Sravasti Abbey

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 23-1: Lifting all beings from samsara

A walking meditation to remember bodhicitta, be more caring and mindful for the people around…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 22-1: Bodhicitta while walking

The welfare of sentient beings is transforming the mind into virtue and abandoning the afflictions.

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 21-4: Emptiness of mind

The clear light nature of the mind, transition from the sutra view to the tantric…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 21-3: Buddha nature

How buddha nature is described as the emptiness of the mind, and what that means.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Benefits of cultivating bodhicitta

Combining the two techniques for cultivating bodhicitta and the benefits of cultivating bodhicitta.

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 21-2: Seeing the buddha in others

Seeing sentient beings as buddhas, a way to control our negative mind but not taking…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Discussion: Mind-only school

A discussion session regarding uncompounded space, objects as reflections of mind, and cause and effect…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Generating bodhicitta

Equalizing and exchanging self and others and the seven-fold cause and effect relationship.

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