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Scriptures taught by the Buddha describing the Vajrayana practice. A means to becoming a fully awakened Buddha through identity with meditational deities.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 15-23
Looking at various karmic results and the actions and attitudes that caused them.
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama Practical peace and contentment
His Holiness the Dalai Lama's foreword to 'Taming the Mind,' a "practical application of the…
View Post Antidotes to the habit of complaining
Advice on taming bad habits and cultivating good, such as nurturing antidotes to our tendency…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 92-94
Making clear aspirations and determinations about how we want to live our lives. How our…
View Post Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 90-91
Watching our tendency to do the opposite of what our teachers instruct, becoming willing to…
View Post Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 86-89
Verses covering the importance of focused study to support meditation, reliance on a teacher, working…
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Medicine Buddha vows 9-12
Reflecting on how the vows are relevant to how we choose to act. Skillful ways…
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Discussion on the difficulty of women's situation in society, extending to people in weaker positions.…
View Post Medicine Buddha vows 5-7
Explaining what it means to keep good ethical discipline, and having compassion for others' suffering.
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A commentary on wrong views in society created to justify our own negative qualities.
View Post Medicine Buddha vows 1-3
Explaining the first three of the 12 vows of the Medicine Buddha. Putting our energies…
View Post Contemplating the Medicine Buddha vows
How thinking about the bodhisattvas' promise to benefit sentient beings puts our mind into their…
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