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Open Heart, Clear Mind

Taking the ache out of attachment

Looking at how attachment causes problems and real happiness comes from letting go of attachment.

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Essence of Refined Gold

The meaning of refuge

The meaning and purpose of taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.

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Teachings by Khensur Jampa Tegchok

The truth of the origin of suffering

Looking at inappropriate attention and how it works in our mind, creating attachment and suffering.

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The truth of dukkha

Understanding dukkha helps us to cultivate the wish to be free from it.

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The mind and renunciation

The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…

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Teachings by Khensur Jampa Tegchok

Introduction

Introductory teaching on the life history of Nagarjuna, cyclic existence, karma, bodhicitta, and the meaning…

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Shantideva Teachings in Singapore

Chapter 2: Verses 40-65

The importance of keeping an awareness of death in order to focus our minds, consider…

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Shantideva Teachings in Singapore

Chapter 2: Verses 24-39

Looking at what makes life meaningful followed by a continuation of the text. These verses…

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Shantideva Teachings in Singapore

Chapter 2: Verses 7-23

Examining our motivations, considering why we face the same problems repeatedly, and the antidotes to…

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