attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The potential for liberation
Explaining the obscurations to the mind and factors for liberation, reviewing the sections, "The Mind's…
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Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) 
Attachment to the body
Commentary on verses looking at the many faults of attachment to the body.
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Incarcerated people Dealing with difficult changes
A woman in prison uses a mind training prompt to deal with a difficult situation.
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Good Karma: The four characteristics of karma
More about the characteristics of karma and how to overcome mental suffering.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro What helps at the time of death
The last three points of the nine-point death meditation and how to prepare for death.
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The danger of attachment to the body
How attachment to the body can lead to harmful and unethical actions
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Understanding ignorance
Explaining how afflictions are rooted in ignorance and how we can eradicate ignorance, continuing the…
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Afflictions are the enemy
Explaining the reason how it is possible to cultivate powerful antidotes to the afflictions, continuing…
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Venerable Thubten Ngawang Review of Chapter Six: Verses 43-44
How to counter attachment to the body by cultivating mindfulness of the body.
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Afflictions are weak
Continuing the review of Chapter 12, "Mind and Its Potential", describing how afflictions are not…
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Chapter 8: Verses 1–6
How to free yourself from attachment - commentary on verses 1-6 of Chapter 8 of…
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