Thubten Chodron
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Venerable Sonam Yeshe - Dec 11, 2008
Venerable Sonam Yeshe Some thoughts after ordination
Rejoice in choosing monastic life as the best way to achieve happiness.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Understanding reality
Venerable Thubten Chodron explores conventional and ultimate reality within the context of her mother’s recent…
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Verse 26-2: Filling containers
The importance of generating our motivation before doing an action to make even neutral actions…
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Verse 26-1: Filled with good qualities
Seeing filled containers with a generous mind and wishing good qualities for others.
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Verse 25-2: Ascetic practices
A description and the purposes of 12 ascetic practices that the Buddha allowed.
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Holding others dear
How to counteract the judgmental mind that over-emphasizes the faults of others.
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The welfare of all beings
What it means to work for the wellbeing and happiness of all sentient beings. Seeing…
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The shaper of our life and death
An understanding of karma changes how we choose to live our lives.
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The reality of our existence
Seeing that there is no freedom when we take rebirth under ignorance, afflictions, and karma.…
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Verse 25-1: Without ornaments
A practice to transform whatever we encounter, so that it’s not related to ego.
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Verse 24-2: Marks of a buddha
Explaining the origin and significance of the signs and marks of the Buddha.
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Contemplating death
Contemplating death helps us establish healthy relationships with our friends, our possessions, and our body.
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