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

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Feelings and the ethical dimension of afflictions

Continuing the teachings from Chapter 4, explaining the relationship between three types of feelings and…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Factors causing afflictions to arise

Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how six principal factors that cause afflictions to arise…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

The order in which afflictions arise

Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing the order in which afflictions arise according to different…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

The defects of anger

Discussing the various defects and disadvantages of anger, covering Verses 1 - 6 of Chapter…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Eighty-four thousand afflictions

Completing Chapter 3, covering five hindrances and beginning Chapter 4, describing how fear, anxiety and…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Practical advice on manners

Covering Verses 91-100 of Chapter 5, discussing advice on manners, namely actions such as spitting,…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Clusters of afflictions

Teaching from Chapter 3, continuing with the auxiliary afflictions, describing those derived from ignorance and…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Giving our body and the Dharma

Discussing how to skillfully give our body and the Dharma for the benefit of ourselves…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Auxiliary afflictions

Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining the auxiliary afflictions in the Sanskrit tradition, covering the afflictions…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Joyfully engaging in virtue

Discussing ways to think, speak and act in order to joyfully create virtue in the…

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