anger

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

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Young Adults Explore Buddhism 2023

Unpacking our afflictions

How to identify the afflictions within our own minds, along with explaining their causes, their…

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Working with Anger

How anger arises

Exploring how our interpretations can fuel or reduce anger.

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Working with Anger

Q & A on anger

Exploring practical ways to work with anger and conflict.

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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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