Sravasti Abbey
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Empathy and humor
The importance of offering empathy to ourselves and others to bring connection and ease of…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Meditation on the four immeasurables
A guided meditation on the four immeasurables—love, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
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The root of samsara
Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, explaining how different tenet systems describe what is the root…
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First-link ignorance
Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, explaining the specific scope of the first-link, ignorance and the…
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Applying karma to our lives
Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, applying karma to the recent trial and describing the Rice…
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Dependent arising
Completing Chapter 6, covering karma and instinctual behavior and commencing Chapter 7, describing the wheel…
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The importance of empathic listening
How listening is different from just hearing, and how we can cultivate the skill of…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Meditation on perceived threats and needs
A guided analytical meditation on working with perceived threats, and how to change how we…
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Karma and our environment
Continuing teaching from Chapter 6, covering the interaction between the mind and external world and…
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Khenpo Yeshi Lhundup Grasping at the four truths for aryas
How those who have not realized emptiness may mistakenly grasp the four truths to be…
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Proving the realization of emptiness
Proving hearers’ and solitary realizers’ cognition of the absence of inherent existence.
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Mind and the external world
Continuing teaching from Chapter 6, covering the evolution of the universe and the relationship between…
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