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Venerable Thubten Chodron Is the Buddha’s word always spoken by the Buddha?
Three sections in Chapter 5, including proving that the Mahayana sutras are the words of…
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The seven jewels of the aryas: Personal integrity
How to increase your integrity and consideration for others, considering what kind of person we…
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Interview with Shide Nunnery
An interview with Venerable Chodron with nuns from Shide Nunnery in Germany about the mindful…
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The emptiness of identities and nonvirtue
The emptiness of identities and nonvirtues, and how this provides the key to purification.
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The power of determination
The power of determination, examining how to create the external and internal conditions to support…
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Letting go of identities
Meditation on breaking down identities and discussion about how we can move beyond restrictive identities…
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Social action and interfaith dialogue
Ways in which we can put our meditations on equanimity into practice to benefit others.
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Supporting the Dharma practitioner
There is merit in supporting the Dharma practitioner, but we also need to practice the…
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Heather Mack Duchscher 
Why monastics matter in the modern world
Venerable Thubten Chodron explains how the role of monastics today is not much different than…
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The second nonvirtue of speech: Divisive speech (par...
Divisive speech often arises in the workplace, when a group of people gets together to…
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