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Venerable Sangye Khadro Know your mind: Virtuous mental factors
Explanation of the virtuous mental factors of nonattachment, nonhatred, nonconfusion, joyous effort, pliancy, conscientiousness, equanimity,…
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Know your mind: Object-ascertaining and virtuous men...
Explanation of the five object-ascertaining mental factors and the first three virtuous mental factors —faith,…
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Venerable Tenzin Tsepal Meditation on three kinds of faith
A guided analytical meditation on the three types of faith.
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Know your mind: Omnipresent mental factors
The similarities shared by main minds and mental factors, and the five omnipresent mental factors…
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Know your mind: Introduction to minds and mental fac...
An overview of the definition of mind, sense and mental consciousnesses. Explanation of main minds…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Afflictions, our real enemy
Finishing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how to see afflictions as our real enemy and…
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Unhappiness fuels anger
Covering Verses 7-10 of Chapter 6, describing the evolution of how anger enters the mind,…
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The path to liberation
How to cease the twelve links, an outline of ethical practices, and the antidotes to…
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When a dear one has a medical emergency
In a time of uncertainty, letting our minds relax can be of benefit to ourselves…
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Compassionate communication
How to bring compassion to our communication and how to look at situations objectively without…
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Meditation on compassion for our enemies
A guided analytical meditation to cultivate compassion for those we have difficulty with or who…
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Counterforces to the afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 4, describing various counterforces to the afflictions, such as anger, attachment, jealousy,…
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