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Venerable Thubten Chodron How to recognize or identify our afflictions
How the body and mind give us clues when afflictions are at play.
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How intoxicants affect mindfulness and introspective...
Bringing our attention to the role of intoxicants in the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh.
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Afflictions arise with a happy or angry mind
Encouraging us to be mindful of the afflictions playing in the background of our mind.
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Holding others as supreme
The second verse of the "Eight Verses of Thought Transformation," in connection with the developments…
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Supporting the Dharma practitioner
There is merit in supporting the Dharma practitioner, but we also need to practice the…
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Practice, study, and offer service
Each of us needs to find the right combination of study, practice, and service that…
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Commitments and monotony
We need to keep up our practice because the benefit comes from its cumulative effect.
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Happiness through renunciation
What do we renounce? We renounce the afflictive mental states that cause negative karma.
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The meaning of enlightenment
A small part of enlightenment can be just the intention to let go of our…
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Relationships with parents
Meditating on the kindness of our parents is recommended as one way to develop bodhicitta.…
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