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Venerable Thubten Chodron Cultivating Amitabha’s attitude
Bringing the mind in line with Amitabha's way of thinking means cultivating an attitude that…
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The three baskets
Finishing Chapter 4 by describing the differences in content of the three baskets, or tripitaka,…
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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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Tantra and Buddhist canons
Briefly covering tantra and beginning a section on the content of the three extant Buddhist…
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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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The four seals of Buddhism: The first seal
How understanding the first seal of Buddhism, that all conditioned phenomena are impermanent, is a…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Mind-generation with Venerable Sangye Khadro, Part 2
Venerable Sangye Khadro finishes teaching on the different kinds of bodhicitta explained in Maitreya's "Ornament…
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Being human: Not seeing the world as us and them
Cultivating the mind that sees all sentient beings as equal and how this benefits ourselves…
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Mind-generation with Venerable Sangye Khadro, Part 1
Venerable Sangye Khadro teaches on the different kinds of bodhicitta explained in Maitreya's "Ornament of…
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The joy of serving sentient beings
How compassion and benefiting others benefits ourselves and others now and in the future. Reflections…
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