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A couple's hands together.
Family and Friends

A Buddhist marriage blessing

Practices that couples getting married can do to make merit and share their deepest aspirations…

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Concentration and wisdom

Interplay between mental factors and correlation to lamrim for developing meditative stabilization and wisdom.

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Cesara, a guest at the Abbey, emptying water bowls.
Refuge in the Three Jewels

Purifying for refuge practice

Why purification is necessary; practices for taking refuge in spiritual mentors, the Buddhas, the Dharma,…

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Appreciation and mindfulness

What is mindfulness and how it plays an important role in study, meditation and ethical…

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Attention and aspiration

The important characteristics of attention and aspiration mental factors.

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Feelings

The importance of paying more attention to the sensations of an experience than the feelings…

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Travels

A second pilgrimage in China

Two weeks of travel in China followed by two weeks of retreat and teachings with…

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Interfaith Dialogue

The value of a disciplined way of life

Buddha's monastic precepts and their similarities to the Christian practice.

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Buddha in bright radiating light.
LR10 Noble Eightfold Path

Right effort, view, and thought

Concluding the teachings on the the eightfold noble path by looking at right effort, right…

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