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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The Foundation of Buddhist Practice
An overview of and short reading from "The Foundation of Buddhist Practice," Volume 2 of…
View PostApproaching the Buddhist Path
An overview of and short reading from "Approaching the Buddhist Path," Volume 1 of The…
View PostVirtue, nonvirtue, merit, and roots of nonvirtue
Completing Chapter 5, covering five types of virtues and five types of nonvirtues and starting…
View PostHaving-ceased
Continuing teaching from Chapter 5, explaining having-ceased and karmic seed and comparing the notions of…
View PostMore on seeds and latencies
Continuing teaching from Chapter 5, covering seeds and latencies of afflictions and seeds and latencies…
View PostAfflictions and karma, their seeds and latencies
Starting Chapter 5, describing the different classifications of afflictions and covering seeds and latencies of…
View PostAfflictions, our real enemy
Finishing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how to see afflictions as our real enemy and…
View PostCounterforces to the afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 4, describing various counterforces to the afflictions, such as anger, attachment, jealousy,…
View PostFeelings and the ethical dimension of afflictions
Continuing the teachings from Chapter 4, explaining the relationship between three types of feelings and…
View PostFactors causing afflictions to arise
Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how six principal factors that cause afflictions to arise…
View PostThe order in which afflictions arise
Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing the order in which afflictions arise according to different…
View PostEighty-four thousand afflictions
Completing Chapter 3, covering five hindrances and beginning Chapter 4, describing how fear, anxiety and…
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