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Texts to Recite and Contemplate

The Heart of Wisdom Sutra

Recording of the Sravasti Abbey sangha chanting the Heart of Wisdom Sutra, accompanied by the…

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Mind and Mental Factors

Lack of faith, forgetfulness, non-introspective aler...

How to be aware of mental factors that affect our practice and how to develop…

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Concealment, lethargy, laziness

How the afflictions related to ignorance impede spiritual progress and how to overcome them.

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Complacency, agitation

Teachings on the afflictions derived from attachment and antidotes to them.

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Analyzing grudge holding

How to examine our mind when we hold a grudge.

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Wrath, vengeance, spite, jealousy

Summary of disturbing attitudes that arise from anger and specific antidotes.

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Holding wrong ethics, wrong views as supreme

Examining our mind to identify wrong views.

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Jigta

How the mental factor of ignorance holds on to a solid self and analysis to…

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Afflictive doubts, afflictive views

How wrong views and doubts keep us in cyclic existence.

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Objects of attachment and antidotes

How attachment keeps us in cyclic existence and ways to overcome that.

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Reflections on mind training

Sharing personal experiences to highlight the importance of watching our mind.

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A nun stands by a lake with open meadow and trees.
Mind and Mental Factors

Attachment

How the afflictions such as attachment are concepts created by our mind.

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