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The love of money
How attachment to wealth breeds anxiety and dissatisfaction, and how contentment with what we have…
View PostBe there for the right reasons
The motives behind your actions are important. Are you motivated by your ego? Buddhism teaches…
View PostLove people, not pleasure
In the search for happiness, attachment to fame and reputation is a major cause of…
View PostEnding the pity party
How to work with the mind that wants to wallow in self-pity. We can use…
View PostDharma and Sangha Jewels in depth
The ultimate and conventional Dharma and Sangha Jewels. The Pali and Sanskrit traditions' view of…
View PostChapter 8: Verses 185-200
Geshe Thabkhe concludes the teachings on making the mindstream receptive to the development of spiritual…
View PostChapter 8: Verses 178-184
Geshe Thabkhe teaches on methods to eliminate disturbing emotions and talks about how they can…
View PostChapters 7-8: Verses 171-177
Geshe Thabkhe teaches on inappropriateness of accumulating merit for higher rebirths in cyclic existence and…
View PostChapter 7: Verses 159-170
Geshe Thabkhe finishes teaching on Chapter 7 which talks about how to abandon contaminated karma,…
View PostChapter 7: Verses 151-158
Geshe Thabkhe teaches on the disadvantages of being attached to the pleasures of cyclic existence…
View PostChapter 6: Verses 141–150
Practical advice on how to work with anger especially that which arises from hearing abusive…
View PostChapter 6: Verses 135–140
Identifying ignorance grasping at true existence and cultivating its antidote by reflecting on dependent arising.
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