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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Venerable Thubten Chodron Verse 32-2: Working with sickness
How to work with the mind when we are sick and transform illness into the…
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Verse 32-1: Being free from illness
How the body, by its very nature, gets sick. The only way to avoid illness…
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Verse 31: Seeing someone suffering
How compassion differs from personal distress and how to cultivate compassion without falling to apathy.…
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Verse 30-2: The bliss of a buddha
The meaning of the term "the bliss of the Buddha." Considering the removal of the…
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Verse 30-1: Happiness
Cultivating dissatisfaction with samsara and striving to attain the happiness of the buddhas. How this…
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The disadvantages of cyclic existence: Part 2
In-depth teaching on the third through the sixth disadvantage of cyclic existence. This teaching completes…
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Verse 29: Dissatisfaction with samsara
Why bodhisattvas pray for all beings to become dissatisfied with worldly things. The proper type…
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Verse 28: Joy in the teachings
Benefiting ourselves by taking joy in others' good qualities, and especially rejoicing at others' joy…
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Verse 27: Empty containers
Transforming the appearance of an empty container into the wish that all beings be empty…
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Verse 26-3: Reducing jealousy and anger
Reducing anger and jealousy by imagining all other sentient beings being filled with good qualities.
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The disadvantages of cyclic existence: Part 1
Introduction to the fourth preliminary practice, the six disadvantages of cyclic existence, with an in-depth…
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Karma, samsara, and dukkha
A comprehensive teaching on the intricate interplay of karma and its myriad manifestations of results.…
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