attachment

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

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Exploring Monastic Life 2009

The Greater Discourse on the “Lion’s Roar Sutt...

Don't waste your time practicing ascetiscism, but do develop the fortitude to practice. Making the…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2009

The benefits of community life

There is nothing wrong with enjoying the happiness of this life: it is attachment to…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2009

The noble search

A realistic view of monastic life; commentaries on sutras. How taking vows, engaging in ethical…

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Venerable Damcho after her ordinaton ceremony.
On Refuge and Bodhicitta

Meaning in life by benefiting others

Having the desire to be of benefit to all sentient beings through thought, speech, and…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Meditation on love

How love is different from attachment and the benefits of cultivating love.

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Cover of Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path.
On Working with Afflictions

The Dharma works

It is freeing to realize that happiness does not depend on what material possessions we…

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Teachings by Geshe Sopa

Chapter 6: Verses 31-45

Contemplating precious human life and the third kind of patience—the patience of not retaliating

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Teachings by Geshe Sopa

Chapter 6: Verses 1-7

A teaching on the harmfulness of anger and hatred; tracing the arising of anger.

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