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The End of Suffering

By Joseph Goldstein — 2013

In his new book, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening, Joseph Goldstein discusses the ultimate freedom our practice is meant to bring about.

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Oh Tara, Protect Us

Vajrayana practitioners supplicate deities and buddhas to help clear obstacles on the path. In this teaching, Thubten Chodron comments on a prayer to the buddha Tara to protect us from the eight dangers.

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Thubten Chodron
2021
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Don’t Take It Personally!

Don’t take anything personally. This agreement gives you immunity in the interaction you have with the secondary characters in your story. You don’t have to concern yourself with other people’s points of view.

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don Jose Ruiz
2010
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How the Stories We Tell Ourselves Control Our Lives

As human beings, our predominant agenda is to survive. The instinct is deep in our DNA. Of course we want to stay alive, but now this instinct has become more of an emotional response. It's less about a threat to our actual existence and more about the barrage of perceived threats to our ego.

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Peter Crone
2018
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Raise the Lamp of Liberty! Declare Your Inner Independence

We may live in a democratic society, but unless we are free of the inner bondage of fear and separation, we are not truly free.

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Alan Cohen
2014
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How to Find Inner Freedom

For many of us on a spiritual path we go back and forth between separate states of consciousness and divine states.

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Sandra Ingerman
2011
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What Makes Us Free?

Insight. Loving-kindness. Cultivating what’s wholesome. And making them real in our lives every day. These are what make us free, say Insight Meditation teachers Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein.

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Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield
2013
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Sister Joan Chittister on Freedom in Our Later Years

As we grow older, we no longer need to “fit in” but are free to be ourselves and explore new ideas.

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Joan Chittister
2014
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