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Dismantling personal identity
Examining how our mind puts parts together through a conceptual process and see the object…
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Subtle mind and wind in tantra
What appears to the mind during meditation on emptiness in tantric practice?
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Awareness of emptiness
The awareness of emptiness achieved during meditation can be strengthened by developing our concentration.
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Distrust of false appearances
When we meditate on emptiness and begin to distrust the false appearance of inherent existence,…
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Visualizing the object of meditation
How to visualize Tara during concentration, or shamatha, meditation, both front-generation and self-generation.
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Fortitude and joyous effort
The importance of enthusiasm and perseverance in retreat and practice. Change comes slowly, but it…
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Commentary on a request to Tara
The qualities we need to cultivate so that everyone whom we come into contact with…
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Why Buddha is a reliable refuge
Why the Buddha is a reliable refuge and the benefit of deepening one's sense of…
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Cultivating contentment
How to practice contentment. Letting go of craving and seeing that what we have is…
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Being dispassionate toward perception
The benefit of being dispassionate toward sense pleasures and material things.
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Fearlessness and refuge
The Buddha cannot remove our fears for us but has provided the road map that…
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Stressed out
Examining the mind when feeling stressed out: working with the mind and one's circumstances.
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