Green Tara
How to do the practice of Tara the liberator, our buddha potential in its future fully purified and evolved form.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Visualizing the object of meditation
How to visualize Tara during concentration, or shamatha, meditation, both front-generation and self-generation.
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Distrust of false appearances
When we meditate on emptiness and begin to distrust the false appearance of inherent existence,…
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Awareness of emptiness
The awareness of emptiness achieved during meditation can be strengthened by developing our concentration.
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Subtle mind and wind in tantra
What appears to the mind during meditation on emptiness in tantric practice?
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Dismantling personal identity
Examining how our mind puts parts together through a conceptual process and see the object…
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Dependent arising: Causal dependence
Meditation on causal dependence as a way of becoming familiar with the concept of dependent…
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Dependent arising: Dependence on parts
Meditation on the dependence of parts as a way of becoming familiar with the concept…
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Working with the Tara sadhana
How to personalize the sadhana—and your meditation sessions—keeping it fresh during retreat.
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Causal dependence and karma
Understanding karma as related to the concept of causal dependence.
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Dependent arising: Dependent designation
The concept of dependent arising can be examined by meditating on dependent designation, or the…
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Designating labels: Rinpoches and lamas
An explanation of the use of titles in Tibetan Buddhism and how they may be…
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Developing self-acceptance
Self-acceptance comes from having compassion for ourselves, differentiating the person from the actions that we…
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