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Obstacles
67 Articles
Unhealthy Relationships with Spiritual Teachers
Unhealthy relationships between disciples and mentors can manifest in many ways, including overdependence on the mentor, not maintaining discriminating awareness or transference and regression as known in psychotherapy.
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Student-Teacher Relationship
How to Deal with Anxiety
Tips for overcoming anxiety, to live a more confident life.
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How to ...
What Is a Damtsig or Samaya?
The Tibetan word “damtsig,” “samaya” in Sanskrit, means “close bond.” It refers to practices that create a close bond between us and a Buddha-figure or our spiritual teacher.
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Vows
Overcoming Obstacles to Realizing Renunciation, Bodhichitta and Emptiness
Learn what needs to be overcome in order to develop each of the three graded levels of motivation in lam-rim.
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The Three Scopes
Concentration Terminology
An overview of the terminology concerning different levels and types of concentration.
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Shamatha
Avoiding Difficulties in Meditation and Retreat
To deal with difficult experiences that arise in meditation and in retreat and to eliminate them, we need to know the causes of the problems.
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Shamatha
The 46 Faults Hindering Study and Practice
Maitreya enumerates 46 faults that cause interference for developing the wisdoms applicable to bodhisattvas as well as aspects of Dharma study and practice.
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Student-Teacher Relationship
Cognitive Obscurations of Arhats: Gelug Prasangika
Liberated beings (arhats) have attained a true stopping of all the emotional obscurations, but their mental continuums still contain the cognitive obscurations.
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The Five Paths
Achieving Shamatha
An analysis of how to remain focused – what are the conducive conditions and deterrents of shamatha meditation.
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Shamatha
Integrating Buddhism into Our Lives
Guidelines for effectively applying the Buddhist teachings to our lives so that they bring about positive results.
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How to Study Buddhism
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