attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron 108 Verses: Verses 48-52
How we need to be receptive vessels for teachings and to develop our understanding through…
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Colleagues and clients
Bringing our practice into the workplace to transform habitual ways of relating to others.
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Helping the dying
Reducing attachment to the body and examining ways we can be of benefit to those…
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Five forces at time of death
What happens after we die and looking at our attachment to the body, starting to…
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Death and peace of mind
A short explanation of the Amitabha Buddha practice followed by suggestions on dealing with our…
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Death meditation
The nine-point death meditation and the importance of practicing the Dharma now as a means…
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Contemplating death
Ignoring the reality of death is often the norm, but there are benefits to contemplating…
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Thubten Jampel Friendship
The importance of cultivating positive relationships. How we can love others without being attached to…
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Parent-child relationships
How expectations and misconceptions can lead to difficulties in parent-child relationships.
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Food offering: Labeling on a valid basis
In looking at the food offering we can see how things change and that we…
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Cultivating contentment
How to practice contentment. Letting go of craving and seeing that what we have is…
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Being dispassionate toward perception
The benefit of being dispassionate toward sense pleasures and material things.
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