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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Lay guests read the food offering prayer as monastics listen standing behind an alms bowl with food.
Monastic Life

The practice of generosity

Why Buddhist monastics do not work for a living and give the Dharma freely.

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Gomchen Lamrim

Generating renunciation

Renunciation is one of the milestones to awakening. The measure of having produced the mind…

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Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Chapter 4: Verses 339-348

Refuting inherently existent feelings of pleasure and objects of pleasure. Pleasure and happiness exist conventionally…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Gomchen Lamrim review: Birth, aging, sickness, and d...

How to reflect on the dukkha of birth, aging, sickness and death to generate the…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Reflecting on the six types of dukkha

Contemplating the six unsatisfactory conditions of cyclic existence strengthens the determination to be free and…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Contemplating the eight types of dukkha, part 2

Explanation of meditating on the eight types of dukkha is continued with the last four.…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Contemplating the eight types of dukkha, part 1

How to contemplate in detail the unsatisfactory nature of birth, aging, sickness, and death in…

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Portrait of Venerable Chodron
Western Monastics

Comrades in alms

Tricycle Magazine interviews Venerable Thubten Chodron about the challenges and joys of being a monk…

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Essence of a Human Life

Living in the joy of the Dharma

The dedication verse encourages us to turn away from the hustle and bustle of our…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Overview of the stages of the path

The conclusion of the teaching series with a broad overview of all the stages of…

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Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Chapter 1: Verses 33-36

How self-grasping arises in dependence upon the aggregates and the order that selflessness of persons…

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Venerable Chodron teaching in Jakarta, 2015.
Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Dispositions, motivations, and practices

An overview of the motivations and practices that comprise the three levels of the path.

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