White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11
Extensive teachings on how to do the White Tara practice given during a three-month Winter Retreat.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Sensual desires
Attachment to sense objects interferes with concentration while meditating. How to counteract such distractions to…
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Dullness and drowsiness
How to prevent and deal with dullness and drowsiness that interfere with meditation.
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Restlessness and regret
Advice for dealing with restlessness and regret that interfere with meditation practice.
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Laziness and its antidotes
How laziness interferes with concentration and how to counteract it.
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Forgetting the object of meditation
The importance of knowing and remembering what topic we are meditating on at the beginning…
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Excitement and laxity; not applying and over-applyin...
The importance of introspective awareness in seeing laxity and excitement in the mind. What to…
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The mantra and purifying karma
How to say and feel the mantra in your body, and in the break time,…
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Freedom through imagination
How to imagine the light and nectar flowing from Tara as purifying negative karma, sickness…
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Determining to benefit others
Making a firm determination to do what is important—transforming our minds in order to benefit…
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