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Venerable Thubten Chodron Staving off the flood
Strengthening our precepts and practice helps to fortify our minds against the flood of attachment…
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Attachment to ideas
Try something different! How attachment to ideas creates conflict and unhappiness in our lives.
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Attachment to personal identity
Sometimes going to a new environment gives us more space to relate to things and…
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Varieties of attachment
Under the right conditions we can become attached to anything, exaggerating the good qualities of…
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Analyzing the body
Analyzing the body helps to see how it does not exist inherently but does exist…
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The flood of attachment
Attachment and craving cause us to create non-virtue in this life and also propel us…
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The courage to be happy
In protecting us from miserliness, Tara is giving us the courage to be happy.
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Letting go of self
The materialistic view that sees the afflictions as hard-wired into us versus the Buddhist view…
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The chain of miserliness
We need to develop a realistic view of just what our situation is—bound in cyclic…
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Different ways of meditating on the four establishments
How the bodhisattvas' way of meditating on the four establishments differs from that of hearers…
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Sravasti Abbey Monastics Review: Meditating on the mind
Members of the Abbey community go over questions 5-9 of the second quiz on the…
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Review: Mindfulness and wisdom
Members of the Abbey community go over the first four questions of the second quiz…
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