attachment

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

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Western Monastics

Western Buddhist nuns

What it's like to be a Buddhist nun in the West, the challenges faced and…

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The Eight Dangers

Staving off the flood

Strengthening our precepts and practice helps to fortify our minds against the flood of attachment…

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Attachment to ideas

Try something different! How attachment to ideas creates conflict and unhappiness in our lives.

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Attachment to personal identity

Sometimes going to a new environment gives us more space to relate to things and…

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Varieties of attachment

Under the right conditions we can become attached to anything, exaggerating the good qualities of…

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The flood of attachment

Attachment and craving cause us to create non-virtue in this life and also propel us…

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The courage to be happy

In protecting us from miserliness, Tara is giving us the courage to be happy.

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Letting go of self

The materialistic view that sees the afflictions as hard-wired into us versus the Buddhist view…

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The chain of miserliness

We need to develop a realistic view of just what our situation is—bound in cyclic…

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Cultivating respect for karma

Not having a correct understanding of cause and effect leads to ignorance that our actions…

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The elephant of ignorance

Intoxication with sense pleasures causes us to be unaware of the results of our actions.

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The lion of pride

Pride comes from an inflated sense of selfhood, either thinking oneself superior or inferior. True…

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