Thubten Chodron
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Mindfulness and compassion
An introduction to mindfulness and how practicing it can benefit our environment and others around…
View PostMaking friends with ourselves
Discovering our Buddha potential by investigating the source of lasting happiness and cultivating the heart…
View PostPracticing in the face of cancer
A student shares how she practiced the Dharma while going through chemotherapy for leukemia and…
View PostWestern monastic life
Monastics from different traditions practicing in the West discuss aspects of training, precepts, community life,…
View PostFeelings that arise while doing purification
The second of three talks on the practice of prostrations to the 35 buddhas offers…
View PostThree ways to see bodhicitta in terms of dependent a...
How to use the understanding of dependence on causes and conditions, parts and mental labeling…
View PostMeditating on three types of compassion
Importance of persisting through hearing, thinking, and meditating until we see and feel how our…
View PostHow things exist
How understanding things exist dependently provides us freedom to act without afflictions and cultivate compassion.
View Post108 Verses: Verse 9
Generating compassion by seeing things as not inherently existing and changing how we act with…
View PostEqual opportunity for nuns
Interview with Buddhist nun Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on her work to raise the self-esteem of…
View Post108 Verses: Verse 8
How understanding impermanence helps us view the true nature of self and develop a long…
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