attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Love and attachment
How to not only recognize the difference between love and attachment but how to be…
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Imagining your death
The Buddhist practice of meditation on our own deaths can free our minds from the…
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Nine-point death meditation
By reflecting carefully and thoroughly on death and impermanence, we reach the conclusion that we…
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Precious human rebirth
How we can use our precious human life to advance ourselves on the Dharma path.
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The eight worldly concerns
How to work with mental obstacles that keep us from practicing the Dharma.
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Renunciation
We are stuck in cyclic existence. Through the teachings, we see the problems of cyclic…
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The preliminaries
How the Buddhist teachings plant in our minds the seed of the realizations that will…
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Interfaith philosophies
Clarifying the various Buddhist views on what the present and future lives mean.
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Lama Tsongkhapa - Apr 16, 2002
Lama Tsongkhapa The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
Verses on the essence of the path to awakening by Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Balancing the spiritual and material
Teaching on finding the middle way between the two extremes of asceticism and indulgence.
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The four noble truths
The truths of suffering and the causes of suffering, and cultivating a proper motivation for…
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Mind, rebirth, and liberation
What happens to the mindstream continuum after death and the causes and conditions that influence…
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