Sravasti Abbey
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Sustaining our monastic life
How a long-term bodhicitta motivation is essential to sustaining ordained life and the importance of…
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The value of a sangha community
The meaning of sangha and the benefits of living in a monastic community.
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Factors causing afflictions to arise
Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how six principal factors that cause afflictions to arise…
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Living a happy monastic life
The key factors that lead to having a happy mind as a monastic and living…
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Monastic precepts and community life
How monastic precepts and community life are set up to help work with our afflictions…
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The five precepts
How the five precepts guide how we live and relate to each other for the…
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The order in which afflictions arise
Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing the order in which afflictions arise according to different…
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The defects of anger
Discussing the various defects and disadvantages of anger, covering Verses 1 - 6 of Chapter…
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Compassion and empathy review
Further commentary on how empathy is important in being compassionate, how to develop empathy and…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Guided meditation on compassion
A guided meditation to make the mind more familiar and more habituated to the feeling…
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Eighty-four thousand afflictions
Completing Chapter 3, covering five hindrances and beginning Chapter 4, describing how fear, anxiety and…
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Putting the dharma into practice
Covering Chapter 5 Verses 100-109, discussing the advice to dedicate our merits for the welfare…
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