attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Verse 79: Freeing the mind from attachment
On how attachment to the most trivial things binds our mind to cyclic existence.
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Friends, enemies and strangers
A guided meditation on cultivating equanimity as a way of getting off the emotional roller-coaster…
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The person and the aggregates
If the person cannot be found in the aggregates, does it exist separate from the…
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The taking-and-giving meditation
Commentary on verses from Nagarjuna's Precious Garland of Advice for a King that are the…
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Equanimity: Changing our conceptions of others
Developing equanimity means changing our view of others and how we categorize them as friend,…
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Developing equanimity
Developing equal care and concern for others sets the foundation for cultivating bodhicitta.
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How to practice between sessions
Seeing our afflictions as mere mind moments that have a similar "flavor" to which we…
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Cultivating wisdom
Advice on how to cultivate wisdom to counteract our wrong views while on retreat.
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What is retreat?
The meaning of retreat is not finding the perfect external environment, but retreating from the…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye The misery of attachment
Investigating the affliction of attachment and how it leads to dissatisfaction and dukkha. Changing our…
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The secondary afflictions
Final teaching on the root afflictions and beginning explanation on the 20 secondary afflictions, with…
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Virtuous mental factors and root afflictions
Explanation of the last four virtuous mental factors and the first two root afflictions.
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