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Mind and Mental Factors

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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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Afflictions, our real enemy

Finishing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how to see afflictions as our real enemy and…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Unhappiness fuels anger

Covering Verses 7-10 of Chapter 6, describing the evolution of how anger enters the mind,…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

The path to liberation

How to cease the twelve links, an outline of ethical practices, and the antidotes to…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Counterforces to the afflictions

Teaching from Chapter 4, describing various counterforces to the afflictions, such as anger, attachment, jealousy,…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Working with anger

Teaching on the disadvantages of anger, giving commentary to Verses 1-6 of Chapter 6 "Patience"

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Feelings and the ethical dimension of afflictions

Continuing the teachings from Chapter 4, explaining the relationship between three types of feelings and…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

The twelve links of dependent arising

The four distortions of mind, answers to questions about happiness and karmic imprints, and the…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Factors causing afflictions to arise

Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how six principal factors that cause afflictions to arise…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Antidotes to attachment

A teaching on attachment and its antidotes, and the six causes of delusion.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

The order in which afflictions arise

Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing the order in which afflictions arise according to different…

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