Green Tara Winter Retreat (2009-10)
Short talks on the Green Tara practice given during the Green Tara Winter Retreat at Sravasti Abbey from December 2009 to March 2010.
Commentary on a request to Tara
Venerable Thubten Chonyi The qualities we need to cultivate so that everyone whom we come into contact with is immediately freed from suffering.
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Fortitude and joyous effort
Venerable Thubten Chodron The importance of enthusiasm and perseverance in retreat and practice. Change comes slowly, but it does come.
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Visualizing the object of meditation
How to visualize Tara during concentration, or shamatha, meditation, both front-generation and self-generation.
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Distrust of false appearances
When we meditate on emptiness and begin to distrust the false appearance of inherent existence, it does not mean we lose compassion for other sentient…
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Awareness of emptiness
The awareness of emptiness achieved during meditation can be strengthened by developing our concentration.
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Subtle mind and wind in tantra
What appears to the mind during meditation on emptiness in tantric practice?
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Dismantling personal identity
Examining how our mind puts parts together through a conceptual process and see the object as existing from it own side.
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Dependent arising: Causal dependence
Meditation on causal dependence as a way of becoming familiar with the concept of dependent arising.
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Dependent arising: Dependence on parts
Meditation on the dependence of parts as a way of becoming familiar with the concept of dependent arising.
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Working with the Tara sadhana
How to personalize the sadhana—and your meditation sessions—keeping it fresh during retreat.
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Causal dependence and karma
Understanding karma as related to the concept of causal dependence.
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Dependent arising: Dependent designation
The concept of dependent arising can be examined by meditating on dependent designation, or the dependence of phenomena on being merely labeled.
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