Meat Puppets
We don’t have to be so bound by these meat puppets that we drag around.
Craving
Craving in Buddhism is the desire not to be separated from pleasure and the desire to be separated from pain. Traditionally, there are three types: craving for sensuality, for continued existence, and for nonexistence. Craving leads to attachment, clinging, or grasping, which is the root cause of suffering in Buddhism that the Buddha realized when he awakened.
The Difference Between Attachment and Love
In her new book, The Heroic Heart: Awakening Unbound Compassion, Buddhist nun Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo explains a difficult distinction.
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
A Most Difficult Distinction
A brief teaching from a Buddhist nun
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Leaving the Palace
Buddhism, womanhood, and the problem of the self
Unclutter Your Life by Erasing Your Future
This unsettling practice can usher in a world of relief.
Showing Up Without Burning Out
How the Buddha’s teachings on attachment can help us navigate the trials of the officer charged with George Floyd’s murder.
Sweets and Suffering
A Won Buddhist teacher on how we consume suffering and how suffering consumes us
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
Slip Free of Craving
A brief teaching from a psychologist
Strange Situation
Two mothers discuss Buddhist practice and attachment.
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