreat into daily life
- Taking the practice home
- Tantra initiations, empowerment
- Tantra practices
- Tantric initiation question
- Tara as resultant refuge
- Tara is not inherently existent
- Tara’s qualities
- Tara’s wisdom
- Teachings on the Chenrezig practice
- The 100-syllable mantra
- The antidotes to fear
- The benefits of cherishing others
- The benefits of refuge and precepts
- The Buddha is free from fear
- The Buddha Refuge Jewel
- The Buddha’s five recollections
- The carnivorous demon of doubt
- The chain of miserliness
- The Chenrezig practice
- The conventional existence of Tara
- The courage to be happy
- The dangers of absolutism and nihilism
- The dukkha of pain and change
- The dukkha of pervasive conditioning
- The eight dangers
- The elephant of ignorance
- The emptiness of identities and nonvirtue
- The empty nature of grief
- The far-reaching attitude of equanimity
- The fire of anger
- The Five Dhyani Buddhas
- The flood of attachment
- The food offering
- The four immeasurables
- The four immeasurables in daily life
- The four maras
- The four opponent powers
- The four opponent powers
- The four opponent powers for purification
- The four opponent powers in daily life
- The four opponent powers: Part 1
- The four opponent powers: Part 2
- The four purities and four classes of tantra
- The general characteristics of karma
- The Green Tara practice
- The lion of pride
- The mantra and purifying karma
- The mark of a successful life
- The meaning of compassion
- The meaning of karma
- The meaning of the Tara mantras
- The Medicine Buddha request prayers
- The Medicine Buddha sadhana
- The Medicine Buddha’s unshakeable resolves, continued
- The mind and body in meditation
- The motivation for doing retreat
- The perfection of wisdom
- The pitfalls of perfectionism
- The power of determination
- The power of determination
- The power of Nyung Ne with questions and answers
- The power of regret
- The power of regret: Our motivations
- The power of rejoicing
- The power of reliance
- The power of reliance: Bodhicitta
- The power of reliance: Refuge
- The power of remedial action
- The power of restoring the relationship
- The practice of confession
- The psychological mechanism of making request prayers
- The purpose of a silent retreat
- The purpose of dedicating merit
- The purpose of the Manjushri practice
- The rarity of retreat
- The robbers of wrong views
- The root causes of grief
- The selflessness of feelings
- The selflessness of persons
- The seven-limb prayer
- The snake of jealousy
- The story of Kwan Yin
- The symbolism of Medicine Buddha
- The Tara practice
- The ten non-virtuous actions
- The ten nonvirtues
- The thieves of wrong views
- The thieves of wrong views
- The two truths
- The wisdom of composition
- Things exist dependently
- Thinking about emptiness
- Three kinds of compassion
- Three kinds of dukkha and causes
- Three types of dukkha
- Tobacco, firearms and food
- Transforming unpleasant feelings
- Transition to daily life following retreat
- Types of arrogance and ignorance
- Understanding Buddhist concepts
- Unique elements of Vajrayana
- Unique features of tantra
- Unique features to tantra
- Unloading the garbage mind
- Unrealistic fear
- Untainted meditation
- Untimely death
- Using wisdom to guide our lives
- Vajrasattva guided meditation
- Vajrasattva meditation and recitation
- Vajrasattva practice and the four opponent powers
- Vajrasattva practice: Overview and the power of reliance
- Vajrasattva practice: The power of regret
- Vajrasattva practice: The powers of remedial action and determination
- Vajrasattva purification practice
- Vajrasattva reflections
- Vajrasattva sadhana
- Vajrayana foundation
- Varieties of attachment
- Verses of thought training
- Visualization
- Visualization and mantra recitation
- Visualization and mantra recitation
- Visualization in deity practice
- Visualization, refuge and bodhicitta
- Visualizing the Medicine Buddha
- Visualizing the object of meditation
- Visualizing Vajrasattva
- Watching the news as Dharma practice
- What are your non-negotiables?
- What emptiness is
- What is dhih?
- What is retreat?
- What is retreat?
- What is retreat?
- What is samsara and nirvana?
- What it means to do retreat
- What it means to take refuge
- What to do after retreat
- What we are giving up
- Where is attachment?
- Where is the self?
- White Tara at your heart
- White Tara deity sadhana with guided meditation
- White Tara purifying negativities
- Who Is Amitabha really?
- Who is Amitabha?
- Who is Tara?
- Who is Tara?
- Who is the “I” that is anxious?
- Who is White Tara?
- Why Buddha is a reliable refuge
- Why do we suffer?
- Wisdom, renunciation, and attachment
- Working on our attachments
- Working through cause and effect
- Working with sexual energy
- Working with the angry mind
- Working with the mind in retreat
- Working with the Tara sadhana
Dharma in Action
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Foreword by the Dalai Lama
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Introduction
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Living with authenticity
- “An Open-Hearted Life”: Preface by Professor Paul Gilbert
- “Harmonia Mundi” and “Mind-Life” conferences
- “Impact of Crime on Victims” class
- “Living with an Open Heart” book launch
- “Living with an Open Heart”: An introduction
- “Living with an Open Heart”: The vastness of compassion
- “Nuns in the West I:” Interviews
- “Samsara, Nirvana and Buddha Nature”: Anger and its antidotes
- “She Carries Me” : A song for difficult times
- 12 ways to apply compassion
- 21st-century Buddhists
- A balanced mind in an election year
- A Benedictine’s view
- A bhikshuni’s view
- A bird
- A bodhisattva’s determination
- A Buddhist approach to helping the dying
- A Buddhist marriage blessing
- A Buddhist response to religious fundamentalism
- A call for empathy
- A call for unity
- A celebration of love
- A chosen life
- A Christmas gift in prison
- A close call
- A commentary on “The Rose”
- A death row attorney on her work
- A different kind of strength
- A family of mice
- A fight on the yard
- A final farewell
- A friend in prison
- A gift: an incarcerated person lets go of anger
- A glimpse into the ultimate
- A Healthy Diet for the Mind
- A heart of compassion
- A letter from a friend
- A letter from a listener
- A letter to my teacher
- A long obedience
- A long-awaited vacation
- A man and a squirrel
- A matter of life and death
- A meaningful life
- A meditation for survivors of suicide
- A new friendship
- A new place
- A new way to see it
- A path of understanding
- A peaceful heart in a complex world
- A prayer for my mother
- A prayer for refuge to a light within
- A prayer for the world
- A prison visit
- A prison visit following the killing of an incarcerated person
- A prison visit on “Buddha Day”
- A quilt of compassion
- A real awareness of death
- A remarkable story
- A second chance for juvenile offenders
- A secret Zen master
- A simple act of kindness
- A suicide
- A tale of woe becomes a tale of kindness and refuge
- A teaching on impermanence
- A test of my bodhisattva vows
- A thought …
- A trap to be aware of
- A treasured possession
- A tribute to Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- A vacation with anger
- A wake-up call
- A warm heart in a complex world
- A-Bombs, terrorism, and karma
- Accepting ourselves
- Activism with altruism
- Adapting to changes
- Addiction
- Addressing negative emotions
- Adjusting to change
- Advice for a child with a chronic illness
- Advice for a non-Buddhist friend
- Advice for upcoming surgery
- Advice on living with an open heart
- After release: A woman’s perspective
- Aging gracefully and with gratitude
- All I daydream about is here right now
- American professor teaches physics to Tibetan nuns
- An afternoon in prison
- An almost riot
- An appeal to Linda
- An eye-opener
- An incentive to engage in virtue
- An open-hearted life: The meaning of compassion
- An optimistic mind
- An orange of mindfulness
- Analyzing the terrorist
- Anger
- Anger and the practice of patience
- Anger not nice
- Anger poisons our happiness
- Anger versus clarity
- Another take on the fifth precept
- Antidotes for the complaining mind
- Antidotes to anger
- Antidotes to anxiety
- Antidotes to the fear of separation
- Apologizing and forgiving
- Appreciating the Dharma
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Seattle
- Are Buddhists ambitious?
- Assessing our speech and motivation
- Attachment and its effects
- Attaining and balancing wealth
- Awareness that sets you free
- Baby blessing ceremony
- Be reasonable
- Be there for the right reasons
- Be your own therapist
- Beauty and the bugs
- Becoming friends with ourselves
- Becoming friends with ourselves
- Becoming humble
- Becoming our own best friend
- Being a Dharma community
- Being a friend to yourself
- Being an example of compassion
- Being an example of love
- Being an example of peace
- Being an example of wisdom
- Being emptiness
- Being human: Not seeing the world as us and them
- Being present
- Being responsible for our emotions
- Being Tashi, facing the death of a child
- Beliefs turned on their head
- Benefits of compassion
- Benefitting animals with wisdom and compassion
- Better than a hell realm
- Beyond Blame
- Big piece
- Bodhisattva practice in daily life
- Bodhisattva versus white supremacist
- Bodhisattva vows
- Bonds
- Brain training: The effects of meditation on the brain
- Bringing Avalokiteshvara into the circle
- Bringing compassion into every moment
- Bringing compassion to prison
- Bringing harmony to the workplace
- Bringing the Dharma to the Middle East
- Buddha’s door
- Buddhism and consumerism
- Buddhism and Judaism
- Buddhism and therapy
- Buddhism in modern society
- Buddhism, modernism and mindfulness
- Buddhist Advice for Ruling a Kingdom
- Buddhist ethics in the age of technology
- Buddhist perspectives on death
- Buddhist perspectives on death
- Buddhist practice and community life
- Buddhist precepts regarding food
- Buddhist religious practitioners should serve as society’s conscience
- Buddhist wisdom on violence and reconciliation
- Buddhists in conflict
- Building confidence and resilience with joy
- Building confidence to live your life to the fullest
- Building courage and compassion
- Building your inner confidence
- Can a gun really protect you?
- Caring for our only home
- Caring for ourselves and others
- Caught up in consumerism
- Causes of happiness
- Celebrating the Buddha in prison
- Celebration of Buddha’s enlightenment
- Challenges to forgiveness
- Changing
- Changing how we view ourselves and others
- Changing our mind
- Changing perspective to undermine anger
- Chanting practices for the dying
- Chocolate frosting and garbage
- Choice
- Choice and changing
- Choices and consequences
- Choosing friends
- Christ the divine physician sadhana
- Circus
- Clarifying misconceptions about compassion
- Clarity, confidence and courage
- Clean up my act
- Clear wishes for our final moments
- Combating anxiety with a meditative mind
- Comfort for the grieving
- Communication and understanding conflict styles
- Comparing and contrasting views
- Comparing the Buddhist and scientific views of emotions
- Compassion + Technology
- Compassion after September 11
- Compassion and empathy
- Compassion and empathy review
- Compassion and ethical living
- Compassion and ethics in the public discourse
- Compassion and interdependence
- Compassion and interdependence
- Compassion and kindness in the face of terrorism
- Compassion and personal distress
- Compassion and social action
- Compassion and social engagement
- Compassion and world peace
- Compassion as an antidote to depression
- Compassion as an antidote to low-self esteem
- Compassion as the antidote to the critical, judgmental mind
- Compassion at a juvenile reformatory
- Compassion for a happier mind for Turkey
- Compassion for oneself, compassion for others
- Compassion for perpetrators
- Compassion gone awry
- Compassion in action
- Compassion in action: a life of service
- Compassion in the midst of chaos
- Compassion manifesting in skillful means
- Compassion through the dying process
- Compassion, empathy, and attachment
- Compassion, uncertainty, and listening to uncomfortable truths
- Compassion: What it is, what it isn’t
- Compassionate communication
- Compassionate thinking and mentalizing
- Compassionate understanding of emotions
- Competition vs. contentment: Dialogue with Buddhist youths
- Composed compassion
- Conceptual Minds and Mind Training
- Conflict and compassion: Opening our hearts when our views differ
- Confusion about compassion
- Connecting with compassion
- Connecting with compassion
- Connecting with incarcerated women in Indonesia
- Connecting with others with an open heart
- Connecting with those we disagree with
- Connecting women scientists and Buddhist nuns
- Considering perceived threats and needs
- Consumerism and happiness
- Consumerism and the environment
- Contemplating death
- Contestable times
- Conventional and ultimate recovery
- Cooperation and attachment styles
- Coronavirus: This is the time to practice
- Counteracting anger with compassion
- Courage
- Courageous compassion
- Courageous Compassion
- Courageous compassion
- Craving for pleasures
- Creating an identity
- Creating habits for happiness
- Creating peace in one’s daily life
- Creating problems
- Creating vision as a leader: a Buddhist perspective
- Criteria of trust
- Crossing to the other shore
- Cuddling up to the Dharma
- Cultivating altruistic intention
- Cultivating better relationships
- Cultivating compassion and equanimity
- Cultivating compassion and letting go of anger
- Cultivating compassion for ourselves and others
- Cultivating compassion in a violent world
- Cultivating connection, compassion, and confidence in goodness while healing after suicide
- Cultivating contentment
- Cultivating emotional balance
- Cultivating emotional balance
- Cultivating equanimity
- Cultivating equanimity
- Cultivating equanimity in a time of violence
- Cultivating gratitude
- Cultivating happiness and contentment
- Cultivating love
- Cultivating love and compassion
- Cultivating love and kindness
- Cultivating loving-kindness
- Cultivating peace from the inside out
- Cultivating social harmony
- Cultivation of Compassion
- Curing our self-centeredness
- Cycles of optimism
- Cynicism, fear of change, responsibility
- Daily practices for time of death
- Daishin, big mind
- Dealing with anger
- Dealing with anger using mind training
- Dealing with anxiety
- Dealing with criticism
- Dealing with depression
- Dealing with difficult changes
- Dealing with disappointment
- Dealing with grief
- Dealing with grief
- Dealing with grief and loss
- Dealing with racism
- Dealing with situations when things fall apart
- Dealing with the guards
- Dealing with violent acts
- Dear Mom
- Death and peace of mind
- Death meditation
- Death under the bodhi tree
- Dedicating for the benefit of all
- Dedication for a meaningful life
- Dedication verses
- Deeply committed to freedom
- Defining love and happiness
- Defusing our hot buttons
- Dependent arising and compassion, continued
- Dependent arising: a universal principle
- Depression and Buddha nature
- Deserving love
- Determined to be free
- Developing bodhicitta
- Developing compassion
- Developing compassion
- Developing equanimity
- Developing inner peace through focus
- Developing inner peace through generosity and ethical living
- Developing inner peace through mindfulness
- Developing inner peace through transforming perspectives
- Developing our inner moral compass
- Dharma artwork by incarcerated people
- Dharma in prison: Learning more than teaching
- Dharma masala
- Dharma question and answer session
- Dialoguing with someone who sees things differently than I do
- Disadvantages of criticizing bodhisattvas
- Disappointment and delight—the eight worldly concerns
- Disarming the mind
- Disconnect to connect
- Discontent and contentment
- Discovering anger within
- Discovery
- Discussion on compassion with Q&A
- Discussion on lying with Q&A
- Disturbing emotions and the mind
- Does ethics matter in science and technology?
- Doing retreat in prison
- Doing Vajrasattva retreat
- Don’t be afraid of death
- Don’t take life for granted
- Don’t weep
- Don’t trust me to fly a plane!
- Done with the detour
- Doubting one’s capabilities
- Dying without fear and regret
- Earth and Water
- Eating blame
- Eating mindfully
- Eating with gratitude
- Embracing common humanity
- Empathic distress
- Empathy and humor
- Encouraging ethical behavior
- End-of-life care
- Equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Equanimity in daily life
- Establishing compassionate habits
- Ethical conduct and motivation
- Ethical conduct in modern times
- Ethical principles cannot be compromised
- Ethical ways to meet our needs
- Ethics and conditioning
- Ethics in daily life
- Examining anger and its antidotes
- Examining our expectations of others
- Exchanging self and others and taking and giving
- Explore and be brave
- Exploring world religions and Buddhism
- Facing difficulties with joy and equanimity
- Facing fear and stress in prison
- Facing fear of death
- Faith leaders united against gun violence
- Faith-based applications to gun violence prevention
- Falling in love with everyone
- False friends
- Fear about the world
- Fear about the world
- Fear and apathy in response to mass shootings
- Fear and hate
- Fear of being disliked
- Fear of compassion
- Fear of dying
- Fear of losing our identity
- Fear of losing things
- Fear of making decisions
- Fear of separation from loved ones
- Fear of the future
- Fear regarding health
- Fear regarding the economy
- Fighting miserliness
- Figure-ground
- Fill yourself with good qualities
- Finally freeing myself from being a prisoner of love
- Finding hope after a loved one’s suicide
- Finding hope after the Orlando massacre
- Finding the best in other people
- Finding true happiness
- Fire and ice
- Five forces at time of death
- Five remembrances
- Flow
- Forebearance
- Forgiving after a betrayal
- Forgiving and apologizing
- Forgiving ourselves and others
- Friend, enemy and stranger
- Friendliness
- Friends who give bad advice
- Friendship
- From enemy to brother
- From TikTok to Dharma talk
- Fundamentals of being a Dharma guide
- Gasp! I was the angry person you were talking about!
- Gathas for daily life
- Generosity
- Generosity: The first paramita
- Genuine aspiration and resistance
- Genuine compassion
- Genuine self-confidence
- Getting a handle on anger
- Getting along with others
- Getting back on track
- Getting back on track
- Getting rid of my buttons
- Gibberish
- Giving positive feedback and praise
- Giving up the blame game
- Glad to be here
- Going beyond self-centeredness
- Good practices: Ancient and emerging
- Grape or no grape?
- Gratitude
- Gratitude for the Dharma
- Grieving the Sandy Hook tragedy
- Grouchy me
- Growing pains
- Growing through the Dharma
- Guided meditation on compassion
- Guiding one’s child
- Habitual behaviors and karma
- Haiku
- Handling fear and potential violence
- Happiness within ourselves
- Happy birthday, Mom
- Harmonizing criminal defendants’ imbalanced situations
- Harmony after Brexit
- Hate is not conquered by hate
- Having compassion for yourself
- Healing after suicide
- Healing anger in times of conflict
- Healing broken trust
- Healing from a war
- Healing from the heart
- Healing past relationships
- Healing prejudice
- Healing the body, mind, and world
- Healing the mind
- Healing with love and compassion
- Heart advice for practitioners
- Heartfelt gifts
- Helping a dying friend
- Helping angry people
- Helping each other feel safe
- Helping the dying
- Hermitage
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama and compassion
- Hit head-on? Pray!
- Hold me close
- Holding a space for compassion
- Homage to great compassion
- Homage to the Three Jewels
- Honestly looking at our afflictions
- Hope after the Sandy Hook school shooting
- Hot potato
- How a Buddhist deals with burnout
- How a Tibetan Buddhist nun works with her anger
- How and what to eat
- How anger impedes good relationships
- How attachment prevents having good relationships
- How can we deal with anger?
- How compassion changes us
- How do we make ourselves trustworthy?
- How ignorance interferes with good relationships
- How our emotions impact our mind
- How spirituality changed my life
- How to achieve success, happiness and love
- How to age happily
- How to be a 21st Century Buddhist
- How to be a Buddhist in today’s world
- How to be happy without attachment
- How to benefit from Dharma talks
- How to deal with sickness
- How to do prostrations and questions on Dharma in daily life
- How to handle everyday problems
- How to have a happy mind
- How to live in modern times
- How to love the people you dislike
- How to make wise decisions
- How to practice Dharma: a talk for youth and parents
- How to prepare for death
- How to think about the election
- Humor
- Hurtful words, healing words
- I am a Buddhist
- I love problems
- I saw a worm today
- I would normally have been upset
- I’m not an angry person, or am I?
- Identifying anxiety
- Identifying our feelings
- Identity theft
- If here, why not out there?
- Ignorance of the ego
- Imagery and method acting: Cultivating our compassionate selves
- In conversation with Venerable Thubten Chodron
- In the face of violence
- In the footsteps of the Buddha
- In the land of identities
- In the wake of Hurricane Katrina
- Incarcerated people transform adversity into the path
- Inner peace
- Inner peace, world peace
- Inside-out practice
- Inspirations for overcoming anger
- Inspiring story
- Interfaith philosophies
- Intolerance: Look Into Your Own Mind
- Intoxicants
- Introduction to the taking and giving meditation
- Invasive weeds of the mind
- Is euthanizing pets advisable?
- Is this America, or a war zone?
- Islamic-Buddhist dialogue
- It comes from our mind
- It could be worse
- It takes courage on both sides
- It works!!
- It’s never hopeless
- It’s never too late
- It’s not about the money: “Sutta on the Dung Beetle”
- Jewels of the Dharma
- Jewish roots, Buddhist blossoms
- Joshua
- Journey to the operating room and beyond
- Joy and courage
- Joyous effort
- Joys of taking the bodhisattva vows
- Judgmental mind, kindness and compassion
- Jury duty
- Just another day at work
- Just breathe
- Kaleidescope wheel
- Karma and change
- Karma and September 11
- Karma ripening
- Karma, confusion and clarity
- Keep a happy mind
- Keep it simple, stupid
- Keeping balance
- Kindness and forgiveness
- Kindness in practice
- Kindness in times of disagreement
- Kindness of mothers (all beings)
- Kindness to myself
- Kitchen Dharma
- Kuan Yin and compassion
- Kurushimi
- Kwan Yin
- Latka: Feeling left out
- Leading a discussion on forgiveness
- Leading a Medicine Buddha meditation
- Leading an open-hearted life
- Leading meditations and discussions
- Leading ourselves out of addiction
- Learning from illness
- Learning from others
- Learning to be ethical
- Learning to find inner peace
- Learning to forgive
- Learning to live with compassion
- Learning, Living, and Teaching Bodhicitta
- Let the mind see the mind
- Letter to someone whose son committed suicide
- Letting go of attachments
- Letting go of guilt and shame
- Liberation from the eight dangers: Verses 1-3
- Liberation from the eight dangers: Verses 4-8
- Life after the pandemic: It depends on us
- Life in the hole
- Life is like sowing seeds
- Listening to my body
- Live each day with loving-kindness
- Living a balanced life and making wise choices
- Living a happy life: Covid or not
- Living an open-hearted life
- Living in harmony when things fall apart
- Living in harmony with one another
- Living in the modern world with love and compassion
- Living in the modern world with love and compassion
- Living on automatic versus living from our heart
- Living the Buddha’s teachings in the 21st century
- Living with loss
- Living with optimism
- Living without fear
- Living without fear
- Logic and reasoning in daily life
- Loneliness
- Look into your own mind
- Losing a dear one who was young
- Loss of a loved one to suicide
- Loss of a loved one to suicide
- Love
- Love and attachment
- Love and compassion
- Love does no harm
- Love people, not pleasure
- Love unbounded
- Love, compassion, peace
- Loving kindness and compassion in daily life
- Loving oneself and others
- Make a difference
- Make every day a miracle
- Making a real difference
- Making decisions for long term benefit
- Making friends with ourselves
- Making life meaningful
- Making life meaningful in prison
- Making mistakes
- Making our minds receptive to the Dharma
- Making requests and self-reliance
- Making the teachings personal
- Managing anger in a relationship
- Managing our fear of death
- Masks
- Meaning in life by benefiting others
- Medicine Buddha practice for the deceased
- Meditating on death
- Meditating on equanimity
- Meditating on taking and giving
- Meditation for parents grieving the loss of a child
- Meditation in a psychiatric hospital setting
- Meditation on how only spiritual practice helps at death
- Meditation on the eight stages of the death process
- Meditation on the inevitability of death
- Meditation on transforming anger into compassion
- Meditation to raise consciousness for a healthy relationship with nature
- Meditation with noise
- Meeting adversity with joy
- Meeting breast cancer with the Dharma
- Meeting Tara
- Merging the Dharma with daily life
- Mindful awareness
- Mindfulness of death and impermanence
- Mindfulness, contentment, and ABBA
- Misconceptions about compassion
- Morality in a modern world
- More reflections on the Orlando tragedy
- More remedies for anger
- Motivated to not harm
- Moving from the heart
- Moving toward compassion
- Musings at a red light
- My big fat self-centered attitude
- My father’s death
- My favorite pastime is complaining
- My favorite pastime: complaining
- My identity crisis
- My karma beatdown
- My political bias
- My precious opportunity
- My prison education
- My three jewels
- My tiger
- My time in prison
- My trip to the operating theatre and back
- My true religion is kindness
- Nelson Mandela’s advice
- New perspective
- No compassion, no peace
- No more labels
- No more whining
- No need to fake it: Developing true self-confidence
- Noble silence
- Nonviolence and compassion
- Not feeding the fire
- Notes on preparing for a loved one’s death
- Now it’s time to wake up
- Obstacles and antidotes
- Obstacles to compassion
- Offering our food
- Offering precepts in prison
- Offering service
- On attachment
- On death and bereavement
- On marital separation
- On perfectionism
- On the backdrop of time
- One year after the Aurora shooting
- Only spiritual practice can help at death
- Open heart, clear mind
- Opening new doors of opportunity
- Opening up to love
- Optimism and renunciation
- Organ donation is a personal decision
- Our capacity for kindness
- Our circle of suffering
- Our game plan in a time of war
- Our mission as educators
- Our motivation for eating
- Overcoming anger and frustration
- Overcoming anger towards those who use hate speech
- Overcoming anxiety
- Overcoming fear and preconceptions
- Overcoming jealousy
- Overcoming obstacles to practice
- Overcoming the obstacles to developing compassion
- Overcoming unwholesome states
- Overwhelmed?
- Owl
- Owning up, but with hope
- Panic and fear
- Parts repairs and gratitude
- Patience with the path
- Paying attention to life
- Peace and justice after September 11
- Peace practices: Changing the world from the inside out
- People serving time
- Personal demons
- Photos with incarcerated people
- Pink flamingos
- Planned parenting
- Poem to Mom and Dad
- Poems of Human and Spirit
- Politics, Power, and Peace
- Positive effects of Dharma practice
- Positive thinking
- Power to hope, power to heal
- Practical ethics
- Practical ethics and leadership
- Practical ethics from Nagarjuna
- Practice and our mind
- Practices and rituals
- Practices for preparing for death
- Practices for the deceased
- Practicing bodhicitta
- Practicing Buddhism in daily life
- Practicing compassion in helping professions: A Buddhist perspective
- Practicing Dharma with mental illness
- Practicing for a loved one who is ill
- Practicing in prison
- Practicing in prison
- Practicing in the face of cancer
- Practicing the six perfections
- Practicing when having surgery
- Practicing with a year of illness
- Practicing with what’s in front of you
- Practicing with your spiritual mentor’s passing
- Practising and upholding the precepts
- Preparing for a loved one’s death
- Preparing for death
- Preparing spiritually for death
- Preparing well for our death
- Preservation of Tibet’s culture and environment
- Prison and prayer
- Prison Dharma
- Prison labor
- Prison of desire
- Prison outreach in Mexico
- Prison pagoda of loving kindness
- Prison poetry I
- Prison poetry II
- Prison poetry III
- Prison poetry IV
- Prison revisited
- Prison volunteer workshop
- Prison work
- Prison, life, impermanence
- Prisons of the mind
- Purification
- Purifying negative karma
- Purifying our wrong actions
- Push and pull of emotional life
- Q&A session in Singapore
- Qualifications
- Qualities of a friend
- Question and answers on Dharma and life
- Questions and answers on anger
- Questions and answers on Dharma in daily life
- Questions and answers on ethical conduct
- Questions from children
- Racism as a public health crisis
- Raising a moral child
- Re-writing the 12 steps, 1-7
- Re-writing the 12 steps, 8-12
- Reaching out with compassion
- Rebirth and the uncertainty of the time of death
- Recognizing impermanence
- Recognizing negative emotions
- Recognizing our inner beauty
- Redefining boundaries
- Reentry
- Reflecting on precious human life
- Reflection on life
- Reflections after doing retreat on the four establishments of mindfulness
- Reflections of a Jewish Buddhist
- Reflections on “At Hell’s Gate”
- Reflections on anger
- Reflections on my good fortune
- Reflections on rebirth
- Reflections on social media
- Relating to others in the community
- Release from prison: Shock or growth?
- Releasing the need to be the best
- Religious diversity and religious harmony
- Remaining calm
- Remembering Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Removing partiality
- Report on “Nuns in the West I”
- Report on “Nuns in the West II”
- Resistance
- Resistance to practice
- Resources for fearful scenarios
- Respect for common American values
- Respecting others
- Responding to terrorism
- Responding to the election results
- Responding to war with peace
- Retreating from anger
- Return to reality: Love and hate
- Returning the United States to democracy and civility
- Reunion
- Reversing selfishness
- Revoking anger’s “Get out of trouble free” card
- Riding the roller coaster
- Right effort, learning, and love
- Right speech in an age of fake news
- Romance and family life
- Rules of the universe and the benefits of cherishing others
- Ruminating
- Sadness and anger in response to mass shootings
- Safety or guns?
- Saved by the Dharma
- Scars and catharsis
- Scholarship from death row prisoners
- Science and technology in service of society
- Searching for happiness
- Seeing Buddha nature
- Seeing kindness everywhere
- Seeing the kindness of all beings
- Seeing the kindness of others
- Seeking liberation while in prison
- Seeking peace
- Seeking unity, not division
- Self-acceptance
- Self-centeredness and being spiritually stuck
- Self-centeredness and marriage
- Self-compassion
- Self-compassion
- Selflessness keeps you out of SHU
- Serve other beings as much as possible
- Serving one’s spiritual mentor
- Setting a good motivation for surgery
- Setting our motivation
- Shame
- Share your love, wisdom, and wealth
- Sharing
- Sharing positive energy
- Should Buddhists vote?
- Showing up for yourself
- Simplifying our lives
- Sitting with difficulty
- Slow things down and give them some space
- Small acts of compassion can have big results
- So, now what?
- Social action and interfaith dialogue
- Some thoughts on the practice of gratitude
- Speaking of the faults of others
- Spiritual confidence in the workplace
- Spiritually preparing for death
- Spreading compassion
- Squeezing George Washington so tight he cries
- Sravasti Grove
- Stages of grief
- Stateville
- Staying calm in the face of challenges
- Sticking to my principles
- Stinkin’ thinkin’
- Stories of forgiveness
- Straight and clean clear
- Strategies for managing anger
- Street kids
- Strength, joy, and compassion
- Strengthening and maintaining mental well-being—the Buddhist approach
- Stress
- Strong attachment to desire
- Suicide prevention awareness
- Suicide Prevention Awareness Month: September 2019
- Suicide watch
- Supporting a loved one in prison
- Supporting a suicidal person
- Surgery with bodhicitta
- Survival of the most cooperative
- Survival of the most cooperative
- Surviving in the system
- Taking intoxicants
- Taking the bodhisattva vows
- Taking the vow of celibacy
- Talking to the person I used to be
- Teaching children by example
- Teaching meditation in the prison system
- Tears of compassion
- Tears on the front lawn
- Thanks for the Dharma Dispatch
- The 12 steps of Co-Dependents Anonymous
- The 9-point meditation on death
- The allure of drugs
- The amazing effects of compassion
- The beauty of creating the causes
- The Buddhist approach to happiness
- The Buddhist view of anger
- The choices we make
- The coffee pot: A test of my tolerance
- The conversation
- The creator of happiness and suffering
- The critical, judgmental mind
- The cure
- The Dalai Lama on prison life
- The day has finally arrived
- The de facto clause
- The death of a child
- The deer
- The Dharma is flourishing
- The Dharma works
- The disadvantages of holding grudges
- The disadvantages of self-centeredness
- The downside of anger
- The earth is our only home
- The eight pillars of joy
- The eight stages of the death process
- The eight worldly concerns
- The emptiness of giving
- The extinguishing of fires
- The first nonvirtue of speech: Lying (part 1)
- The first nonvirtue of speech: Lying (part 2)
- The fixer
- The formula for happiness
- The four immeasurables
- The four opponent actions for healing broken trust
- The four opponent powers
- The fourth nonvirtue of speech: Idle talk (part 1)
- The fourth nonvirtue of speech: Idle talk (part 2)
- The garden notices the rocks moving
- The golden rule
- The goslings and the terrier
- The great illusion of duality
- The grief and resilience of a mother
- The happiness of an open-hearted life
- The heart connection between monastics and laypeople
- The heart of forgiveness
- The hills we climb
- The human story
- The importance of consistency
- The importance of empathic listening
- The importance of regular practice
- The inevitability of death
- The internal tiger: anger and fear
- The jerk and the potato chips
- The journey
- The judgmental mind
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of others
- The kindness of sentient beings
- The kindness of strangers
- The liberation of self-forgiveness
- The link between anger and arrogance
- The lion of pride
- The lone Buddhist
- The love of money
- The love that empowers your life
- The meaning and purpose of life
- The meaning of heart
- The meaning of life
- The meeting of Sri Lankan and Tibetan monks
- The merit of offering food and drink
- The middle way
- The Mind and Life III Conference: Emotions and health
- The Mind and Life IV conference: Sleeping, dreaming, and dying
- The Mind and Life VIII conference: Destructive emotions
- The most stable people in prison
- The mule
- The need for correct discernment
- The origin of “The Jew in the Lotus”
- The other shore
- The pagoda project: An update
- The pajama room
- The path and the garden
- The path to self-acceptance
- The peace and beauty of the night’s darkness
- The pitfalls of perfectionism
- The power of compassion in a chaotic world
- The power of compassion, part 1
- The power of compassion, part 2
- The power of compassion, part 3
- The power of compassion, part 4
- The power of forgiveness
- The power of gratitude
- The power of optimism
- The power of optimism and types of emotion
- The power of prayer during a pandemic
- The power of precepts
- The power of respect
- The precept of nonviolence
- The prison way of life
- The purpose of a spiritual mentor
- The reality of adversity
- The Ronco label maker
- The sangha in us all
- The second Gethsemani Encounter
- The second nonvirtue of speech: Divisive speech (part 1)
- The second nonvirtue of speech: Divisive speech (part 2)
- The secret to happiness
- The secret to happiness
- The seven-point instruction of cause and effect
- The silver lining
- The sneaky self-centered thought
- The social impact of gun violence
- The source of happiness and problems
- The spark
- The stench of hatred
- The subtleties of truthful speech
- The Teddy Bear Project
- The third nonvirtue of speech: Harsh speech (part 1)
- The third nonvirtue of speech: Harsh speech (part 2)
- The third nonvirtue of speech: Harsh speech (part 3)
- The true meaning of forgiveness
- The uncertainty of the time of death
- The value of a disciplined way of life
- The value of prison work
- The warrior of dawn
- The way of compassion
- The way we live will affect the way we die
- The whole of the spiritual life
- The wisdom of fear
- Them
- There are no enemies
- Think about it
- Thinking about death
- This hit home
- Thoughts
- Three types of emotion and their influence
- Three virtues entwined
- Thriving in tough times
- Tibetan Lama visits incarcerated people
- Time, inspiration, and gratitude
- To bear the unbearable
- To choose or not to choose
- To Geshela with appreciation
- To go one’s own way
- To reach potential
- Tonglen and social problems
- Too precious to lose
- Tools for Dharma guides
- Towards a century of compassion and peace
- Transfer
- Transforming adversity
- Transforming adversity into bodhicitta
- Transforming aging and illness into the path
- Transforming anger
- Transforming anger into compassion
- Transforming anxiety and depression
- Transforming anxiety and depression in a rapidly changing world
- Transforming depression and anxiety
- Transforming grief into gratitude and love
- Transforming intellectual knowledge into compassionate action: Part 1
- Transforming intellectual knowledge into compassionate action: Part 2
- Transforming knowledge into action
- Transforming knowledge into action
- Transforming problems into the path
- Transforming the mind with compassion
- Transforming the three times
- Transforming to a global village of harmony and peace
- Transforming violence with compassion
- Trauma and recovery
- Treasure the present
- Trouble with relationships
- True liberty for all beings
- Truth
- Try again
- Turning my life around
- Twelve ways to apply compassion in society
- Understanding disturbing emotions
- Understanding Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s passing and praying for his swift return
- Understanding reality
- Understanding the Dalai Lama
- Unforgettable memories
- Universal responsibility and the global environment
- Upon life’s journey
- Using the 12-step program if you’re a Buddhist
- Using the Dharma to manage an unpredictable illness
- Valentine’s Day at Oregon State Prison
- Valuable lesson learned
- Vanquishing depression and anxiety
- Verses after lunch
- Verses after meals
- Verses before meals
- Views on reforming the prison system
- Virtue board
- Visit to Airway Heights Correctional Center
- Visualization and purification
- VRBO
- Waking up to dealing with my anger
- Walking in your footsteps
- Wanting to fix others
- Was the Buddha an activist?
- Watering seeds
- Wayward
- We all can overcome our wrong views
- We are all Michael Brown and Darren Wilson
- We are all prisoners
- We are human beings
- We are impermanence
- We need to remember that we are going to die
- Welcoming refugees
- What a wonderful world!
- What brings happiness
- What brought me to Buddhism
- What Buddhism says about death
- What exactly is happiness?
- What helps at the time of death
- What helps at the time of death
- What I learned about Judaism from the Dalai Lama
- What if the Buddha were a lay woman?
- What is Happiness? (Part 1)
- What is Happiness? (Part 2)
- What is Happiness? (Part 3)
- What is the truth?
- What it means to be happy—a talk with young students
- What mental factors protect trust?
- What the Buddha taught
- What to do when dying
- When a dear one has a medical emergency
- When compassion arises
- When our spiritual mentors pass away
- Where cultural identity and interdependence connect
- Whisper
- White privilege
- Who am I? Really
- Who is making this decision, anyway?
- Who understands me but me
- Who’s poisoning me?
- Who’s responsible for my suffering?
- Wholesome fear of death
- Wholesome or unwholesome seeds
- Why do Buddhists bow and other questions on practice
- Why do I get angry?
- Why not me?
- Why should I fight?
- Why talk about fear?
- Why we need compassion
- Why?
- Wisdom and compassion
- Wisdom and compassion in daily life
- Wisdom from Great Aunt Ga-ga
- Wisdom you can taste
- Wisdom, love, and hatred
- With our thoughts we make the world
- Without a vodka bottle in my hand
- Work
- Work retreat
- Working in a jail
- Working with anger
- Working with anger
- Working with anger
- Working with anger
- Working with anger in daily life
- Working with anger, part 1
- Working with anger, part 2
- Working with attachment to food
- Working with Buddhists behind bars
- Working with compassion
- Working with Conflict and Making Requests
- Working with doubt
- Working with emotions
- Working with emotions: Anger
- Working with emotions: General antidotes to afflictions
- Working with fear and anxiety
- Working with jealousy
- Working with judgement and partiality
- Working with People in Prison
- Working with unfulfilled expectations
- Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions
- Worldly views
- Worthwhile people
- Yes, but
- YouTube Dharma
Don't Believe Everything You Think
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Engaged Buddhism
- A balanced mind in an election year
- A call for empathy
- A letter from a listener
- A prayer for the world
- A-Bombs, terrorism, and karma
- Activism with altruism
- Analyzing the terrorist
- Assessing our speech and motivation
- Benefitting animals with wisdom and compassion
- Bodhisattva versus white supremacist
- Bringing the Dharma to the Middle East
- Buddhist Advice for Ruling a Kingdom
- Buddhists in conflict
- Can a gun really protect you?
- Caring for our only home
- Compassion after September 11
- Compassion and kindness in the face of terrorism
- Compassion and social action
- Compassion and social engagement
- Compassion and world peace
- Compassion in action
- Compassion in the midst of chaos
- Connecting with compassion
- Consumerism and the environment
- Coronavirus: This is the time to practice
- Cultivating equanimity in a time of violence
- Cultivating peace from the inside out
- Cultivating social harmony
- Cynicism, fear of change, responsibility
- Dealing with racism
- Dealing with violent acts
- Faith leaders united against gun violence
- Faith-based applications to gun violence prevention
- Fear and apathy in response to mass shootings
- Finding hope after the Orlando massacre
- Friend, enemy and stranger
- Fundamentals of being a Dharma guide
- Good practices: Ancient and emerging
- Grieving the Sandy Hook tragedy
- Habitual behaviors and karma
- Harmony after Brexit
- Hate is not conquered by hate
- Healing anger in times of conflict
- Healing from a war
- Holding a space for compassion
- Honestly looking at our afflictions
- Hope after the Sandy Hook school shooting
- How to think about the election
- In the face of violence
- In the wake of Hurricane Katrina
- Is this America, or a war zone?
- It’s never hopeless
- Judgmental mind, kindness and compassion
- Karma and September 11
- Leading a discussion on forgiveness
- Leading a Medicine Buddha meditation
- Leading meditations and discussions
- Life after the pandemic: It depends on us
- Living in harmony when things fall apart
- Living without fear
- Look into your own mind
- Meditation in a psychiatric hospital setting
- Meditation to raise consciousness for a healthy relationship with nature
- Meeting adversity with joy
- More reflections on the Orlando tragedy
- Motivated to not harm
- No compassion, no peace
- Nonviolence and compassion
- One year after the Aurora shooting
- Our game plan in a time of war
- Overcoming anger towards those who use hate speech
- Overcoming fear and preconceptions
- Panic and fear
- Peace and justice after September 11
- Politics, Power, and Peace
- Practices and rituals
- Preservation of Tibet’s culture and environment
- Racism as a public health crisis
- Respect for common American values
- Responding to terrorism
- Responding to the election results
- Responding to war with peace
- Returning the United States to democracy and civility
- Sadness and anger in response to mass shootings
- Safety or guns?
- Seeing the kindness of others
- Seeking unity, not division
- Should Buddhists vote?
- Tears on the front lawn
- The earth is our only home
- The golden rule
- The power of prayer during a pandemic
- The silver lining
- The social impact of gun violence
- Tonglen and social problems
- Too precious to lose
- Tools for Dharma guides
- Towards a century of compassion and peace
- True liberty for all beings
- Universal responsibility and the global environment
- Was the Buddha an activist?
- We all can overcome our wrong views
- We are all Michael Brown and Darren Wilson
- Welcoming refugees
- White privilege
Engaging in the Bodhisattva's Deeds
Essential Spiritual Advice
Ethics in the Modern World
Explore Monastic Life
- “Connected Discourses with Kassapa”
- “The Fruits of the Homeless Life”
- “The Fruits of the Homeless Life”
- A history of monastic lineages
- A mirror for our spiritual journey
- A monastic community
- A monastic’s commitments & the benefits of monasteries
- Adapting monastic precepts to culture
- Advantages of precepts
- Advice from the preceptor
- Advice from the preceptor
- After ordination
- After the Buddha awakened
- Am I good enough?
- An example of integrity
- Anger and selflessness
- Approaching ordination
- Attributes of a monastic life
- Benefits of ordination
- Buddhism and culture
- Changes in relationships and social life
- Commitment, authority and autonomy
- Community and the six harmonies
- Community life and causality
- Community life and monastic ordination
- Confession prayer part 3
- Contentment
- Core elements of a monastic lifestyle
- Cultivating self-acceptance
- Cutting bonds and going forth
- Deciding to become a monastic
- Development of the first sangha
- Development of the sangha
- Development of the traditions
- Disrespecting parents, spiritual mentors, & spiritual friends
- Doing long retreat
- Don’t make me swarm!
- Elements of the monastic lifestyle
- Entire path to enlightenment
- Essentials of monastic life
- Establishing precepts
- Ethical conduct
- Ethical conduct
- Ethical conduct on the path
- Ethics and becoming a monastic
- Evolution of the monastic community
- Explanation of the general confession
- Exploring monastic life Q&A
- Exploring our motivation for ordination
- Faith and virtue
- Family life
- Freedom and suffering
- Giving up the ping-pong of afflictions
- Going forth
- Gradual path to enlightenment
- Guarding integrity and aspiration
- Guarding integrity and aspiration
- Higher training in ethical discipline
- Historical evolution of the sangha
- History of the eight Mahayana precepts
- History of the sangha
- Honesty and trust
- How a monastic interacts with others
- How do friends and family fit into monastic life?
- How do we know when we’re ready to ordain?
- How monastics differ from laypeople
- How precepts promote harmony in the sangha
- How precepts transform society
- How to be a good Dharma student
- Humility, transparency, and self-acceptance
- Importance of precepts
- Introducing Exploring Monastic Life 2008
- Joys and challenges of religious life
- Kassapa Discourses: Admonishment
- Kassapa Discourses: Guarding the mind
- Keeping ethical conduct
- Keeping the mind on spiritual practice
- Leaving family and renouncing worldly ties
- Letting go of “me,” “I,” and “mine”
- Letting go of clinging to identities
- Letting go of identities
- Life of the Buddha
- Livelihood for monastics
- Living a happy monastic life
- Living in a monastic environment
- Living in monastic community
- Living in novice precepts
- Living joyfully together
- Making the unfamiliar, familiar
- Mindfulness and checking awareness
- Minor hindrances to ordination
- Modern day precepts
- Monastic etiquette
- Monastic life
- Monastic life and mind
- Monastic life changes: Courage
- Monastic life changes: Relationships
- Monastic life in America
- Monastic precepts
- Monastic precepts and community life
- Monasticism in the West
- Monasticism meeting modernity
- Motivation and community
- Motivation in a monastic environment
- Non-negotiables in Dharma practice
- Ordination for women across traditions part 1
- Ordination for women across traditions part 2
- Ordination is a wonderous deed
- Ordination lineages
- Origin of the Mahayana sutras
- Origins of precepts and monastic ordination
- Perfection of concentration
- Planning for ordination
- Pratimoksa precepts
- Precepts and the afflictions
- Precepts and their background
- Precepts and vows
- Precepts free the mind
- Pure teaching of Dharma
- Purpose of precepts
- Pursuing true happiness
- Qualifications for ordination
- Qualities of a monastic
- Qualities of the monastic mind
- Questions for group discussions
- Ratthapala’s discourse with his family and the king
- Reasons for monastic precepts
- Reducing attachment, cultivating confidence
- Reflections on the first Exploring Monastic Life, 2005
- Refuge and precepts ceremony
- Reimagining Buddhist ethics in the world
- Relating to the material world
- Renouncing worldly life
- Renunciation and attachment to comfort
- Resisting social pressure
- Robes of liberation
- Samsaric pleasures and developing concentration
- Sangha activities as a community
- Sangha and community living
- Seeing reality as it is
- Seeking liberation
- Self-confidence across monastic cultures
- Sexuality and celibacy
- Simplicity
- Sincerely going forth
- Six harmonies of the sangha
- Six harmonies of the sangha
- Space from sensual pleasures
- Sravasti Abbey values
- Sustaining our monastic life
- Tailoring teachings to meet different needs
- Taking and holding the precepts
- Taking ethical restraints
- Taking precepts
- Taking refuge
- Taming the mind
- Tantra in practice
- Ten advantages of establishing precepts & skandhakas
- Ten reasons for monastic precepts
- The “Brahmajala Sutta” and monastic conduct
- The “Brahmajala Sutta” and monastic precepts
- The “Ratnapala Sutta”
- The “Ratthapala Sutta”
- The banner of the Dharma
- The benefits of community life
- The benefits of establishing precepts
- The benefits of precepts
- The border between liberation and cyclic existence
- The Buddha and monasticism
- The Buddha’s advice to laypeople
- The Buddha’s awakening
- The Buddha’s homeless life
- The Buddha’s life
- The Buddha’s life
- The Buddha’s life and teaching
- The Buddha’s life as an example
- The Buddha’s life story
- The Buddha’s life story part 1
- The Buddha’s life story part 2
- The Buddha’s life: The four sights
- The Buddha’s enlightenment
- The Buddha’s life
- The conditions for ordination
- The development of Tantra in Buddhism
- The development of the Mahayana tradition
- The eight Mahayana precepts
- The elements of monastic life
- The evolution of the Dharma and the vinaya
- The first monastic precept
- The five precepts
- The foundation of monastic life
- The fruits of exploring monastic life
- The Greater Discourse on the “Lion’s Roar Sutta”
- The Greater Discourse on the “Simile of the Heartwood”
- The hindrances to ordaining
- The householder’s life
- The importance of daily practice
- The importance of motivation for ordaining
- The life of the Buddha
- The life story of the Buddha
- The meaning of ordination
- The monastic preceptor
- The noble search
- The practice of appreciating others
- The precepts in modern culture
- The purpose of developing concentration
- The purpose of monastic life
- The purpose of monastic precepts
- The purpose of Sravasti Abbey
- The purpose of the EML program
- The role of a monastic
- The sense of “I” is the source of all problems
- The seven ways to end disputes
- The six harmonies
- The six harmonies (continued)
- The six harmonies of monastic life
- The six harmonies of the sangha
- The spread of Buddhism
- The spread of Buddhism and monastic life
- The spread of the Dharma
- The value of a sangha community
- The value of a sangha community
- The view of the middle way
- Things to consider before ordaining
- Time well spent
- Training the mind in contentment
- Transgressing precepts of individual liberation
- Turning the wheel of Dharma
- Uncovering unrealistic expectations
- Unravelling our hallucinations
- Vinaya of the seven recent Buddhas
- Visualizations and Brahma’s request
- Volunteering to take monastic vows
- Western monastics
- What changes when you become a monastic
- What the Buddha faced in his life
- Why are we not happy?
- Why ordain young?
- Women in Buddhism: Levels of ordination
- Words of advice
- Working with afflictions
- Working with afflictive emotions
- Working with expectations
- Working with hindrances and self-hatred
- Working with sexual attachment
- Working with the mind in a structured way
Exploring Monastic Life 2005
Exploring Monastic Life 2006
Exploring Monastic Life 2007
Exploring Monastic Life 2008
Exploring Monastic Life 2009
Exploring Monastic Life 2010
Exploring Monastic Life 2011
Exploring Monastic Life 2012
Exploring Monastic Life 2013
Exploring Monastic Life 2014
Exploring Monastic Life 2015
Exploring Monastic Life 2016
Exploring Monastic Life 2017
Exploring Monastic Life 2018
Exploring Monastic Life 2019
Exploring Monastic Life 2021
Exploring Monastic Life 2022
Exploring Monastic Life 2023
Exploring Monastic Life 2024
Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions
Four Establishments of Mindfulness (Russia)
Four Establishments of Mindfulness Retreat
Four Truths for the Aryas
Four-armed Chenrezig Retreat with Ven. Sangye Khadro (2023)
Gomchen Lamrim
- Afflictions and the accumulation of karma
- Antidotes to the eight worldly concerns and the ten innermost jewels
- Aspiring bodhicitta
- Attachment, anger, and conceit
- Attaining serenity
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 1-6
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 13-18
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 19-20
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 21-25
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 25-34
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 35-39
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 40-46
- Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 7-12
- Avoiding rebirth in the lower realms
- Benefits of cherishing others
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints 11-18
- Bodhisattva ethical restraints 5-10
- Chandrakirti’s homage to great compassion
- Contemplating specific aspects of karma
- Contemplating the eight types of dukkha, part 1
- Contemplating the eight types of dukkha, part 2
- Death and the intermediate state
- Dependent arising
- Developing conviction in karma
- Disadvantages of self-centeredness
- Equalizing self and others
- Equanimity—freedom from bias
- Ethical conduct review
- Examples of mutual dependence
- Extensive giving
- Fortitude and religious intolerance
- Fortitude review
- From serenity to the jhanas
- Generating renunciation
- Giving to all sentient beings
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Aspiring Bodhicitta
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Birth, aging, sickness, and death
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Bodhicitta
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Cultivating compassion
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Developing conviction in karma
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Equanimity
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Equanimity and equalizing self and others
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Exchanging self for others
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Homage to compassion
- Gomchen lamrim review: How to rely on the teachings and teachers
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Karma
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Karma in daily life
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Precious human life
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Refuge in the Three Jewels
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Reliance on a spiritual mentor
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Remembering death brings life to our practice
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Seven-point cause and effect instruction
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Seven-point cause and effect instruction continued
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Specific aspects of karma
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The 37 harmonies
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The actual meditation session
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The afflictions
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The causes for taking refuge
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The importance of remembering death
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The six preparatory practices
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The teachings, teachers, and students
- Gomchen Lamrim review: The truth of dukkha
- Gomchen Lamrim review: Two meditations on death
- Gomchen Lamrim study guide
- Great compassion and the great resolve
- Great resolve and bodhicitta
- Heartwarming love
- How the afflictions arise
- How to listen to and explain the Dharma teachings
- How to meditate on insight
- How to rely on spiritual mentors in thought and deed
- How to take full advantage of a precious human rebirth
- How to take refuge in the Three Jewels
- Identifying afflictive ignorance
- Identifying inherent existence
- Identifying the person
- Ignorance, doubt, and afflictive views
- Illusion-like appearances
- Joyous effort
- Joyous effort review
- Meditation session outline
- Meditative stability
- More on joyous effort
- More on the ten paths of nonvirtue today
- Nine stages of sustained attention
- Nine-point meditation on death
- Objects of meditation
- Objects of meditation: Pali tradition
- Offering our bodies to sentient beings
- Perfection of generosity
- Points on karma and purification using the four forces
- Real and unreal
- Realizing selflessness
- Reflecting on the six types of dukkha
- Review of cultivating insight into emptiness
- Review of five faults and eight antidotes
- Review of serenity
- Review of three kinds of dependent arising
- Review: Nine stages of sustained attention
- Seeing all sentient beings as having been our kind mothers
- Self centeredness and the five decisions
- Serenity and insight
- Six conditions for serenity
- Taking on the suffering of others
- Taking rebirth from the intermediate state
- Taking-and-giving meditation
- The 37 harmonies with awakening
- The 37 harmonies with awakening, part 2
- The benefits of remembering death
- The causes of bodhicitta
- The correct view
- The drawbacks to not remembering death
- The effects of negative karma
- The factors that influence karmic weight
- The five faults and eight antidotes
- The five hindrances to meditative stabilization
- The five types of afflictive views
- The four great qualities of the lamrim
- The freedoms and fortunes of a precious human rebirth
- The mental nonvirtues: coveting, malice and wrong views
- The nonvirtues of harsh speech and idle talk
- The nonvirtues of lying and divisive speech
- The nonvirtues of stealing and sexual misconduct
- The object of negation
- The perfection of ethical conduct
- The perfection of fortitude
- The perfection of generosity
- The permutations of karma
- The precepts for aspiring and engaging bodhicitta
- The qualities of spiritual mentors and students
- The qualities of the Three Jewels
- The relationship between the two truths
- The six far-reaching practices
- The six preliminary practices, part 1
- The six preliminary practices, part 2
- The ten paths of nonvirtue today
- The three types of fortitude
- The two truths
- The vast benefits of bodhicitta
- Three kinds of dependent arising
- Three types of compassion
- Virtuous karma and its effects
- What makes karma powerful
- What to do during the meditation session and between sessions
Good Karma Annual Retreat
Good Karma Short Retreats
Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2015
Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2020
Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010
Harmony with the Environment
Healing from Gun Violence
Helping the Dying and Deceased
How to See Yourself As You Really Are
