attachment

Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.

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Books

Open Heart, Clear Mind study guide

Study guide to the book Open Heart, Clear Mind, a foundational and profound introduction to…

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Review of attachment

Venerable Thubten Nyima leads a review of the Chapter 3 section on “Emotions and Klesas,”…

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On Cultivating Wisdom

Selflessness keeps you out of SHU

From a teaching by Venerable Chodron, an incarcerated person learns to train consistently to deal…

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Emotions and klesas

Teaching on 'Emotions and Klesas', as part of Chapter 3, focusing on attachment.

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Dharma Poetry

Return to reality: Love and hate

Seemingly contradictory feelings can lead to the same prison, a prison of ignorance.

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Mind and emotions

Beginning Chapter 3: Mind and Emotions, exploring the relationship between unhappiness and non-virtue.

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New to Buddhism

Happiness through renunciation

What do we renounce? We renounce the afflictive mental states that cause negative karma.

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Cultivating Healthy Relationships

False friends

There are four kinds of false friends, who are actually foes in the guise of…

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New to Buddhism

About attachment

Attachment can be one of the three poisons, or it can be a virtuous aspiration.…

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Dharma Poetry

Poems of Human and Spirit

When we spend our time and energy moving between extremes, we are unable to step…

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Bodhisattva Path

Taking and giving

How to practice tonglen, the taking-and-giving meditation.

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Dharma in Daily Life

Being an example of love

The difference between love and attachment, and how attachment can become a real stumbling block…

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