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Venerable Thubten Chodron Tara’s qualities
One way we can think of Tara is as the physical manifestation of a Buddha's…
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How to relate to the deity
How do we relate to Tara? We may find it inspiring to view Tara as…
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Motivation for the retreat
Generating the proper motivation for doing retreat and examining ways to work with the mind,…
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Living within the five precepts
It is important to keep good ethical conduct while in retreat. Living according to the…
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What it means to do retreat
We have to understand what retreat means. We are retreating from dukkha, from suffering, not…
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Practicing in a group retreat
The benefit to doing group retreat is the feeling of being part of a community…
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Labeling thoughts and emotions
How can we identify and label thoughts and feelings in a constructive way? It's important…
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Attachment to samadhi
The importance of seeing all realms of cyclic existence, even the upper realms, as unsatisfactory.
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The six sufferings of sentient beings
The uncertainty and unsatisfactoriness of cyclic existence.
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The dukkha of uncertainty
The types of dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) that are pervasive in all the realms of samsara.
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The eight disadvantages of cyclic existence
The sufferings of separation from what we like and being under the control of afflictions…
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Birth, aging, and sickness
Looking at birth, aging, and sickness, in a more realistic way, contemplating them in order…
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