attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Parent-child relationships
How expectations and misconceptions can lead to difficulties in parent-child relationships.
View PostFood offering: Labeling on a valid basis
In looking at the food offering we can see how things change and that we…
View PostCultivating contentment
How to practice contentment. Letting go of craving and seeing that what we have is…
View PostBeing dispassionate toward perception
The benefit of being dispassionate toward sense pleasures and material things.
View PostThe Buddha is free from fear
Why the Buddha being free from fear is important in terms of refuge, and a…
View PostFacing fears
When we're injured or ill we can fall into thinking the problem is permanent, thus…
View PostFear and wisdom fear
Fear often comes from attachment. There is a difference between panicked, afflicted fear and a…
View PostReasonable self-evaluation
We can learn to evaluate ourselves by examining our motivations and actions so that we…
View PostAttachment to reputation
Attachment to reputation and anger at criticism go hand in hand. In meditation we need…
View PostWorking on our attachments
We don't need to keep trying new things in order to see how attachment works.…
View PostQuestioning our perceptions
An explanation of how emptiness and dependent arising do not contradict each other.
View PostAn 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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