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 Clusters of afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 3, continuing with the auxiliary afflictions, describing those derived from ignorance and…
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Auxiliary afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining the auxiliary afflictions in the Sanskrit tradition, covering the afflictions…
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“Courageous Compassion”: Reading and com...
How to develop true compassion in order to benefit all sentient beings, no self-centered strings…
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Other types of afflictions
Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, describing different types of defilements, covering afflictions and underlying tendencies.
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Afflictive views
Teaching from Chapter 3, describing the last four afflictive views and how the afflictive views…
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View of a personal identity
Teaching from Chapter 3, describing the view of a personal identity covering the coarse and…
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The root afflictions: Ignorance
Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, describing different meanings of ignorance and explaining deluded doubt.
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The root afflictions: Arrogance
Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining different types of arrogance.
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The root afflictions: Anger
Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, explaining four types of clinging, what is anger and how…
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The root afflictions: Attachment
How the afflictions cause problems and the importance of combating them. What attachment is and…
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Our human value
How reflecting on duhkha lessens attachment to worldly pleasures and leads to an aspiration for…
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Kinds of duhkha
Continuing the teachings from Chapter 2, explaining eight unsatisfactory conditions and describing characteristics of true…
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