Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, describing different types of defilements, covering afflictions and underlying tendencies.
Other types of afflictions
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.
Afflictive views
Teaching from Chapter 3, describing the last four afflictive views and how the afflictive views impede spiritual practice.
View of a personal identity
Teaching from Chapter 3, describing the view of a personal identity covering the coarse and subtle grasping.
The root afflictions: Ignorance
Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, describing different meanings of ignorance and explaining deluded doubt.
The root afflictions: Arrogance
Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining different types of arrogance.
The root afflictions: Anger
Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, explaining four types of clinging, what is anger and how it functions.
The root afflictions: Attachment
How the afflictions cause problems and the importance of combating them. What attachment is and how it differs from aspiration.
Our human value
How reflecting on duhkha lessens attachment to worldly pleasures and leads to an aspiration for liberation and awakening.
Kinds of duhkha
Continuing the teachings from Chapter 2, explaining eight unsatisfactory conditions and describing characteristics of true duhkha through ten points.
Types of duhkha
Continuing Chapter 2, covering the sections “Three Types of Duhkha”, “Feelings, Afflictions and Duhkha”, and “Six Disadvantages of Cyclic Existence”.