anger

Teachings on the mental affliction of anger, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.

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Mind and Mental Factors

Quotes about the afflictions

The entire Buddhist path mapped onto combating the afflictions with quotes from various Dharma teachers…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Cultivating excellent qualities

Describing the three factors that make the cultivation of excellent qualities, reviewing the sections, "Excellent…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Unborn clear light mind

Comparing how the primordially pure mind is understood in the New Translation School (clear light…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Afflictions and the nature of the mind

Explaining how the mind is different from mental factors, teaching from the next section, “Afflictive…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Understanding ignorance

Explaining how afflictions are rooted in ignorance and how we can eradicate ignorance, continuing the…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Afflictions are the enemy

Explaining the reason how it is possible to cultivate powerful antidotes to the afflictions, continuing…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Review of Chapter Six: Verses 40-42

Why being angry at others is inappropriate, because they are under the control of afflictions

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Review of Chapter Six: Verses 36-40

Developing fortitude in the face of harm and hardship using thought transformation verses.

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Review of Chapter Six: Verses 22-34

How anger arises due to causes and conditions, and how to use an understanding of…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Afflictions are weak

Continuing the review of Chapter 12, "Mind and Its Potential", describing how afflictions are not…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Review of Chapter Six: Verses 12-21

How we can use suffering and difficult situations to increase our compassion, instead of responding…

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