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An Open-Hearted Life

Working with Conflict and Making Requests

Exploring ways to handle conflict situations, and how to skillfully make requests of others to…

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Antidotes to Afflictions

Meditation on working with fear and anger

A guided meditation on how to work with fear and anger to respond more effectively…

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Meditation

Using logic to prove selflessness

The reasonings refuting external phenomena put forward by the proponents of the Mind-Only School.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Explicit and implicit presentations of the 12 links

Continuing the teachings from Chapter 8, explaining the explicit and implicit descriptions of the 12…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Intrusive conditions and incompatible propensities

Continued explanation of the eight intrusive conditions and eight incompatible propensities that interfere with practicing…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Aging or death

Completing Chapter 7, describing the twelfth-link, aging or death and starting Chapter 8 "Dependent Origination:…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Distracted by the causes for pain

Commentary on verse 15 of Chapter 7 including the intrusive conditions and incompatible propensities that…

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Meditation

Meditating on the selflessness of persons

How to cultivate special insight by meditating on the selflessness of persons.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Questions and answers on meditation

Teaching from Chapter 7, responding to questions on meditating on the dying process and how…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

People do not learn by suffering

Counteracting laziness and developing joyous effort. Commentary on verses 11-14 of Chapter 7. Also why…

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Monastic Life

Being easy to speak to

Being humble means respecting and appreciating different ways of thinking.

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