attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
Latest Posts
View all posts in Venerable Thubten Chodron's teaching archive.
The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 1-4
An explanation of verses 1-4. How to reflect on the verses and apply them to…
View Post
Offering ourselves to the Buddhas
Continuing the commentary on Chapter 2, Verses 42-57: covering generating regret for negativities and seeking…
View Post
Intention, karmic paths and afflictions
Describing how the ten non-virtues can be distinguished from each other in terms of being…
View Post
Three nonvirtues of mind
Explaining the ten non-virtues, covering idle talk, and the three non-virtues of mind: covetousness, malice…
View Post
Verbal non-virtues
Continuing the explanation of ten non-virtues, covering the third physical non-virtue and the first three…
View Post
How to deal with afflictions
Advice for dealing with afflictive emotions. Guided meditation on investigating afflictive emotions.
View Post
Miserliness, attachment and doubt
The last three of the eight dangers—miserliness, attachment and doubt—their faults, and the antidotes to…
View Post
Living the Buddha’s teachings in the 21st century
Using the Buddha's teachings to work with the mind and deal with contemporary issues including…
View Post
Reflecting on impermanence
Teaching on generating the sense of closeness with others and outlining the meditation to develop…
View Post
Nine-point death meditation
Teaching nine-point death meditation, from the section “Learning from Our Own Mortality” in Chapter 9.
View Post
The Middle Way view
Talking about heart-warming love and compassion and teaching on attachment to inherently existent things and…
View Post
Love and compassion
Speaking on developing close relationships without attachment and teaching on the meaning of love and…
View Post