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Venerable Thubten Chodron Verse 7: The enemies of happiness and prosperity
Afflictive emotions like miserliness and anger only bring us misery, though we think they'll bring…
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Developing calm abiding
How keeping precepts helps one's meditation practice and helps in living a happier life.
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Middle way school and focusing your mind
What the self is and is not. Consciousness can be valid and mistaken at the…
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Causes and conditions for enlightenment
Understanding emptiness in the context of the entire Buddhist path, with the wish to attain…
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Dependent arising and emptiness
An understanding of cause and effect is necessary for and compatible with the realization of…
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Seeing the interdependence of phenomena
Understanding phenomena are empty of inherent existence because they are dependent arising. Avoid notion of…
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Verse 6: The mischievous slanderer, jealousy
Unable to bear the happiness of others, jealousy causes us to harm those who try…
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Verse 5: The wild horse of pride
Pride can be a stumbling block on the path, stunting our spiritual progress.
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Chapters 9-10: Verses 224-226
When investigated, the strong feeling of a personal self and identity cannot be found, and…
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Verse 4: The darkness of ignorance
Ignorance of how things exist and ignorance of karma and its effects are like dark…
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Verse 3: The fire of anger
Clinging attachment leads to anger and suffering when our high expectations are not met. How…
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Verse 2: Attachment to sense pleasures
Our insatiable craving for sense objects is the source of our suffering.
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