White Tara

Practice White Tara to increase compassion, long life, healing, and serenity.

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

White Tara at your heart

How to visualize and think about White Tara dissolving into you at the end of…

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

How to approach retreat

What to do and what to expect during a retreat. Meditation and practice instructions.

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Symbolism and visualization

How the visualizations in the sadhanas get us in touch with spiritual qualities through symbolic…

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A White Tara statue at 'Tara's Well'.
White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Dedication as generosity

The goodness that we create from dedicating merit is a practice of far-reaching generosity.

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Pacifying the demon of doubt

Working with the mind when questions and doubts come up. The importance of keeping an…

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Rejoicing and dedicating

How merit is created in rejoicing in the virtues of ordinary and holy beings, and…

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Dedication and karma

Different views on whether or not dedicating completely protects merit from being destroyed by anger.

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Thangka image of White Tara.
White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Purification and visualization

Elaborating on the meaning and symbolization of the visualization in the White Tara sadhana.

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The Eight Dangers

The lion of pride

Pride comes from an inflated sense of selfhood, either thinking oneself superior or inferior. True…

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