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Venerable Thubten Chodron Wealth is suffering
How wealth causes suffering and that it is better to strive for the wealth of…
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Compassion and personal distress
When overwhelmed by seeing suffering we may slip into personal distress. We can cultivate compassion…
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Venerable Tenzin Tsepal Meditation on compassion and personal distress
A guided meditation to help examine our experience of observing suffering and distinguish between responding…
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Alan Carr view of a personal identity grasping mine (mamakāra,...
An afflictive view holding what makes things mine as inherently existent.
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ultimate analysis (Tibetan: don dam pa’ i dpyod pa)
Analysis that examines what an object really is and its deeper mode of existence.
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substantially existent (dravyasat, dabbasat, Tibetan...
(1) Vaibhāṣikas: An object that can be identified even when broken into smaller pieces or…
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realization (adhigama, Tibetan: rtogs pa)
An awareness that eliminates superimpositions on an object and is able to induce ascertainment of…
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reviewing knowledge (Pali: paccavekkhaṇañāṇa)
In stream-enterers, oncereturners, and nonreturners, it is a knowledge in post-meditation time that reviews the…
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selflessness of persons (pudgalanairātmya, Tibetan: ...
Prāsaṅgikas: the nonexistence of a self-sufficient substantially existent person is the coarse selflessness of persons,…
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observed object (ālambana, ārammaṇa, Tibetan: dmigs ...
The basic object that the mind refers to or focuses on while apprehending certain aspects…
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own-characteristics/specific characteristics (svalak...
The specific characteristics unique to each phenomenon. Things have their own characteristics, but they do…
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primal substance (fundamental nature, prakṛti, pakat...
A truly existent substance out of which everything is created, asserted by the non-Buddhist Sāṃkhya…
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