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Venerable Thubten Chodron Afflictions and karma, their seeds and latencies
Starting Chapter 5, describing the different classifications of afflictions and covering seeds and latencies of…
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The benefits of difficulties
Covering Verses 8-14 of Chapter 6, discussing the benefits of meditating on duhkha (suffering) and…
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Cheri Langston Using the Dharma to manage an unpredictable illness
A students uses her Dharma practice to face adversity, and then uses that same adversity…
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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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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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