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Buddhist Worldview

Seeing ourselves as we really are

How to develop a beneficial and realistic view of ourselves and others.

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 22-1: Bodhicitta while walking

The welfare of sentient beings is transforming the mind into virtue and abandoning the afflictions.

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Seven-point Mind Training

Rarity of a precious human life

Discussion regarding the rarity of creating the causes and conditions for a precious human life…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 21-4: Emptiness of mind

The clear light nature of the mind, transition from the sutra view to the tantric…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 21-2: Seeing the buddha in others

Seeing sentient beings as buddhas, a way to control our negative mind but not taking…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 20-3: Creating the causes

A meditation practice of reasoning with the angry mind to drop the anger. Considering that…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Emptiness in everyday life

How ignorance, conceptualizations, afflictions and karma are linked and how to practice the understanding of…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 20-2: The lower realms

A description of the lower realms, and whether they are actual places or just states…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 20-1: Going downhill

The importance of preventing sentient beings, and ourselves, from being born in the lower realms.

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