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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 10-2: Counteracting the defilements

The different ways of counteracting the defilements, particularly the afflictions. The importance of not just…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 10-1: The fuel of the passions

How we ignorantly grasp at the afflictions, the importance of recognizing how we exaggerate, and…

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Essence of Refined Gold

Cultivating the correct view

An in-depth look at how we apprehend objects, including the self, and how we can…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verses review: The Buddhist view

The importance of making our lives more meaningful, not taking our lives for granted, and…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 8: The seat of enlightenment

Reaffirming our bodhicitta when sitting down, wishing that all beings come to the place in…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 7: Secured by the root of virtue

How the virtue we create secures us for good rebirths, liberation, and in this very…

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Purple flowers blossom in a bunch.
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 6-2: Consideration for others

Abandoning negativities out of care, affection, consideration, and an awareness of how our actions impact…

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Purple flowers blossom in a bunch.
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 6-1: Robes of integrity

Seeing an opportunity for non-virtue but restraining ourselves because of a sense of our own…

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Purple flowers blossom in a bunch.
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 5-2: Creating the causes

The importance of cultivating the two sides of the path, method and wisdom, just as…

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