attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Verse 17: The liar
Lying creates suffering for others and ourselves, and creates the opposite effect of what we…
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Verses 14-15: The trickster and the exhibitionist
Failing to put the teachings into practice is, in essence, stealing from those who support…
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Verse 13: Attachment to temporary pleasures
Attachment to impermanent things weighs us down in misery.
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Verse 12: Attachment to comfort
Our attachment to comfort causes us to make ludicrous demands on others, and only causes…
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Verse 11: False friends
Using others for our own gain, or being used by others for theirs. Examine why…
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Verse 9: The chains that bind us
Attachment, habitual behaviors, and doubt hinder our practice even when we go on retreat.
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Verse 8: The prison of personal entanglements
Attachment to loved ones and friends creates suffering that distracts us from our spiritual aspirations.
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Verse 7: The enemies of happiness and prosperity
Afflictive emotions like miserliness and anger only bring us misery, though we think they'll bring…
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Verse 3: The fire of anger
Clinging attachment leads to anger and suffering when our high expectations are not met. How…
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Verse 2: Attachment to sense pleasures
Our insatiable craving for sense objects is the source of our suffering.
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Verse 1: The realms of samsara
Why is it so hard to break free from the realms of cyclic existence? It's…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Review 1 of Chapter 8: Verses 184-188
The first review of chapter 8 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" continues,…
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