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Khensur Jampa Tegchok The self and the aggregates
When the conception of "I" exists there is action, from action there is also birth,…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Emptiness of self
Understanding unfamiliar concepts in the teaching: the mind, the self, and emptiness of the self.
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Conception of “I”
How all beings arise from the conception of "I" and are enveloped with the conception…
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Abandoning nonvirtue, practicing virtue
Avoiding the ten nonvirtues is the basis for practicing ethical conduct. How taking precepts in…
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The fourth distortion
The source of suffering is due to our misconceptions in perceiving phenomena.
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Motivation in practicing virtue
The importance of creating virtue with the proper motivation.
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The truth of the origin of suffering
Looking at inappropriate attention and how it works in our mind, creating attachment and suffering.
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A proper motivation
How the proper motivation is required in order to reap the full benefits of our…
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The truth of dukkha
Understanding dukkha helps us to cultivate the wish to be free from it.
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Love, compassion, and wisdom
It is through the three higher trainings (discipline, meditation and wisdom) that we overcome the…
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The mind and renunciation
The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…
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