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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Venerable Thubten Chodron Gradual path to enlightenment
A condensed explanation of the lamrim, the gradual path to enlightenment.
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Afflictions and antidotes
Examining our actions deeply to see what is the affliction that is really causing it.
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108 Verses: A bucket in a well
Comparing how we go from one birth to another repeatedly through an analogy of bucket…
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Barbara Stewart - Apr 22, 2007
Barbara Stewart To go one’s own way
"I've never wanted to get old and look back on my life with regret." Venerable…
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Genuine aspiration and resistance
Kindness for oneself relieves the internal struggle to commit to the Dharma.
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Renunciation and joyous effort
The importance of nourishing a strong determination, armor-like joyous perseverance, and the bodhisattva's view of…
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Renounce suffering, practice joyfully
Comments on a section of the Lamrim chenmo by Lama Tsongkhapa. Explains the types and…
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Death and Dharma practice
Continuation of at talk on contemplating death, followed by advice on Dharma practice.
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Contemplating death
The benefit of contemplating our death, the disadvantages of not contemplating our death, and a…
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The truth of dukkha
Understanding dukkha helps us to cultivate the wish to be free from it.
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The mind and renunciation
The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…
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