Stages of the Path to Awakening Podcast Archives - Thubten Chodron

How the afflictions cause problems and the importance of combating them. What attachment is and how it differs from aspiration.

How reflecting on duhkha lessens attachment to worldly pleasures and leads to an aspiration for liberation and awakening.

Continuing the teachings from Chapter 2, explaining eight unsatisfactory conditions and describing characteristics of true duhkha through ten points.

Continuing Chapter 2, covering the sections “Three Types of Duhkha”, “Feelings, Afflictions and Duhkha”, and “Six Disadvantages of Cyclic Existence”.

Continuing Chapter 2, describing different realms where beings are reborn, causes for the rebirth and characteristics of the beings in different realms.

Completing Chapter 1 describing four attributes of true paths and starting Chapter 2, covering “Knowing Duḥkha for What It Is”.

Teaching from Chapter 1, describing four attributes of true cessations and four attributes of true paths.

Continuing Chapter 1, explaining four attributes of true duhkha and four attributes of true origins.

How the third and fourth attributes of true duhkha counter the distorted conceptions.

How the fisrt and second attributes of true duhkha counter the distorted conceptions.