41 Prayers to Cultivate Bodhicitta (2008-09)
Short talks on "41 Prayers to Cultivate Bodhicitta" from the Flower Ornament Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra).
Verse 17-5: Value of keeping precepts
Venerable Thubten Chodron Fourth way of gathering followers in order to teach them the Dharma: to act in accordance with what you teach.
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Verse 18: The exalted path
Generating positive aspirations for all sentient beings when setting out walking on a path.
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Verse 19-1: The upper realms
How a precious human life gives us just enough comfort and just enough suffering to be ideal for practicing the Dharma.
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Verse 19-2: Precious human life
Not every human life is a precious human life. Considering living beings who are so close to, and yet so far away from, the Dharma.
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Verse 19-3: Bodhisattva practices
The importance of aiming for a precious human life, even if that's not our long-term goal.
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Verse 19-4: Antidote to depression
How meditating on precious human life results in constant awareness of how fortunate we are, and is a very good antidote to depression.
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Verse 20-1: Going downhill
The importance of preventing sentient beings, and ourselves, from being born in the lower realms.
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Verse 20-2: The lower realms
A description of the lower realms, and whether they are actual places or just states of mind. Clarifying the lower realms according to the Buddhist…
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Verse 20-3: Creating the causes
A meditation practice of reasoning with the angry mind to drop the anger. Considering that our actions create our future experience.
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Verse 21-1: On meeting others
Seeing the buddha potential in others transforms how we feel about them.
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Verse 21-2: Seeing the buddha in others
Seeing sentient beings as buddhas, a way to control our negative mind but not taking everything literally, use our wisdom in conventional situations.
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Verse 21-3: Buddha nature
How buddha nature is described as the emptiness of the mind, and what that means.
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