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Blossoms of the Dharma
By: Thubten Chodron
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Living as a Buddhist Nun
In recent years Buddhist nuns from Asia and the West have met together to become more active in improving their status in the female sangha. At " Life As a Buddhist Nun," the 1996 conference in Dharamsala, His Holiness the Dalai Lama supported this effort of Buddhist nuns to clarify their purpose in taking vows, widening their context, broadening community beyond their own abbeys, and supporting one another on their quest to to achieve greater equality with men in liturgical matters, especially ordination. They received concentrated teachings on the bhikshuni precepts, discussed their lives and Dharma practice, and compared traditions and precepts in different lineages.
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Buddhism for Beginners
By: Thubten Chodron
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Buddhism for Beginners covers the most fundamental questions and issues that arise in the minds of modern Western individuals who are new to this tradition of practical spirituality. Written in clear and engaged language, this book presents the Buddhist approach to the fundamental issues and concerns of daily life.
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Cultivating a Compassionate Heart: The Yoga Method of Chenrezig
By: Thubten Chodron
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Perhaps the most widely known and loved deity throughout the Buddhist world, Chenrezig-also known as Avalokiteshvara, Kuan Yin, or Kannon-is the Buddha of Compassion. Buddhists turn to Chenrezig for protection, friendship, and inspiration on a daily basis. The meditation practice in this book--composed by a teacher with an extensive Western following--is presented as a useful manual for ease of practice. An enlightening-and often humorous-commentary by well-known author Thubten Chodron offers instructions and tips on making the practice even more relevant to daily life.
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Don't Have to Believe Everything You Think
By: Thubten Chodron
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It can be hard for those living in the twenty-first century to see how fourteenth-century Buddhist teachings apply to them. When you're trying to figure out which cell phone plan to buy or brooding about something someone wrote about you on Facebook, lines like "While the enemy of your own anger is unsubdued,/Though you conquer external foes, they will only increase" can seem a little obscure.
Thubten Chodron's new book doesn't just explain the verses of Togmay Zangpo's revered text, Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas. In dozens of passages, she lets her students and colleagues share first-person stories of the ways that its teachings have changed their lives. Some bear witness to dramatic transformationsmaking friends with an enemy prisoner-of-war, finding peace after the murder of a loved onewhile others tell of smaller lessons, like waiting for something to happen or coping with a minor injury. One woman who set up a practice with another professional discovered he was deeply in debt and had stolen money from her. "I learned a lot about not feeling like a victim and not being angry.... This man had two small kids. His wife had breast cancer. His suffering was evident. What others do to me is not the issue; it's how I think about their actions."
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Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path
By: Thubten Chodron
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The meditation teachings of lamrim, says Buddhist teacher Thubten Chodron, are like ready-made clothes that are easy to wear--they're systematized so that we can "wear" them right away, so we can learn and practice them in an organized fashion.
These systematic teachings are the subject of this book and the accompanying CD. The lamrim presents a step-by-step method to tame the mind.
The first section of Guided Meditations discusses how to establish a daily practice; how to set up an altar, and how to approach the two kinds of meditation--stabilizing and analytical. The second presents the meditations. The third supplies an overview, instructions for working with distractions, antidotes to mental afflictions, advice for newcomers, and suggestions on how to deepen Dharma practice.
The accompanying mp3 CD contains over 15 hours of guided meditations. Individuals who live far from Buddhist teachers or Dharma centers will appreciate the personal guidance offered with these meditations, enabling them to begin and continue a daily meditation practice.
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How to Free Your Mind: The Practice of Tara the Liberator
By: Thubten Chodron
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The beloved deity Tara is the feminine embodiment of enlightenment. For centuries, practitioners have turned to her for protection from both external and internal dangers, ranging from fire to anger and arrogance. Any reader interested in pursuing the enlightened qualities of the Buddhist deities will be drawn to this well-written and authoritative book. Presented in conversational style, How to Free Your Mind will appeal to both a general audience and to those specifically interested in female manifestations of the divine.
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Open Heart, Clear Mind
By: Thubten Chodron
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This practical introduction to Buddhism focuses on the application of Buddhist psvchologv to modern life. Thubten Chodron, an American Buddhist nun, presents the basic points of this path for understanding ourselves and improving the qualitv of our lives.
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Taming the Mind
By: Thubten Chodron
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We all wish to gain greater understanding of ourselves. This ideal follow-up to the author's extremely popular Buddhism for Beginners explains in clear and simple language the essence of Buddhist philosophy and psychology, together with practical tools for immediate implementation in our daily lives.
We all want to have good relationships with others. Chodron offers practical techniques to help us gain a more spacious perspective on relationships, whether they be between lovers, parent and child, employer and employee, friends, or spiritual teacher and student. Guidelines are given for how to practice, freeing ourselves from habitually blaming others for our problems, and learning to be on the spot and take responsibility for our lives. This book describes how our mind/heart, not the external world, is the ultimate source of our happiness. We learn how to look at people and situations in an entirely new light. The book concludes with a discussion of common misconceptions about Buddhism.
The author's down-to-earth language and examples invite us to not only engage the material, but to implement it in our own lives. The author's open-minded approach makes this book suitable for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
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Working with Anger
By: Thubten Chodron
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Anger plagues all of us on a personal, national, and international level. Yet, we see people, such as the Dalai Lama, who have faced circumstances far worse than many of us have faced - including exile, persecution, and the loss of many loved ones - but who do not burn with rage or seek revenge. How do they do it?
Working with Anger presents a variety of Buddhist methods for subduing and preventing anger, not by changing what is happening, but by framing it differently. No matter what our religion, learning to work with our anger is effective for everyone seeking personal happiness as well as world peace.
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