Completing Chapter 4, describing how to use afflictions to overcome afflictions and seeing afflictions as our enemy and courageously counteracting them.
Afflictions, our real enemy
Weekly teachings on Tibetan Buddhist lamrim texts. Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches texts on the stages of the path to awakening or lamrim, showing clearly how to meditate on them and apply these teachings in our daily lives. Get the podcast on TuneIn Radio. Streamed live from Sravasti Abbey on Fridays at 6:15 pm PST.
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Weekly teachings on Tibetan Buddhist lamrim texts. Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches texts on the stages of the path to awakening or lamrim, showing clearly how to meditate on them and apply these teachings in our daily lives. Get the podcast on TuneIn Radio. Streamed live from Sravasti Abbey on Fridays at 6:15 pm PST.
Counterforces to the afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 4, describing various counterforces to the afflictions, such as anger, attachment, arrogance and jealousy.
Feelings and the ethical dimension of afflictions
Continuing the teachings from Chapter 4, explaining the relationship between three types of feelings and afflictions and ethical dimension of afflictions.
Factors causing afflictions to arise
Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how six principal factors that cause afflictions to arise get us into trouble.
The order in which afflictions arise
Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing the order in which afflictions arise according to different tenet systems and factors that cause them to arise.
Eighty-four thousand afflictions
Completing Chapter 3, covering five hindrances and beginning Chapter 4, describing how fear, anxiety and depression arise due to afflictions.
Fetters and pollutants
Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, covering the fetters and pollutants as described in the Pali Tradition.
Auxiliary afflictions in the Pali tradition
Teaching from Chapter 3, describing the auxiliary afflictions from the Pali tradition.
Clusters of afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 3, continuing with the auxiliary afflictions, describing those derived from ignorance and multiple root afflictions.
Auxiliary afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining the auxiliary afflictions in the Sanskrit tradition, covering the afflictions derived from anger, attachment and ignorance.