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Tag Archives: afflicted emotions
Four Strategies
All of us come to the Dharma with various degrees of wrong views, previous tendencies and conditioning, false identities, afflicted emotions, and extremely sensitive egos. It takes time and effort to leave them behind, or at least transform them sufficiently … Continue reading
Blame
A friend recently came across the statement that in order to forgive, we must first assign blame. The author went on to say that it is essential for understanding and working with the law of karma that we stop blaming … Continue reading
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Tagged actions and consequences, afflicted emotions, assign blame, assigning responsibility, beyond concepts of human morality, blame only ourselves, blaming others, Buddha Shakyamuni, capacity to be free from suffering, embrace happiness, forgive, good and evil, guilt and blame, imputing malice or evil intent, instructive, law of karma, nature, negative emotion, punitive, random universe, relationship of cause and effect, right and wrong, unwelcome consequence, wrong views
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Absences
Just like cold does not exist from its own side (it is merely the absence of heat), afflicted emotions are only absences of specific aspects of primordial wisdom. Attachment is the absence of the wisdom of discernment, aversion of mirror-like … Continue reading
Managing Afflicted Emotions
When we experience afflicted emotions, we can manage them in one or more of the following ways, according to our innate tendencies, capacity, and level of spiritual development. Whenever there is doubt as to which may be appropriate, apply renunciation … Continue reading
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Tagged afflicted emotions, all-accomplishing wisdom, aversion, capacity, chakravartins, compassion, deities in union, desire, disgust, gratitude, guru, indifference, innate tendencies, interdependence, jealousy, kindness, level of spiritual development, mirror-like wisdom, nagarajas, pride, renunciation first, Transformation, wisdom of discernment, wisdom of equality, wisdom of the expanse, wrathful protectors
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Natural Perfection
Perfection is the fundamental quality, true nature, or essential character of all sentient beings. It is described as unconditioned, boundless, nurturing, and sustaining: true purity, true self, true happiness, and true permanence. It is indiscernible to worldly vision as a … Continue reading
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Tagged afflicted emotions, boundless, community, conceptual obscurations, environment, essential character, fundamental quality, harmony, individual, nurturing, rectify function, remove obstructions, restore integrity, sentient beings, spiritual cultivation, sustaining, true happiness, true nature, True Permanence, true purity, True Self, unconditioned
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Keep a respectful distance
We wish all sentient beings complete liberation and enlightenment, and seek to assist them as much as we can, but we must recognize our present circumstances, and not place ourselves in situations in which afflicted emotions arise. We are under … Continue reading
Skill and experience
Buddha Shakyamuni lived the life of a worldly prince, then went to the forest and practiced rigorous asceticism, before his enlightenment. He thus spoke authoritatively about extreme views and behaviors that do not and cannot secure happiness. All the Buddhas … Continue reading
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Tagged afflicted emotions, bodhisattvas, Buddha Essence, Buddha Shakyamuni, Buddhas and Great Bodhisattvas, driven by the winds of karma, empathy, enlightenment, example, extreme behaviors, extreme views, happiness, ordinary human experiences, remedies, rigorous asceticism, Shakyamuni, skillful means, voluntarily assumed, worldly prince, wrong views
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