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| Cultivating a Compassionate Heart | 25 Oct 2024 | 00:12:03 | |
This talk was recorded at the Rime Buddhist Center on 10/6/24. | |||
| The Power of Metta | 18 Oct 2024 | 00:17:27 | |
this talk was recorded at the Rime Buddhist Center on 9/29/24 | |||
| Make Your Life Meaningful | 28 Jul 2024 | 00:11:01 | |
Is your life meaningful? If not, what would it take for it to be so?
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| Six Transcendent Virtues | 20 May 2024 | 00:13:57 | |
On flat tires and patience.
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| Love and Compassion | 15 Mar 2024 | 00:18:13 | |
Metta and Karuna
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| Actions to Avoid | 15 Feb 2024 | 00:10:19 | |
From the Lojong Teachings.
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| When Life Punches You in the Face | 15 Jan 2024 | 00:15:39 | |
A dharma talk.
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| Emotions | 12 Dec 2023 | 00:11:02 | |
Emotions
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| Short Talk on Meditation | 14 Nov 2023 | 00:08:23 | |
Short talk on meditation
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| A Limitless Heart | 17 Oct 2023 | 00:10:26 | |
The Metta Sutta
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| Love and Connecting with Others | 17 Oct 2023 | 00:23:57 | |
Love and Compassion benefit ourselves and others.
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| Doubt and Free Inquiry | 15 Oct 2023 | 00:12:49 | |
The Buddha’s teaching to the Kalamas
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| Questions of the Naga King Sagara | 13 Sep 2023 | 00:13:41 | |
An exploration of a Mahayana sutra
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| Reflections and Guidance on the Immeasurables | 05 Sep 2023 | 00:14:07 | |
Love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity. This is an extended reading from “The Power of the Mind” by Khentrul Lodro Thaye
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| Why Train Your Mind? | 22 Aug 2023 | 00:32:44 | |
This is a talk on training our minds. I read some quotes from "The Power of Mind" by Khentrul Lodro Thaye.
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| Four Thoughts That Change Your Mind | 08 Aug 2023 | 00:20:05 | |
This is a Mind Training Teaching.
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| The Four Applications | 01 Aug 2023 | 00:18:41 | |
Gathering Accumulations, Purifying Obscurations, and Offering Tormas
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| The Buddha and the Flower | 25 Jul 2023 | 00:08:58 | |
A story
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| Bodhichitta: No One Gets Left Out | 01 Jul 2023 | 00:17:56 | |
No one gets left out of your heart.
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| Wisdom on the back of a t shirt. | 01 Jun 2023 | 00:11:49 | |
Rare freedoms and advantages.
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| The Awakened Heart | 15 May 2023 | 01:50:21 | |
Bodhichitta
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| Awakening | 01 May 2023 | 00:15:59 | |
The foundation of Buddhism. Can we let go of Anguish?
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| The Thousands | 24 Apr 2023 | 00:38:51 | |
From the Dhammapada
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| Flowers and The Mind | 17 Apr 2023 | 00:46:30 | |
This is a teaching from the Dhammapada
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| Introducing the Dhammapada | 10 Apr 2023 | 00:43:38 | |
This is an exploration of the introduction and the first two chapters of Gil Fronsdal’s translation of the Dhammapada, the sayings of the Buddha.
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| Actions to Avoid part 2 | 03 Apr 2023 | 00:20:09 | |
From the Lojong teachings
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| Actions to Avoid Part 1 | 27 Mar 2023 | 00:25:53 | |
From the Lojong teachings
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| Advice for Mind Training part 2 | 20 Mar 2023 | 00:26:33 | |
From the Lojong teachings
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| Advice For Mind Training part 1 | 17 Mar 2023 | 00:29:01 | |
From the Lojong teachings
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| Measure of Mind Training | 15 Mar 2023 | 00:15:28 | |
Four ways to measure growth
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| The Five Forces part two | 13 Mar 2023 | 00:12:54 | |
How to train while dying
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| The Five Forces part 1 | 10 Mar 2023 | 00:07:48 | |
The five forces
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| Using Creative Methods for Transformation | 08 Mar 2023 | 00:28:57 | |
The four applications and bringing teachings into daily life.
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| Using Ultimate Reality for Transformation | 06 Mar 2023 | 00:12:25 | |
What are the 4 kayas.
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| Using Reality for Transformation | 03 Mar 2023 | 00:30:04 | |
Drives blames into one, reflecting on great kindness, and three kinds of patience.
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| Applying the Trainings | 01 Mar 2023 | 00:34:38 | |
How do we use these insights in day to day life?
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| Ourselves, Others, and Tonglen | 27 Feb 2023 | 00:20:33 | |
Can we exchange ourselves with others?
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| Equalizing: Love, Compassion, Rejoicing, and Equalness | 24 Feb 2023 | 00:32:50 | |
Equalizing ourselves and others
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| The Awakened Heart | 22 Feb 2023 | 00:24:29 | |
Bodhichitta
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| Illusions and Remedies | 16 Feb 2023 | 00:32:50 | |
Wisdom is the nature of your mind.
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| Houses, Snakes, and Ultimate Reality | 09 Feb 2023 | 00:26:40 | |
What is the true nature of things? Are all phenomena like a dream?
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| Suffering | 02 Feb 2023 | 00:18:35 | |
The Unsatisfactory Nature of All Things
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| Karma, Cause, and Result | 26 Jan 2023 | 00:17:45 | |
Actions have consequences.
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| Impermanence | 19 Jan 2023 | 00:35:17 | |
There’s nothing to hold onto.
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| This Precious Human Life | 12 Jan 2023 | 00:22:45 | |
Human life is precious and rare. Don’t waste it.
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| Key Points of Meditation | 10 Jan 2023 | 00:09:00 | |
This is a talk based on the teachings in “Power of Mind” by Khentrul Lodro Thaye
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| Four Thoughts That Change Your Mind. | 05 Jan 2023 | 00:20:49 | |
This is a mind training teaching.
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| Why Train Your Mind? | 01 Jan 2023 | 00:33:26 | |
This is a talk on training our minds. I read some quotes from “The Power of Mind” by Khentrul Lodro Thaye.
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| Guided Tonglen Meditation | 30 Dec 2022 | 00:11:01 | |
Taking and Sending
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| The Four Foundations of Mindfulness | 15 Dec 2022 | 00:15:49 | |
In this talk I explore a fundamental Buddhist teaching called "The Four Foundations of Mindfulness". Can being mindful of our bodies, feelings, thoughts, and the world around us help us to live in a better way? I think so.
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