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<p data-fontsize="16" data-kx-storage="{">The real meaning of Dharma practice is to transform our minds. The rubber meets the road when we get off the cushion and live our practice in daily life.</p>

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Prison Poetry

Buddha’s door

In meditation, a person in prison reflects on his experience of freedom and compassion for…

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A wood craving of a sun above the word Awaken.
By Incarcerated People

Glad to be here

A person in prison tells the story of how he happened to be in the…

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Metal bars of a solitary prison cell.
By Incarcerated People

A long-awaited vacation

How Dharma offered an important choice for an incarcerated person to transform.

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Venerable Chodron in South India with the reincarnation of her teacher, Ling Rinpoche.
Working with Emotions

Cultivating emotional balance

Focusing on our own problems only makes them worse. Expanding our view to consider other…

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Venerable Chodron teaching in Singapore, smiling after being offered flowers.
Cultivating Healthy Relationships

A peaceful heart in a complex world

Changing relationships can begin with kindness in action, speech and thought.

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Bars on a window with dead tree inside against red bricks
On Self-Worth

Shame

Finding self-respect in the respect we have for our own Buddha nature.

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Cigarettes stacked neatly with the top one burning
On Addiction

An appeal to Linda

A heartfelt plea to a loved one to stop smoking cigarettes.

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Hands holding sparklers
On Love, Compassion, and Bodhicitta

Happy birthday, Mom

A simple birthday song to an incarcerated person's mother brings happiness.

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Thangka image of Vajrasattva.
On Meditation

Better than a hell realm

A person in prison makes use of the tonglen practice while participating in the retreat…

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Monk walking toward the large, transparent head of a buddha.
On Cultivating Wisdom

Patience with the path

Changing the world by working on one moment, one thought, one emotion at a time.

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Abbey guest meditating outside.
Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions

Self-centeredness and being spiritually stuck

How to overcome our own worst enemy and progress spiritually.

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The words Life made up of Scrabble letters with water droplets on it.
Dharma in Daily Life

The meaning and purpose of life

The underlying meaning and purpose for being alive and what is important at the time…

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