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Cheri - Aug 25, 2021
Cheri Using the Dharma to manage an unpredictable illness
A students uses her Dharma practice to face adversity, and then uses that same adversity…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The value of monastic life and communities in the 21...
In modern Western society, monastics support their communities in part by acting as the conscience…
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Kinds of duhkha
Continuing the teachings from Chapter 2, explaining eight unsatisfactory conditions and describing characteristics of true…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Researching the bhikshuni lineage
Can the bhikshuni ordination be traced back to the time of the Buddha? Bhikshuni Sangye…
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Buddhism, modernism and mindfulness
A discussion on topics including Buddhist and secular mindfulness, the value of monasticism, and the…
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Emptiness and conceptual designation
Applying emptiness to view events the events of 2020 including the pandemic. The four opponent…
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Preservation of Tibet’s culture and environment
Among His Holiness' principal commitments is to preserve Tibetan culture and to protect the environment.…
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Connecting with compassion
The importance of having compassionate individuals in our lives, who can inspire our own practice…
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Meditation on giving your body away
A guided meditation on thought transformation in which we dedicate the four elements of our…
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Lethargy, sleepiness, restlessness, remorse
The third and fourth hindrance to developing concentration: lethargy and sleepiness, and restlessness and remorse.
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The universal antidote
How things don't exist the way they appear, and the importance of practicing diligently, as…
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Eight worldly concerns
Questioning and investigating what society says is normal and acceptable.
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