mindfulness

Teachings on mindfulness, a mental factor that enables the mind to stay on its chosen object. These include teachings on mindfulness in developing concentration and keeping ethical conduct.

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Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2011-12

The power of regret: Our motivations

Examining our motivations through mindfulness and introspective awareness helps generate regret.

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2011

The nine mental abidings

Showing how one progressively develops deeper and more subtle concentration to meditative stabilization.

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2011

The five faults and eight antidotes

Explanation of Maitreya's teaching on cultivating serenity through overcoming the obstacles.

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Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2011

Mindfulness and introspective awareness

A teaching on the three higher trainings from subtle to gross levels. Explaining the two…

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Portrait of a angry child
Young Adults Explore Buddhism 2011

Anger in the moment

The afflictions are not the nature of the mind. Anger is just a moment, and…

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A paper with the wordings: In the end, only kindness matters, stick on window with raindrops.
Young Adults Explore Buddhism 2011

The kindness of others

Seeing kindness and repaying with a genuine wish to benefit. Give and let the giving…

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Statue near a pond of a Buddha meditating.
Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions

Dealing with anxiety

Anxiety can be ameliorated through meditation and kindness towards self and others.

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Sunlight streaming through the tress onto a snowy path in the woods
On Mindfulness

A chosen life

What if a person who looks different could impart life-changing wisdom. Open one's heart and…

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Woman with palms together.
On Cultivating Virtue

Serving one’s spiritual mentor

How a Dharma student’s motivation was strengthened by offering service to her teacher.

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Times Square
On Attachment

Circus

The overwhelming effect of social media and technology, making one's daily life feel like a…

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