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Venerable Thubten Chodron 37 Practices: Verses 4-6
Verses describing the miseries of samsara, the importance of thinking about beginningless lives, giving up…
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Lama Tsongkhapa’s kindness
How Je Rinpoche brought immense benefit through his teachings on emptiness and lamrim, and how…
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Profound view
How wisdom and compassion support each other. Ten ways to practice mindfulness of emptiness. When…
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Renunciation and bodhicitta
We can end our grasping at the illusory happiness of our lives and learn to…
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Physical prison versus samsaric prison
Watching the mind's reaction to food. Looking at attachment, seeing where it leads us. Examining…
View Post Create karma, accumulate merit, apply antidote
Working on concepts of karma, emptiness, attachment in the retreat. An analytical meditation of what…
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Incarcerated people Personal demons
It´s not easy to replace old thoughts about oneself and to accept full responsibility for…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 38-42
A look at the karmic causes of difficulties in our practice or difficulties overcoming the…
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An introduction to the lojong teachings and a brief overview of the Buddhist worldview as…
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Beliefs turned on their head
An incarcerated person finds that his attachment to the traditional cultural beliefs he grew up…
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The disadvantages of self-centeredness
The self-centered mind is one of the chief obstacles to our attaining liberation and enlightenment.
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The great resolve and bodhicitta
The decision we make in our Dharma practice to benefit all sentient beings is a…
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