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Meditation

How to meditate: An interview with Venerable Sangye ...

The main obstacles for beginners learning to meditate and how to overcome them to achieve…

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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: Seven types of mind and awareness

Explanation of the remaining five of the seven types of mind and the progression from…

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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: Direct perceivers and inferential co...

An explanation of the first two of the seven types of mind – direct perceivers…

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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: Perception and conception

The conditions that lead to a conceptual mind. The division of minds into perception and…

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Mind and Awareness

Know your mind: What is the mind?

Why it’s important to understand the mind, the mind and happiness and suffering, the nature…

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Wisdom

Why we need wisdom

Why we need wisdom and the types of wisdom we can cultivate.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Auxiliary afflictions

Teaching from Chapter 3, explaining the auxiliary afflictions in the Sanskrit tradition, covering the afflictions…

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Volume 6 Courageous Compassion

“Courageous Compassion”: Reading and com...

How to develop true compassion in order to benefit all sentient beings, no self-centered strings…

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Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions

Combating anxiety with a meditative mind

Ways that Buddhist practices of love and compassion for others can help those suffering from…

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Wisdom

How things exist

What samsara is and how realizing emptiness helps us to get out of it.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Other types of afflictions

Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, describing different types of defilements, covering afflictions and underlying tendencies.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Afflictive views

Teaching from Chapter 3, describing the last four afflictive views and how the afflictive views…

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