attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The emptiness of inherent existence
How realizing emptiness helps to relax our mind, reduce attachment, and release anger and confusion.…
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Developing a kind heart
The importance of developing loving kindness, an open-hearted care for others.
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Venerable Thubten Tarpa The four opponent powers for purification
The importance of purifying negative karma and how to use the four opponent powers in…
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Simplifying our lives
Letting go of life's complications by giving up the dissatisfied mind and closing down the…
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Chapter 3: Verses 10-20
How to look at our experiences of hurt or betrayal from a Dharma point of…
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Enlightening the path in our hearts
Are you dealing with hard situations in life or having difficulties with others? Daily meditation…
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Living a balanced life and making wise choices
Practical advice on how to live a balanced life and make wise, beneficial decisions.
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Five hindrances to concentration
A teaching on the five hindrances to concentration according to the Pali canon.
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Disappointment and delight—the eight worldly c...
Confronting the eight worldly concerns will transform our attachments and emotional afflictions into happiness and…
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The determination to be free
Understanding the meaning of renunciation, what we are wishing to be free from, the effects…
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Incarcerated people Letting go of attachments
A chocolate cake, a chuck steak or the love of another person—can they make us…
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Buddha nature and precious human life
Seeing our potential and the conducive circumstances we have to actualize it.
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