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Shamatha and Vipashyana
WIthin any tradition are these basic kinds of meditations: shamatha meditaiton and vipashyana meditation. Shamatha means calmly, peacfully abiding, a sense of harmony. Vipasyana or insight meditation brings wisdom and intelligence and knowledge into it. Knowledge in terms of looking at Is the self real? Impermanence. What is the nature of reality?
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Length: 7 minutes
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Confidence in Basic Goodness
Fundamentally, primordially, innately we are good. Is a very powerful thing to be brought up in that environment: to be told that we are good. A lot of times we think, I'm not good, I need more, I'm not complete.
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Length: 6 minutes
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How to Generate Compassion
We don't focus on our own suffering, we acknowledge it - and just like the suffering I'm having - others are having it much more. The notion of compassion is - may all sentient beings be free from suffering.
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Length: 5:30 minutes
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Good Mind
Meditation is about cultivating a clean, clear mind where there is so much possibility and potential.
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Length: 5 minutes
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Great Eastern Sun
Good Morning. It is always morning. The sun of the great eastern sun never sets. I'm giving do my whole talk in Haikus. From a talk at the Ruling Your World Dathun.
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Length: 12 minutes
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Selected Poems I
To My Father, to the Vajra Sangha.
Snow Fell Twice, The Sun Always Shone.
Single Fortress.
Night in Kalapa.
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Ten Nonvirtuous Actions of Mind, Body, and Speech
All of these nonvirtuous actions are characterized what is called "harmful intent." Rather than simply laying down a strict moral code, this list simply points out that, according to the Buddha, such acts plant and water seeds of nonvirtue, or migewa
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The Heart of the Bodhisattva
“We might think that helping others will drain us. But when we become bodhisattva-warriors—using our wisdom and compassion to extend our lives to others—our own suffering is relieved.”
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Making a Decision the Meditative Way
As a Buddhist teacher, I seem to attract people who cannot decide what to do. They are sometimes so desperate that they come to me in hopes that I'll make a decision for them.
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Karma, Impermanence, and Suffering
I would like to clarify what we have been talking about in terms of the truth of suffering. We are going to look at the first truth to see how a pakpa or great being would understand it.
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Nine Stages of Training the Mind
These nine stages are a map of the meditative process. The first four stages—placement, continual placement, repeated placement, and close placement—have to do with developing stability.
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The Truth about Suffering
The path of meditation isn't necessarily about becoming a Buddhist. It's about awakening to who we already are: buddha—"awakened one" in Sanskrit.
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Easy Come, Easy Go
I've always loved sports—horseback riding, golf, running. I once asked my father what he thought about football, since it's a sport that didn't exist in Tibet. He answered, "They've been winning and losing the same game for a hundred years."
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Windhorse
During hard times, people often ask me for advice. They feel destabilized and scattered. They're often caught up in examining who they are, what the world is, and how they fit in.
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