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Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Review 1 of Chapter 8: Verses 176-183
This first review on Chapter 8 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The three poisons
The role of self-grasping ignorance, anger, and attachment in our relationships with others.
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Venerable Thubten Tarpa Review of Chapter 6: Part 2
Part 2 of a review of Chapter 6 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle…
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A long obedience
Exodus isn't just about liberation from slavery, it's also about rebinding. Just laws, or taking…
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Eight verses of mind training: Verse 1
Our mind creates our experience of happiness or suffering based on how we interpret the…
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Venerable Thubten Samten Review of Chapter 7: Verses 156-175
A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…
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Review of Chapter 7: Verses 151-155
A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…
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Chapters 8-9: Verses 200-201
An explanation of the three kinds of compassion, dependent arising, making ourselves suitable vessels, and…
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Chapter 8: Verses 197-200
The relationship between realizing emptiness and generating bodhicitta, and why the end of afflictions is…
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Chapter 8: Self and emptiness
A discussion session that touches on the self-centered thought, how self-grasping ignorance produced afflictions, and…
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How renunciation brings happiness
Shares a message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche to the International Mahayana Institute sangha, and speaks…
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