A response to a student’s email about how to find hope and wisdom in times of difficulty.
It’s never hopeless
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Questions on practice
Interview on topics such as the role of monastics, compassion and the world, a simple practice to add meaning to life, learning about other Buddhist traditions.
Attributes of true paths: Accomplishment and irreversible
The last two attributes of true paths and encouragement to meditate on all 16 attributes.
Attributes of true paths: Path and suitable
Why it’s important to know that there is a path to liberation and that it is the true antidote to our suffering.
Attributes of true cessations: Magnificent and Freedom
Why nirvana is magnificent and definite emergence from cyclic existence.
Attributes of true cessations: Cessation and peace
Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches on the first two attributes of true cessations.
Attributes of true origins: Conditions
How craving and karma function as conditions that create suffering in cyclic existence as well.
Attributes of true origins: Strong producers
The importance of keeping in mind how our suffering is caused by our ignorance, afflictions, and karma, not an external cause.
Attributes of true origins: Origin
Why the origins of cyclic existence are numerous, not singular, and how this helps us to generate renunciation
Attributes of true origins: Cause
How our state of existence in samsara has a cause, it is not random.