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Venerable Sangye Khadro Know your mind: The twenty auxiliary afflictions
An explanation of the 20 auxiliary mental afflictions, which are branches of the three root…
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Know your mind: Six root afflictions
Explanation of the meaning and antidotes to the remaining five root afflictions: anger, arrogance, ignorance,…
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Know your mind: A general explanation of afflictions
An overview of mental afflictions and explanation of the first of the six root afflictions,…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Dependent arising
Completing Chapter 6, covering karma and instinctual behavior and commencing Chapter 7, describing the wheel…
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Patience and joyous action
More on the perfection of patience and a teaching on the last three perfections: joyous…
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Who’s responsible for our suffering
Covering Verses 42-50 of Chapter 6, exploring various perspectives on who is "responsible" for our…
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Courageous Compassion
An overview of the sixth volume of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, “Courageous Compassion".
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Meditation on the third attribute of true duhkha
Meditation on exploring the possibility of a permanent, unitary, independent self.
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The importance of empathic listening
How listening is different from just hearing, and how we can cultivate the skill of…
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Meditation on perceived threats and needs
A guided analytical meditation on working with perceived threats, and how to change how we…
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Karma and our environment
Continuing teaching from Chapter 6, covering the interaction between the mind and external world and…
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Generosity, ethics and patience
The first three of the six perfections: generosity, ethics and patience.
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