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 Types of duhkha
Continuing Chapter 2, covering the sections “Three Types of Duhkha”, “Feelings, Afflictions and Duhkha”, and…
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True duhkha
Teaching from Chapter 1, covering "The Nature of Each Truth” focusing on true duhkha and…
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The eight worldly concerns
Teaching on how attachment to this life keeps us bound in samsara, exploring the eight…
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The ten innermost jewels of the Kadampas
How contemplating the ten innermost jewels of the Kadampa tradition helps to overcome the eight…
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Paths for spiritual development
Beginning Chapter 8 “A Systematic Approach” and covering the section “Paths for Spiritual Development” explaining…
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Review of fear, anger and disillusionment
Venerable Thubten Lamsel reviews pages 48-52, covering the topics of fear, anger and disillusionment.
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Homage to great compassion
A commentary on Chandrakirti's text explaining three kinds of compassion, and how compassion is the…
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Venerable Thubten Chonyi Review of the four truths
Venerable Thubten Chonyi gives a review of the four truths, focusing on the truth of…
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The three higher trainings and the eight fold path
The three higher trainings—ethics, concentration and wisdom—are explained with the practices of the eightfold noble…
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Anger and disillusionment
Covering the sections in Chapter 3 on anger, disillusionment, and the emotions and survival.
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Happiness through renunciation
What do we renounce? We renounce the afflictive mental states that cause negative karma.
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