attachment

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

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Sensual desires

Attachment to sense objects interferes with concentration while meditating. How to counteract such distractions to…

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A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness

Review: Mindfulness of the body

A discussion of the quiz questions that cover why the body, feelings, mind, and phenomena…

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Man walking out of a tunnel toward light.
Prison Poetry

Upon life’s journey

Putting the needs of others ahead of his own, an incarcerated person makes a pivotal…

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White Tara Winter Retreat 2010-11

Immeasurable love

How love, which is the wish for all sentient beings to have happiness and its…

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Teachings by Khensur Wangdak Rinpoche

Generating regret

Need to deep regret for the negative actions committed, reviewing the details, without delays by…

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A guy sitting down on grass, his hand holding a cardboard with the words: The power to choose The power to change.
On Cultivating Wisdom

Choice

A person in prison reflects on the choices he is able to make in his…

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