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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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Concentration and wisdom

Interplay between mental factors and correlation to lamrim for developing meditative stabilization and wisdom.

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Appreciation and mindfulness

What is mindfulness and how it plays an important role in study, meditation and ethical…

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Attention and aspiration

The important characteristics of attention and aspiration mental factors.

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Buddha in bright radiating light.
LR10 Noble Eightfold Path

Right mindfulness

Examining the eightfold noble path through mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and phenomena.

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Buddha in bright radiating light.
LR14 Bodhisattva Deeds

Laxity and excitement

Examining laxity and excitement , one of the five hindrances to calm abiding meditation.

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Buddha in bright radiating light.
LR14 Bodhisattva Deeds

Calm abiding review

A review on how to choose the object of meditation and how to cultivate mindfulness…

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Buddha in bright radiating light.
LR14 Bodhisattva Deeds

Forgetting the object of meditation

Forgetting the object of meditation as an obstacle to calm abiding and mindfulness as its…

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Buddha in bright radiating light.
LR14 Bodhisattva Deeds

Preparing for calm abiding meditation

Establishing the six conducive conditions for calm abiding meditation and advice on doing retreat.

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Many statutes of bodhisattvas.
LR13 Bodhisattva Ethical Restraints

Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vow 23-30

Overcoming obstacles to the far-reaching attitudes of joyous effort, concentration, and wisdom.

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Many statutes of bodhisattvas.
LR13 Bodhisattva Ethical Restraints

Auxiliary bodhisattva vows: Vows 1-5

Introduction to the 46 auxiliary bodhisattva vows and an in-depth look at the first five…

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