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Venerable Thubten Chodron Practical ethics: Part 1
A reading and commentary from the book "Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness."
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Thought consciousnesses and direct perceivers
Continuing to teach Chapter Three, on thought consciousnesses and direct perceivers.
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Being human: Not seeing the world as us and them
Cultivating the mind that sees all sentient beings as equal and how this benefits ourselves…
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Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions
How we can work over time to replace troublesome thoughts and emotions with more compassionate…
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Antidote for multiple mood swings in a day
Comparing the changes of the weather to our mood swings.
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Mind and emotions
Beginning Chapter 3: Mind and Emotions, exploring the relationship between unhappiness and non-virtue.
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Proving mutual inclusion
Explaining how to prove mutual inclusion, and leading the class in doing Exercises 11.1 and…
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How to recognize or identify our afflictions
How the body and mind give us clues when afflictions are at play.
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How intoxicants affect mindfulness and introspective...
Bringing our attention to the role of intoxicants in the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh.
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Afflictions arise with a happy or angry mind
Encouraging us to be mindful of the afflictions playing in the background of our mind.
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The possibility of ending duhkha
Covering the sections "Dependent Arising and the Three Jewels" and "The Possibility of Ending Duhkha."
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Holding others as supreme
The second verse of the "Eight Verses of Thought Transformation," in connection with the developments…
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