Stages of the Path to Awakening Podcast Archives - Thubten Chodron

Completing Chapter 5, covering five types of virtues and five types of nonvirtues and starting Chapter 6, describing the evolution of the universe.

Continuing teaching from Chapter 5, explaining having-ceased and karmic seed and comparing the notions of original sin and the unconscious to latencies

Continuing teaching from Chapter 5, covering seeds and latencies of afflictions and seeds and latencies of karma.

Beginning Chapter 5, explaining different ways in which afflictions are classified and also seeds and latencies of afflictions and karma.

Finishing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how to see afflictions as our real enemy and being courageous to challenge and overcome them.

Teaching from Chapter 4, describing various counterforces to the afflictions, such as anger, attachment, jealousy, and anxiety.

Continuing the teachings from Chapter 4, explaining the relationship between three types of feelings and afflictions and ethical dimension of afflictions.

Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing how six principal factors that cause afflictions to arise get us into trouble.

Continuing teaching from Chapter 4, describing the order in which afflictions arise according to different tenet systems and factors that cause them to arise.

Completing Chapter 3, covering five hindrances and beginning Chapter 4, describing how fear, anxiety and depression arise due to afflictions.