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View and Guided Practice of Tonglen
Tonglen gives us a method on how to relate with pain. How to open our heart and open our mind in the very situation where our hearts and minds habitually shut down. This is really the key.
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Length: 4 minutes
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Cultivating Unconditional Friendliness to Oneself
So I teach about maitri a lot. In fact, sometimes I think it's the only thing I teach. I also teach about compassion a lot, but actually compassion is a form of maitri so this unconditional friendliness to oneself, it seems to be what most of us do not have.
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Bodhichitta and Aspiration
Bodhichitta is essentially a quality of warmth, an experience of our connection with all beings and with all things. It's said traditionally that it's expressed as a wish or an aspiration, initially expressed as a strong longing or wish that nobody suffer...
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Lojong - Mind Training
You have to start training your mind and heart to tap into the potential for compassion and love that is in any negative thought or positive thought that you might have. There has to be some kind of training that begins.
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The Practice of Tonglen - Transforming Confusion into Wisdom
In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves. In particular, to care about other people who are fearful, angry, jealous, overpowered by addictions of all kinds, arrogant, proud, miserly, selfish, mean —you name it— to have compassion and to care for these people, means not to run from the pain of finding these things in ourselves.
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The Shenpa Syndrome - Learning to Stay
This is a teaching on a Tibetan word: shenpa. The usual translation of the word shenpa is attachment. Here is an everyday example of shenpa. Somebody says a mean word to you and then something in you tightens— that's the shenpa.
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