Tag: definition
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Medication and Meditation
What’s The Use?The purpose of the 5th Lamrim meditation is to encourage us to lead a virtuous life and purify our past non-virtuous actions. By doing so, we can take human rebirths in the future that possess both physical and mental freedoms and endowments required for studying and practising Dharma. Here, freedom means not only freedom…
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Six Perfections
Six Perfections. The essential virtues of Buddhism and how they can help cultivate inner peace, happiness, and enlightenment.
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Lamrim for Alcoholics
21 Lamrim Meditations for AlcoholicsRecognise the preciousness of human life and the opportunity to recover from addiction.Contemplate the impermanence of life and the fleeting nature of alcohol-induced pleasure.Reflect on the disadvantages of addiction and the harm it brings to oneself and others.Meditate on the suffering of addiction and the desire to be free from it.Develop…
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An Easy Alcoholism Definition – No Such Thing!
Alcoholics AnonymousI would like to offer a perspective on the complex issue of alcoholism. The definition of alcoholism is a highly debated topic and there is often difficulty in reaching a consensus, even within organisations such as AA, the world’s largest addiction organisation, where I have been a member for over 15 years. Despite years…