anger
Teachings on the mental affliction of anger, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Transforming and naturally abiding Buddha nature
Explaining the meaning of naturally abiding buddha nature and transforming buddha nature, from the section…
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Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) How afflictions manifest
How afflictions are generated and why we need equanimity to combat them.
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Twenty secondary afflictions
A teaching on the twenty secondary afflictions and applying antidotes.
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How the afflictions harm us
Definition of an affliction, how to identify them, and the ten root afflictions, with detail…
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Quotes about the afflictions
The entire Buddhist path mapped onto combating the afflictions with quotes from various Dharma teachers…
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Cultivating excellent qualities
Describing the three factors that make the cultivation of excellent qualities, reviewing the sections, "Excellent…
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Unborn clear light mind
Comparing how the primordially pure mind is understood in the New Translation School (clear light…
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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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Understanding ignorance
Explaining how afflictions are rooted in ignorance and how we can eradicate ignorance, continuing the…
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Afflictions are the enemy
Explaining the reason how it is possible to cultivate powerful antidotes to the afflictions, continuing…
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Venerable Thubten Samten 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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