Library of Wisdom and Compassion
Teachings on His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s commentary on the stages of the path for a Western audience.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Virtue, nonvirtue, merit, and roots of nonvirtue
Completing Chapter 5, covering five types of virtues and five types of nonvirtues and starting…
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Having-ceased
Continuing teaching from Chapter 5, explaining having-ceased and karmic seed and comparing the notions of…
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More on seeds and latencies
Continuing teaching from Chapter 5, covering seeds and latencies of afflictions and seeds and latencies…
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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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Afflictions, our real enemy
Finishing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how to see afflictions as our real enemy and…
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Counterforces to the afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 4, describing various counterforces to the afflictions, such as anger, attachment, jealousy,…
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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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Factors causing afflictions to arise
Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how six principal factors that cause afflictions to arise…
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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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Eighty-four thousand afflictions
Completing Chapter 3, covering five hindrances and beginning Chapter 4, describing how fear, anxiety and…
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Fetters and pollutants
Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, covering the fetters and pollutants as described in the Pali…
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Auxiliary afflictions in the Pali tradition
Teaching from Chapter 3, describing the auxiliary afflictions from the Pali tradition.
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