attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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The filth of the body
Covers Verses 5.60-5.70, discussing how to cultivate a sense of the body's lack of cleanliness,…
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Resolute and stable
Covering Verses 5.54-5.60 on how to be resolute in the Dharma practice, cultivate mental stability,…
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How to act when afflictions arise
Covers Verses 46-54 of Chapter 5 discussing skilful ways to act when afflictions arise
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Receiving an initiation
What does it mean to receive a tantric initiation? Types of initiation and the qualities…
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The root afflictions: Anger
Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, explaining four types of clinging, what is anger and how…
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The root afflictions: Attachment
How the afflictions cause problems and the importance of combating them. What attachment is and…
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Recollecting the Buddha
Covering Verses 31-35 of Chapter 5, discussing how mindfulness and introspection arise, and how to…
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Types of duhkha
Continuing Chapter 2, covering the sections “Three Types of Duhkha”, “Feelings, Afflictions and Duhkha”, and…
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Guarding the mind
Covering Verses 19-30 of Chapter 5, discussing the reasons we must guard our mind and…
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Four attributes of true origins
Continuing Chapter 1, explaining four attributes of true duhkha and four attributes of true origins.
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Four attributes of true duhkha
How the fisrt and second attributes of true duhkha counter the distorted conceptions.
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The origin of duhkha
Continuing to teach from Chapter 1, covering "The Nature of Each Truth", explaining pervasive duhkha…
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