attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Ignorance, anger, purification
Retreat discussion on topics such as the four distortions, how anger destroys merit, using pain…
View Post37 Practices: Verses 1-3
Making the lamrim personal, changing environments to change negative habits, and relaxing as we see…
View PostRenunciation and bodhicitta
We can end our grasping at the illusory happiness of our lives and learn to…
View PostExplanation of the extensive offering practice
An explanation of the symbolism of the extensive offerings practice; imagining vast offerings in order…
View PostWhat is important at the time of death
A guided meditation on imagining our own death. How to practice in preparation for death…
View PostFinding true happiness
Looking for happiness in all the wrong places? True happiness and contentment are not created…
View PostLosing a dear one who was young
A letter from a student questioning the reason for the loss of her younger sister.
View PostGrowing through the Dharma
A person in prison shows how through thought transformation, we can find some good even…
View PostPurifying negative karma
Using the retreat experience to purify the root delusions of pride and attachment.
View PostLetting go of “me,” “I,” and...
We value good karma more than money and possessions. Accumulating mental and emotional wealth.
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