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