attachment
Teachings on the mental affliction of attachment, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 77-80
The importance of keeping confidences, and controlling the story-making mind.
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Incarcerated people Treasure the present
Correspondence with a person in prison on the benefits of learning how to live in…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 69-72
How reminding ourselves that the afflictions are the fault of the self-centered thought gives us…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 60-63
A continuation of verses that point out our bad habits and how our self-grasping ignorance…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 43-45
Being taken advantage of, jealousy at others' good fortune. Looking at what is behind these…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 38-42
A look at the karmic causes of difficulties in our practice or difficulties overcoming the…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 22-24
These verses cover the causes of such results as disappointment from our spiritual mentors and…
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Prison of desire
Finding inner freedom by seeing our shortcomings and working to change oneself.
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Giving up married life
An interview with Venable Chodron about how she decided to become a Buddhist nun.
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Joyous effort
Cultivating antidotes to discouragement and laziness helps our Dharma practice.
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Inner peace
Overcoming the discontented mind opens the way to greater compassion. How to face our fears…
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A Buddhist perspective on friends
Buddhist teachings offer youth helpful tips in dealing with friendships: difficult friends, peer pressure, how…
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