Sravasti Abbey
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Verses after lunch
Dedicating the merit for our food offering, wishing for all beings to be happy and…
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Verses before meals
Pausing before meals and reflecting on the kindness of those who provide our food helps…
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Cleansing the mind of ignorance
How wisdom can overpower ignorance and eliminate it, but it cannot get rid of our…
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Conventional and clear light mind
A teaching on the reasons why the afflictions can be eliminated, that the mind is…
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Obstructions to the clear and knowing mind
How and why liberation is possible by seeing that the basic nature of the mind…
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Venerable Thubten Chonyi An interview with a newly ordained monastic
Venerable Thubten Chonyi talks candidly to Awaken magazine of her decision to follow the monastic…
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Attachment to samadhi
The importance of seeing all realms of cyclic existence, even the upper realms, as unsatisfactory.
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The six sufferings of sentient beings
The uncertainty and unsatisfactoriness of cyclic existence.
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The dukkha of uncertainty
The types of dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) that are pervasive in all the realms of samsara.
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The eight disadvantages of cyclic existence
The sufferings of separation from what we like and being under the control of afflictions…
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Birth, aging, and sickness
Looking at birth, aging, and sickness, in a more realistic way, contemplating them in order…
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