Thought Training
Teachings that help us transform our minds to see people and events we find challenging from a Dharma perspective.
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37 Practices: Verses 4-6
Verses describing the miseries of samsara, the importance of thinking about beginningless lives, giving up…
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37 Practices: Verses 1-3
Making the lamrim personal, changing environments to change negative habits, and relaxing as we see…
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Developing a Dharma mind
The importance of practicing ourselves before we can help others, guarding against hypocrisy and constantly…
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Working on the mind
Different practices to work with the eight worldly concerns and cultivating the six far-reaching attitudes…
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Stages of the path to enlightenment
Lamrim topics and thought transformation practices within the 37 practices of bodhisattvas.
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Precious human life
Having a precious human life, how the three poisonous attitudes affect us, importance of spiritual…
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Wisdom fear of samsara
A teaching on the reality of cyclic existence and possibility for liberation. Reflecting on our…
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The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
Verses on developing the qualities of a bodhisattva by Gyelsay Togmay Zangpo, plus a recording…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 104-106
A look at dependent arising and emptiness, how things appear to exist in one way,…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 101-104
Eliminating our own self-centeredness and our own self grasping ignorance and thereby developing the compassion…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verse 104-Conclusion
How things exist dependent on causes and conditions, they appear one way and exist in…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 99-104
How we can grow in our Dharma practice through these courageous mind-training practices. Thinking about…
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