renunciation
Renunciation, or the determination to be free, is the attitude aspiring to be free from all suffering and to attain the liberation that is freedom from cyclic existence.
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Chapter 2: Verses 36-38
Geshe Thabkhe gives teachings on abandoning the belief in pleasure and refutes that anything that…
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Bad friends and why we don’t need them
Looking at how we are affected by the people we spend our time with, and…
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Chapters 2-3: Verses 45-52
How what is seen as pleasurable in samsara is actually a small discomfort replacing a…
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Looking at death and dealing with loss
How remembering death can make life meaningful, causing us to think about the choices we…
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Chapter 2: Abandoning belief in pleasure
The unsatisfactory nature of the pleasures of cyclic existence and how they cannot bring real,…
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Chapters 1-2: Verses 25-34
How the mistaken view of the body as a source of pleasure leads to dukkha,…
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Chapter 1: Verses 11-24
How practicing the Dharma will be of the greatest benefit at the time of death,…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Review of Chapter 1: Remembering death
Meditations on death. How remembering death give us an incentive to practice.
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Venerable Thubten Jigme Calming the mind, simplifying our lives
How to work with our minds, looking internally at the causes of problems, and decrease…
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Chapter 1: Verses 1-10
The benefits of reflecting on death, how to contemplate death with wisdom, and refuting misconceptions…
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Chapter 1: Abandoning belief in permanence
An introduction to the text "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" by Aryadeva, the study…
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