attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Thubten Jampel 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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Venerable Thubten Chonyi The Buddha is free from fear
Why the Buddha being free from fear is important in terms of refuge, and a…
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Venerable Thubten Tarpa Facing fears
When we're injured or ill we can fall into thinking the problem is permanent, thus…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Fear and wisdom fear
Fear often comes from attachment. There is a difference between panicked, afflicted fear and a…
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Reasonable self-evaluation
We can learn to evaluate ourselves by examining our motivations and actions so that we…
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Attachment to reputation
Attachment to reputation and anger at criticism go hand in hand. In meditation we need…
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Working on our attachments
We don't need to keep trying new things in order to see how attachment works.…
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Questioning our perceptions
An explanation of how emptiness and dependent arising do not contradict each other.
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An interview with a newly ordained monastic
Venerable Thubten Chonyi talks candidly to Awaken magazine of her decision to follow the monastic…
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The pitfalls of perfectionism
Developing conviction in the Dharma teachings and how to approach the Dharma in a constructive…
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Motivation for the retreat
Generating the proper motivation for doing retreat and examining ways to work with the mind,…
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