Obstacles

Unhealthy relationships between disciples and mentors can manifest in many ways, including overdependence on the mentor, not maintaining discriminating awareness or transference and regression as known in psychotherapy.

We need to exert effort to rid ourselves of all obstacles to concentration, such as flightiness and mental dullness, during whatever meditations we may be doing.

Our meditation practice requires us to first analyze and understand the Dharma in order to integrate it into ourselves.

The Nyingma explanations by Mipam and the Sakya explanation by Gorampa concerning the stages for ridding ourselves of the emotional and cognitive obscurations.

There are two major sets of mental obscurations: emotional obscurations and cognitive obscurations.

To overcome information addiction, we need to recognize the stress it causes us and, with determination to be free of it, follow a healthy strategy to better manage our digital life.

Misunderstanding may arise from teachers or translators accidentally saying something incorrect.

Maitreya enumerates 46 faults that cause interference for developing the wisdoms applicable to bodhisattvas as well as aspects of Dharma study and practice.

Learn what needs to be overcome in order to develop each of the three graded levels of motivation in lam-rim.

A detailed look at the methods we use in anuttarayoga tantra to purify ourselves of experiencing the true suffering of uncontrollably recurring death, bardo, and rebirth.