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Contemplating the faults of anger
Two faults of anger to contemplate and why Buddhahood depends on even cockroaches.
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Anger and attachment are equally unhelpful
How anger and attachment cause us to exaggerate and project qualities onto people and things.
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Mind training in adverse circumstances
How to apply the Dharma to turn your mind when suffering from illness.
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The stages of the path within our reach in the West
How the three principal aspects of the path lead to happiness for ourselves and others.
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Bringing Dharma to the West in the 21st century
Questions about the function of Dharma communities and how lay people and monastics can support…
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Four virtuous practices
Practices that prevent bodhicitta from degenerating in future lives.
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Overcoming self-centeredness
Investigating the way self-centeredness causes problems and how to overcome it.
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Seeing things clearly
Examining conventional and ultimate existence and searching for an inherent self.
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Suffering is a result of how we think
How seeing the world through the eyes of a victim make us unhappy.
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Caught in the four currents
Examining the situation for all beings in cyclic existence and how bodhicitta helps.
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Higher training in ethical conduct
Questioning why we engage in ethical conduct, and reviewing the first three sections in Chapter…
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