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Exploring Monastic Life 2021

Living a happy monastic life

The key factors that lead to having a happy mind as a monastic and living…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2021

Monastic precepts and community life

How monastic precepts and community life are set up to help work with our afflictions…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Antidotes to attachment

A teaching on attachment and its antidotes, and the six causes of delusion.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2021

The five precepts

How the five precepts guide how we live and relate to each other for the…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

The order in which afflictions arise

Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing the order in which afflictions arise according to different…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Compassion and empathy review

Further commentary on how empathy is important in being compassionate, how to develop empathy and…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Guided meditation on compassion

A guided meditation to make the mind more familiar and more habituated to the feeling…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Eighty-four thousand afflictions

Completing Chapter 3, covering five hindrances and beginning Chapter 4, describing how fear, anxiety and…

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Dharma Poetry

I love problems

Making up a list of things to fix (in other people). Is this where joy…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Meditating on suffering (continued)

How meditating on suffering gives rise to renunciation and a discussion about the root of…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Fetters and pollutants

Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, covering the fetters and pollutants as described in the Pali…

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