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Venerable Thubten Chodron What is retreat?
Valuable advice for doing retreat—working with the mind, with pain, how to visualize, how to…
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Who is White Tara?
As an introduction to retreat, an explanation of who White Tara is and what she…
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Feelings dominate our reactivity
Dominated by reactivity to our feelings, we cling to desirable objects and cling to wrong…
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How feelings create dukkha
Becoming aware of how our lives revolve around feelings of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral helps…
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Antidotes to desire
Meditating on the body as a skeleton as an antidote to desire, and looking at…
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a sadhana of the tradition - Sep 19, 2010
White Tara deity sadhana with guided meditation
White Tara sadhana with guided meditation and audio recordings of the mantras.
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Mindfulness of the body
The specific characteristics of the body, the benefits of meditating on the body, and how…
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The two manners of meditation
How we grasp at the four observed objects: body, feelings, mind and phenomena. The common…
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Learning from death
Preparing for death through our Dharma practices, and the remaining hindrances to concentration and their…
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Hindrances to concentration
A teaching on three of the five hindrances and applying their antidotes.
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Six conditions for retreat
Explanation of the necessary external and internal factors to be familiar with in preparation for…
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Practices before serenity meditation
Explaining the practices to make the body and mind relaxed. Further details on visualization of…
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