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How to be free from attachment?

Adhering to one's principles is not the same as attachment. Adhering to our principles amidst temptations and difficulties is a positive force for improvement. Attachment is self-centered concern about fame and gain, which keeps us bogged in delusion.

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Eliminating suffering by not regarding suffering as suffering

Phenomena arising from causes and conditions are impermanent and empty.  Insight into impermanence and emptiness enables one to leave suffering behind and gain genuine happiness. 

04 Practices of Guanyin Bodhisattva: the Dharani of the White-robed Bodhisattva

Reciting the Dharani of the White-robed Bodhisattva can help reduce our karmic obstacles. But the most important is that we come to study and learn the Dharma ourselves.  

Cultivate Our True Self {Stage 1: Knowing Ourselves}

Know yourself---both strengths and shortcomings. We must mend our ways and be humble about our strengths while striving to seek improvement.