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What Is Love?
Dr. Alexander Berzin, Matt Lindén
The Buddhist view of love.
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Dr. Alexander Berzin
Ways we can make our lives happier.
How to Deal with Anxiety
Matt Lindén
Tips for overcoming anxiety, to live a more confident life.
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The Heart Sutra
This short text on prajnaparamita (the perfection of wisdom) presents the essence of the far-reaching discriminating awareness of voidness (emptiness). It is recited and meditated upon throughout the Mahayana Buddhist world.
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Spread of Buddhism in Asia
Dr. Alexander Berzin
A short introduction to how Buddhism spread from its beginnings in northern India to become the major belief system across much of Asia.
Calming Down Thoughts
Dr. Alexander Berzin
Conceptual thought has many varieties. Some are useful and some detrimental in meditation and daily life.
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The Dalai Lama in Dialogue with Sufi Scholars
The 14th Dalai Lama
“A Meeting of Two Oceans; Dialogue on Sufism and Buddhism”: a dialogue at the Roshan Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland.
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Meditation States That Are Discerning or Stabilizing
Dr. Alexander Berzin
Shamatha emphasizes stabilizing meditation. Vipashyana emphasizes discerning meditation. A state of vipashyana is pervasive with being a state of the joined pair: stabilizing and discerning meditations.
Making Sense of Tantra
Dr. Alexander Berzin
Tantra entails advanced Mahayana practices that weave together all the different themes of practice that we’ve developed already in sutra. It is the intertwining of the basis, pathway, and resultant conditions of everlasting continuities of Buddha-nature factors to weave a method for achieving enlightenment.
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Interview with Mingyur Rinpoche
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Interview with Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II
Matt Lindén
Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II talks about the pressures of the tulku system, the differences between Buddhists in the West and his homeland of Spiti, and the importance of compassion.
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Interview with His Eminence Dagyab Rinpoche
Matt Lindén
His Eminence Dagyab Rinpoche discusses the importance of lifelong learning, why a clear understanding of emptiness is crucial, and how to stop ourselves from impulse buying.
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Introduction to the Two Truths in Theravada
Ajahn Amaro
The two truths in Theravada refer to the objective basic components of conventional objects and the conventional objects that are conceptual constructs projected on the basis of them.
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Appearances as the Play of the Mind: Gelug Explanation
Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche
Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche explains the Gelug Prasangika presentation of appearances being the play of the mind.
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Recognizing Me as My Previous Life’s Reincarnation – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II
Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II
Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche’s experience of being recognized as a reincarnation.
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