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Venerable Thubten Chodron Verse 33-4: The kindness of the Three Jewels
Contemplating the kindness of the Buddha and those who practiced and taught through the centuries…
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Verse 33-2: The kindness of others
Contemplating the kindness of other sentient beings by considering how we would not be alive…
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Cultivating conventional bodhicitta
Introduction to the section of the text that explains how to cultivate the conventional awakening…
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Verse 32-4: Aging gracefully
How attachment to the body—it's appearance and physical abilities— makes it so difficult to accept…
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Verse 32-1: Being free from illness
How the body, by its very nature, gets sick. The only way to avoid illness…
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Verse 31: Seeing someone suffering
How compassion differs from personal distress and how to cultivate compassion without falling to apathy.…
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Verse 30-2: The bliss of a buddha
The meaning of the term "the bliss of the Buddha." Considering the removal of the…
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Verse 30-1: Happiness
Cultivating dissatisfaction with samsara and striving to attain the happiness of the buddhas. How this…
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The disadvantages of cyclic existence: Part 2
In-depth teaching on the third through the sixth disadvantage of cyclic existence. This teaching completes…
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Reflecting on dukkha to fuel renunciation
How an awareness of dissatisfaction can fuel the practice, and how silence in retreat is…
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Verse 29: Dissatisfaction with samsara
Why bodhisattvas pray for all beings to become dissatisfied with worldly things. The proper type…
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