Venerable Thubten Lamsel reviews Chapters 6 and 7 of “Approaching the Buddhist Path”.
Review of chapters 6 and 7
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Chapter 8: Verses 4-7
Investigating our own experience to see the disadvantages of clinging attachment and develop love and compassion based on equanimity.
Chapter 8: Verses 1-3
The practice of abandoning the distorted conceptions of the eight worldly concerns.
Working in the world
Beginning Chapter 12 “Working in the World,” covering the sections “Good Health and Dealing with Illness and Injury” and “Maintaining a Positive Attitude.”
Cultivating love and compassion, a review
Venerable Tenzin Tsepal leads a review of the section “Cultivating Love and Compassion” from Chapter 3.
Why?
Poetry from inside a state prison.
Faith, purification, and merit
Continuing the teaching from Chapter 9, ‘Tools for the Path’, exploring the ideas of faith, purification and merit.
Thought transformation: Changing perspective when problems arise
How thought transformation practices can be used to transform problems into something useful and beneficial.
Ordination is a wonderous deed
How to benefit others according to our capacity, and commentary to the advice following the siksamana ordination.
Ethical conduct
Exploring the meaning of ethics and morality, its benefits, and how to cultivate and protect one’s ethical conduct.