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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The source of happiness and misery
How to apply the teachings to our lives in a practical way.
View PostColleagues and clients
Bringing our practice into the workplace to transform habitual ways of relating to others.
View PostThe middle way
Thoughts on the importance of taking responsibility for one's own experiences. We are not victims…
View PostAn inherently existent self
How to investigate if the self is inherently different from the aggregates and steps in…
View PostThe self and the aggregates
Selflessness of persons: how to investigate if the self is inherently one with the aggregates.
View PostReview: Object of negation
A review of the commentary on identifying the object of negation: the reasoning used to…
View PostEstablishing selflessness
Three mistaken approaches to determining selflessness and the order for establishing selflessness.
View PostThe root of samsara
How things and self are merely imputed by thought and how ignorance is the root…
View PostReview: Teachings on emptiness
A review of the beginning of the section on cultivating ultimate bodhicitta: creating the causes…
View PostJoy and courage
Continuing the discussion on joy and courage, and a discussion on verses about love and…
View PostTransforming depression and anxiety
Recognizing how thoughts fuel emotions, how happiness and suffering originate within the mind, and cultivating…
View PostReview: Bodhicitta and the afflictions
A review of the end of the section on cultivating conventional bodhicitta and the meaning…
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