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The Six Perfections

The perfection of joyous effort

How to build a strong foundation for our spiritual practice with joyous effort.

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The Six Perfections

Identifying our buttons

Learning to work with our sensitivities and the power of forgiveness.

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The Six Perfections

Working with suffering

Why fortitude is important and how to work with being criticized.

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The Six Perfections

Three kinds of ethical conduct

Three kinds of ethical conduct and eleven groups of people to benefit when we can.

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The Six Perfections

We have the power to change

By taking responsibility for our ethical conduct, we can transform our lives and benefit others.

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Ethics in the Modern World

Cultivating inner peace

How transforming our mind enables us to create peace in a chaotic world.

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Working with Anger

Anger, imputations and assumptions

We impute meaning on things and expect others to agree without clarifying.

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Working with Anger

Anger and the self-centered mind

How to oppose the self-centered mind and more techniques for dealing with anger.

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Working with Anger

Contemplating the faults of anger

Two faults of anger to contemplate and why Buddhahood depends on even cockroaches.

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Working with Anger

Anger and attachment are equally unhelpful

How anger and attachment cause us to exaggerate and project qualities onto people and things.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Overcoming self-centeredness

Investigating the way self-centeredness causes problems and how to overcome it.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Seeing things clearly

Examining conventional and ultimate existence and searching for an inherent self.

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