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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 10: Misleading friends

Misleading friends appear kind but encourage us away from our ethics and principles and can…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 9: The chains that bind us

Attachment, habitual behaviors, and doubt hinder our practice even when we go on retreat.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 10: Refuting misconceptions of the self

Refuting erroneous views of an unchanging self, both innate and acquired. How to use awareness…

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Making Offerings

Generating wealth

The antidote to feeling poor is generosity, might it be in material or in immaterial…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 8: The prison of personal entanglements

Attachment to loved ones and friends creates suffering that distracts us from our spiritual aspirations.

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 7: The enemies of happiness and prosperity

Afflictive emotions like miserliness and anger only bring us misery, though we think they'll bring…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Developing calm abiding

How keeping precepts helps one's meditation practice and helps in living a happier life.

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Causes and conditions for enlightenment

Understanding emptiness in the context of the entire Buddhist path, with the wish to attain…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Dependent arising and emptiness

An understanding of cause and effect is necessary for and compatible with the realization of…

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Seeing the interdependence of phenomena

Understanding phenomena are empty of inherent existence because they are dependent arising. Avoid notion of…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 6: The mischievous slanderer, jealousy

Unable to bear the happiness of others, jealousy causes us to harm those who try…

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