attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Rejoicing in others’ qualities
Covering Verses 74-79 of Chapter 5, discussing the transformative practice of rejoicing in others' qualities,…
View PostActing appropriately
Covering Verses 71 - 75 of Chapter 5, discussing practical advice about how to do…
View PostGood Karma: The eight worldly concerns
How subduing the eight worldly concerns is the first step in living a spiritual or…
View PostThe filth of the body
Covers Verses 5.60-5.70, discussing how to cultivate a sense of the body's lack of cleanliness,…
View PostResolute and stable
Covering Verses 5.54-5.60 on how to be resolute in the Dharma practice, cultivate mental stability,…
View PostHow to act when afflictions arise
Covers Verses 46-54 of Chapter 5 discussing skilful ways to act when afflictions arise
View PostReceiving an initiation
What does it mean to receive a tantric initiation? Types of initiation and the qualities…
View PostThe root afflictions: Anger
Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, explaining four types of clinging, what is anger and how…
View PostThe root afflictions: Attachment
How the afflictions cause problems and the importance of combating them. What attachment is and…
View PostRecollecting the Buddha
Covering Verses 31-35 of Chapter 5, discussing how mindfulness and introspection arise, and how to…
View PostTypes of duhkha
Continuing Chapter 2, covering the sections “Three Types of Duhkha”, “Feelings, Afflictions and Duhkha”, and…
View PostGuarding the mind
Covering Verses 19-30 of Chapter 5, discussing the reasons we must guard our mind and…
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