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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Clusters of afflictions

Teaching from Chapter 3, continuing with the auxiliary afflictions, describing those derived from ignorance and…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Auxiliary afflictions

Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining the auxiliary afflictions in the Sanskrit tradition, covering the afflictions…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Other types of afflictions

Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, describing different types of defilements, covering afflictions and underlying tendencies.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Afflictive views

Teaching from Chapter 3, describing the last four afflictive views and how the afflictive views…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

View of a personal identity

Teaching from Chapter 3, describing the view of a personal identity covering the coarse and…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

The root afflictions: Ignorance

Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, describing different meanings of ignorance and explaining deluded doubt.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

The root afflictions: Anger

Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, explaining four types of clinging, what is anger and how…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

The root afflictions: Attachment

How the afflictions cause problems and the importance of combating them. What attachment is and…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Our human value

How reflecting on duhkha lessens attachment to worldly pleasures and leads to an aspiration for…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Kinds of duhkha

Continuing the teachings from Chapter 2, explaining eight unsatisfactory conditions and describing characteristics of true…

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