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Venerable Thubten Chodron Generating wealth
The antidote to feeling poor is generosity, might it be in material or in immaterial…
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Verse 8: The prison of personal entanglements
Attachment to loved ones and friends creates suffering that distracts us from our spiritual aspirations.
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Verse 7: The enemies of happiness and prosperity
Afflictive emotions like miserliness and anger only bring us misery, though we think they'll bring…
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Developing calm abiding
How keeping precepts helps one's meditation practice and helps in living a happier life.
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Verse 6: The mischievous slanderer, jealousy
Unable to bear the happiness of others, jealousy causes us to harm those who try…
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Verse 5: The wild horse of pride
Pride can be a stumbling block on the path, stunting our spiritual progress.
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Verse 4: The darkness of ignorance
Ignorance of how things exist and ignorance of karma and its effects are like dark…
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Verse 3: The fire of anger
Clinging attachment leads to anger and suffering when our high expectations are not met. How…
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Verse 2: Attachment to sense pleasures
Our insatiable craving for sense objects is the source of our suffering.
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Verse 1: The realms of samsara
Why is it so hard to break free from the realms of cyclic existence? It's…
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Prologue: Praise to Guru Manjushri
Homage and praise to spiritual mentors and how they help us along the path begins…
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Sravasti Abbey’s first kathina ceremony
The kathina robe ceremony to celebrate the end of the rains retreat (varsa) and the…
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