Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature
Teachings on duhkha, the determination to be free of samsara, and the mind as the basis for samsara and nirvana.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Karma and our environment
Continuing teaching from Chapter 6, covering the interaction between the mind and external world and…
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Mind and the external world
Continuing teaching from Chapter 6, covering the evolution of the universe and the relationship between…
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Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha nature
An overview of "Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature," Volume 3 of The Library of Wisdom…
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Venerable Tenzin Tsepal 
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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