Meditation

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Parting from the Four Clingings

Parting from the Four Clingings

Verses describing what to practice and what to abandon along the path to awakening.

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Guided Meditations

Why do we lie?

Reflecting on the actions and mental states that drive us to distort the truth, and…

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Guided Meditations

Beyond blame

How to move beyond blaming others and ourselves, and how an understanding of causal dependence…

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Guided Meditations

What is karma?

A meditation for the Daily Dharma Gathering on the four general characteristics of karma.

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Deity Meditation

Meditation on the Buddha in Spanish

Introduction Introduction in Spanish (download) Meditation on the Buddha Meditation on the Buddha in Spanish…

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Guided Meditations

Meditation on forgiveness

A third and final meditation for the Daily Dharma Gathering on how to cultivate internal…

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015

Our two-year-old mind

How to work with the self-centered mind that creeps up on us in the middle…

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Manjushri Winter Retreat 2015

The four maras

Explaining the four maras that Yamantaka destroys: the afflictions, polluted aggregates, death, and the son…

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Guided Meditations

Friends, enemies and strangers

A guided meditation on cultivating equanimity as a way of getting off the emotional roller-coaster…

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Making Offerings

The privilege of making offerings

How to think while making offerings and the meaning of making the eight offerings to…

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Guided Meditations

Freeing yourself from jealousy

A meditation on working with jealousy on the Daily Dharma Gathering hosted by Susan Piver…

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