attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Western Buddhist nuns
What it's like to be a Buddhist nun in the West, the challenges faced and…
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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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