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Working with Anger

Contemplating the faults of anger

Two faults of anger to contemplate and why Buddhahood depends on even cockroaches.

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Working with Anger

Anger and attachment are equally unhelpful

How anger and attachment cause us to exaggerate and project qualities onto people and things.

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On Refuge and Bodhicitta

Dharma medicine for these times

Cultivating compassion in politically turbulent times.

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Stages of the Path

Four virtuous practices

Practices that prevent bodhicitta from degenerating in future lives.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Overcoming self-centeredness

Investigating the way self-centeredness causes problems and how to overcome it.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Seeing things clearly

Examining conventional and ultimate existence and searching for an inherent self.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Caught in the four currents

Examining the situation for all beings in cyclic existence and how bodhicitta helps.

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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

Higher training in ethical conduct

Questioning why we engage in ethical conduct, and reviewing the first three sections in Chapter…

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Dharma in Action

Compassion in our country

How harming others is actually harming ourselves and the importance of compassion.

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