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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

How to see Tara

It is incorrect to project human qualities on Tara or see her as a theistic…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Seasons change

The seasons change, a vivid example of impermanence. Calling a day the first day of…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Lamrim meditation in Tara sadhana

Tara gives us inspiration while we're meditating during the sadhana. She is a representation of…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Tara as resultant refuge

It's encouraging to think of Tara as the Buddha that we are going to become.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Tara’s qualities

One way we can think of Tara is as the physical manifestation of a Buddha's…

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Seven-point Mind Training

The maxims of mind training

How the maxims can be used to transform mental states that contradict the mind training…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Motivation for the retreat

Generating the proper motivation for doing retreat and examining ways to work with the mind,…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Living within the five precepts

It is important to keep good ethical conduct while in retreat. Living according to the…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

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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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Practicing in a group retreat

The benefit to doing group retreat is the feeling of being part of a community…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Labeling thoughts and emotions

How can we identify and label thoughts and feelings in a constructive way? It's important…

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