attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Incarcerated people Strong attachment to desire
The feelings of a formerly incarcerated person and his gratitude to the Dharma.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron What are your non-negotiables?
Retreatants discuss what they can't let go of in their lives, and come to realize…
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37 Practices: Verses 16-21
Humility; enemies are created by anger; learning to slowly chip away at our -o'holic mind.
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Just go free-form
Taking refuge when something strange comes in the mind; how wonderful to be able to…
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Ignorance, anger, purification
Retreat discussion on topics such as the four distortions, how anger destroys merit, using pain…
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37 Practices: Verses 1-3
Making the lamrim personal, changing environments to change negative habits, and relaxing as we see…
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Renunciation and bodhicitta
We can end our grasping at the illusory happiness of our lives and learn to…
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Explanation of the extensive offering practice
An explanation of the symbolism of the extensive offerings practice; imagining vast offerings in order…
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What is important at the time of death
A guided meditation on imagining our own death. How to practice in preparation for death…
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Finding true happiness
Looking for happiness in all the wrong places? True happiness and contentment are not created…
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Losing a dear one who was young
A letter from a student questioning the reason for the loss of her younger sister.
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Growing through the Dharma
A person in prison shows how through thought transformation, we can find some good even…
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