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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Afflictions and karma, their seeds and latencies

Starting Chapter 5, describing the different classifications of afflictions and covering seeds and latencies of…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

The benefits of difficulties

Covering Verses 8-14 of Chapter 6, discussing the benefits of meditating on duhkha (suffering) and…

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Mind and Mental Factors

Know your mind: Virtuous mental factors

Explanation of the virtuous mental factors of nonattachment, nonhatred, nonconfusion, joyous effort, pliancy, conscientiousness, equanimity,…

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Mind and Mental Factors

Know your mind: Object-ascertaining and virtuous men...

Explanation of the five object-ascertaining mental factors and the first three virtuous mental factors —faith,…

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Mind and Mental Factors

Know your mind: Omnipresent mental factors

The similarities shared by main minds and mental factors, and the five omnipresent mental factors…

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Mind and Mental Factors

Know your mind: Introduction to minds and mental fac...

An overview of the definition of mind, sense and mental consciousnesses. Explanation of main minds…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Afflictions, our real enemy

Finishing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how to see afflictions as our real enemy and…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Unhappiness fuels anger

Covering Verses 7-10 of Chapter 6, describing the evolution of how anger enters the mind,…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

The path to liberation

How to cease the twelve links, an outline of ethical practices, and the antidotes to…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Compassionate communication

How to bring compassion to our communication and how to look at situations objectively without…

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Cultivating the Four Immeasurables

Meditation on compassion for our enemies

A guided analytical meditation to cultivate compassion for those we have difficulty with or who…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Counterforces to the afflictions

Teaching from Chapter 4, describing various counterforces to the afflictions, such as anger, attachment, jealousy,…

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