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Venerable Thubten Chodron Helping each other feel safe
How to identify when we do or do not feel safe, how to cultivate a…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Meditation on metta and safety
A guided analytical meditation on loving-kindness or metta, focusing on offering safety to friends, enemies…
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Clusters of afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 3, continuing with the auxiliary afflictions, describing those derived from ignorance and…
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Giving our body and the Dharma
Discussing how to skillfully give our body and the Dharma for the benefit of ourselves…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Know your mind: Seven types of mind and awareness
Explanation of the remaining five of the seven types of mind and the progression from…
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Know your mind: Direct perceivers and inferential co...
An explanation of the first two of the seven types of mind – direct perceivers…
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Know your mind: Perception and conception
The conditions that lead to a conceptual mind. The division of minds into perception and…
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Know your mind: What is the mind?
Why it’s important to understand the mind, the mind and happiness and suffering, the nature…
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Auxiliary afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining the auxiliary afflictions in the Sanskrit tradition, covering the afflictions…
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Joyfully engaging in virtue
Discussing ways to think, speak and act in order to joyfully create virtue in the…
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“Courageous Compassion”: Reading and com...
How to develop true compassion in order to benefit all sentient beings, no self-centered strings…
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Meditation on loving-kindness
A guided meditation to cultivate a feeling of loving-kindness for ourselves and others, to make…
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