Meditation

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Bodhicitta motivation

The bodhicitta motivation is crucial to our practice. Self-centered thinking limits us and holds us…

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Taking refuge

What does it mean to take refuge in the Three Jewels, and why we do…

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Statue of White Tara.
White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

What is retreat?

Valuable advice for doing retreat—working with the mind, with pain, how to visualize, how to…

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Who is White Tara?

As an introduction to retreat, an explanation of who White Tara is and what she…

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A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness

Feelings dominate our reactivity

Dominated by reactivity to our feelings, we cling to desirable objects and cling to wrong…

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A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness

How feelings create dukkha

Becoming aware of how our lives revolve around feelings of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral helps…

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An image of white tara.
White Tara

White Tara deity sadhana with guided meditation

White Tara sadhana with guided meditation and audio recordings of the mantras.

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A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness

Mindfulness of the body

The specific characteristics of the body, the benefits of meditating on the body, and how…

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A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness

The two manners of meditation

How we grasp at the four observed objects: body, feelings, mind and phenomena. The common…

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