attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Meditation on emptiness
How to deal with attachment to what others think of us; meditating on compassion and…
View PostRegard for the spiritual mentor
The benefit we receive by contemplating the kindness of our teachers, training our minds to…
View PostResistance to meditation on emptiness
How to work with resistance and unmet expectations during retreat. How do we feel close…
View PostThe 12 links of dependent arising
Ending the 12 links of dependent arising, correcting wrong views in how we perceive a…
View PostThe truth of the origin of suffering
Looking at inappropriate attention and how it works in our mind, creating attachment and suffering.
View PostThe mind and renunciation
The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…
View PostIntroduction
Introductory teaching on the life history of Nagarjuna, cyclic existence, karma, bodhicitta, and the meaning…
View PostThe Buddhist worldview
To practice the Dharma, or even to live a happy life, it is important to…
View PostChapter 2: Verses 24-39
Looking at what makes life meaningful followed by a continuation of the text. These verses…
View PostSelf-centeredness and being spiritually stuck
How to overcome our own worst enemy and progress spiritually.
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