Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Short daily talks given during the Green Tara Winter Retreat on how to transform the mind by meditating on Green Tara.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Questioning our perceptions

An explanation of how emptiness and dependent arising do not contradict each other.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Making decisions

Are chocolate brownies inherently delicious? An analysis of the grasping nature of our minds.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Working on our attachments

We don't need to keep trying new things in order to see how attachment works.…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Thinking about emptiness

The wisdom realizing emptiness has the ability to cut the root of suffering once and…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Attachment to reputation

Attachment to reputation and anger at criticism go hand in hand. In meditation we need…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Praise and criticism

If criticism is valid, why get angry? We can simply admit our mistakes and do…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Reasonable self-evaluation

We can learn to evaluate ourselves by examining our motivations and actions so that we…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Dealing with difficult people

We can change our way of relating to people we find difficult by considering that…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Clairvoyant powers

Clairvoyant powers are not the purpose of the path. Why the Buddha limited the display…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Fear and wisdom fear

Fear often comes from attachment. There is a difference between panicked, afflicted fear and a…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Facing fears

When we're injured or ill we can fall into thinking the problem is permanent, thus…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Conditioned fear

Some of our fears are conditioned by society, but we can look at the role…

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