thought transformation
Teachings on lojong or thought training techniques to train the mind to turn difficult circumstances into opportunities for spiritual growth and awakening.
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Cheri Langston Mind training in adverse circumstances
How to apply the Dharma to turn your mind when suffering from illness.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Overcoming self-centeredness
Investigating the way self-centeredness causes problems and how to overcome it.
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Suffering is a result of how we think
How seeing the world through the eyes of a victim make us unhappy.
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Commitments and instructions of mind training
The measure of having transformed one’s thoughts, the commitments of thought training, and instructions of…
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The five powers in life and death
Changing adverse circumstances into the path and elucidating a lifetime’s practice.
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Bodhicitta and working with adversity
Conventional bodhicitta and how it helps us in this time of the five degenerations.
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The preliminaries & ultimate bodhichitta
Introduction to the "Seven-point Mind Training" by Geshe Chekawa and the first two points.
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Chapter 8: Verses 21-36
Cultivating seclusion and detachment in order to practice the Dharma.
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The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
How to apply the thought training verses to develop a beneficial attitude.
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Changing how we view ourselves and others
Taking a more compete view of others by changing our perspective.
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Transforming adverse circumstances
How the mind training teachings challenge our self-centered thought and help us to uproot it.
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