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Venerable Thubten Chodron Working with unfulfilled expectations
How we set ourselves up for disappointment through our expectations, and how we can find…
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Working with Buddhists behind bars
Overcoming fear and the judgmental mind to reach sentient beings in prison.
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Incarcerated people Who’s poisoning me?
A person in prison speaks about his addictions and a brush with death.
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Karma and your life
The meaning of karma and how to go about creating future happiness by mindfully cultivating…
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How to develop wisdom
Learning about karma and practicing meditation deepens our understanding of the nature of reality.
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The Dalai Lama on prison life
His Holiness talks about how to generate compassion for incarcerated people and the need for…
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Zopa Herron A prison visit following the killing of an incarcera...
Incarcerated people's faith in dharma and their dedication to practice.
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Taking and giving
The taking and giving meditation, or tonglen, reverses our usual attitude of placing ourselves first…
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Exchanging self and others
When we learn to place others' happiness above our own, we start to destroy the…
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Disintegratedness of actions and rebirth
How karmic seeds and the disintegratedness of actions go from one life to the next…
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The advantages of cherishing others
Our own enlightenment is dependent on each and every sentient being. When we abandon the…
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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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