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Essential Spiritual Advice

Mindfulness of ethical conduct

How ethical conduct affects not only our spiritual practice but others' faith as well.

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Thought Training

Transforming the Complaining Mind

Venerable Chodron shows us how to change our thought using a personal example.

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Working with Emotions

Conventional and ultimate recovery

Therapy, as in a 12-step program, can bring about conventional healing, while Dharma practice brings…

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Working with Emotions

Visualization and purification

We need a combination of the awakening activities of the Buddhas and our own effort…

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Working with Emotions

Re-writing the 12 steps, 8-12

Finishing up re-writing the 12 steps, how purification and confession fit in, and getting in…

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Working with Emotions

Re-writing the 12 steps, 1-7

How to rely on refuge in the Three Jewels, our inner wisdom and compassion, and…

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Working with Emotions

Making requests and self-reliance

We request the Buddha's for inspiration along the path, but we must do the work…

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Working with Emotions

Making our minds receptive to the Dharma

Prayer in Buddhism is a collaborative effort. What we are doing when asking the Buddhas…

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Working with Emotions

The purpose of a spiritual mentor

How we may adapt a 12-step recovery program with Buddhist views on self-reliance for our…

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Four Establishments of Mindfulness Retreat

Mindfulness and lamrim meditation

How the four establishments of mindfulness practice fits with the Stages of the Path to…

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Making Offerings

Taking down offerings

The third of three talks about how to set up an altar at home covers…

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