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Applying the teachings
Discussion: working with the mind, skillful ways of using refuge. Reflection on why we are…
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Sharing challenges of practice
Questions from retreatants on dealing with distraction and habitual reactions. Working with dreams in a…
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Three kinds of ethical conduct
Discussion of the characteristics of far-reaching ethical conduct: abandoning destructive actions, engaging in constructive actions,…
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Buddha nature and precious human life
Seeing our potential and the conducive circumstances we have to actualize it.
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Refuge and precepts ceremony
Teachings on taking the five lay precepts with or without celibacy and the eight precepts…
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Sufferings of cyclic existence
A realistic look at the defects of cyclic existence and the determination to be free.
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Bhikshuni vinaya and ordination lineages
A summary report by Alex Berzin of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role…
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Setting a good motivation for surgery
A student shares how setting a strong virtuous motivation transformed her experience of undergoing brain…
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Owning up, but with hope
An incarcerated person talks about the changes he has made in his life since being…
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