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Heather Mack Duchscher Dropping our garbage
Shares insights from working with pain, illness, and purification during Vajrasattva retreat.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Ethical conduct in the workplace
Response to a retreatant from afar who wrote in with a question about having to…
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Chapter 8: Verses 188-190
A student must be prepared for the teachings on emptiness in order to understand the…
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Stories about Lama Yeshe
Shares some of the pithy teachings by Lama Yeshe and ties them in with a…
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Working with sexual energy
Responds to the question of how to deal with sexual energy in our spiritual practice.
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How samsara evolves
Shares how, on the basis of our ignorance misapprehending the nature of reality, our mind…
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Chapter 8: Verses 184-187
An explanation of how emptiness does not mean non-existence, and the problems with being attached…
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Karma, formative action, and volitional factors
Deciphers the difference between Dharma terms related to karma and illuminates how this understanding is…
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The meaning of karma
Clarifies what the often misused word "karma" means in a Buddhist context.
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Contemplating causality
It is helpful to contemplate whether your beliefs and views about who you are and…
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Contemplating causality
Encourages us to contemplate whether our beliefs and views about who we are and events…
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Chapter 8: Verses 183-184
Misconceptions regarding how cyclic existence comes into existence and the importance of understanding this. Explaining…
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