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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Sravasti Abbey Monastics Keeping a vast, expansive mind
How changing our perspective and "looking up" can reveal boundless possibilities.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Transforming problems and anger
More ways to transform problems and four steps to face current challenges.
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Problems aren’t necessarily bad
How to transform our perspective on problems and practical ways to work with them.
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Four truths of the Aryas
The Four Truths of Noble ones, rebirth and reincarnation and Buddhist views on happiness and…
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Mind is the source of happiness and suffering
Explaining the Buddhist view on how our mind shapes our experiences of suffering and happiness.
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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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