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Venerable Thubten Chodron The truth of dukkha
Understanding dukkha helps us to cultivate the wish to be free from it.
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The mind and renunciation
The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…
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Introduction
Introductory teaching on the life history of Nagarjuna, cyclic existence, karma, bodhicitta, and the meaning…
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Instruction videos on prostrations
Instructions and demonstration on how to make prostrations.
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Chapter 2: Verses 40-65
The importance of keeping an awareness of death in order to focus our minds, consider…
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Chapter 2: Verses 24-39
Looking at what makes life meaningful followed by a continuation of the text. These verses…
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Chapter 2: Verses 7-23
Examining our motivations, considering why we face the same problems repeatedly, and the antidotes to…
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Chapter 2: Verses 1-6
The first verses of Chapter 2 describe the Three Jewels of refuge and how and…
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Mindfulness and compassion
An introduction to mindfulness and how practicing it can benefit our environment and others around…
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Three ways to see bodhicitta in terms of dependent a...
How to use the understanding of dependence on causes and conditions, parts and mental labeling…
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Vesak and the Buddha’s life
The story behind Vesak, the holiest day of the year for Buddhists, and how we…
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Rebirth, karma and emptiness
The relationship between the body and mind according to the Buddhist worldview, and an introduction…
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