The Red Pill of Renunciation: Embracing Reality as It Is #17 [rebroadcast]

How to Train a Happy Mind

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Episode 17. The Red Pill of Renunciation: Embracing Reality As It Is
Four years ago, we created this podcast to share the rich tradition of Tibetan Buddhist analytical meditation in a form that requires no belief beyond what science currently accepts. The first 40 episodes of the podcast gradually go through all of these topics, in order, beginning with appreciating the gift of our life and our place in the universe, and gradually moving up to cultivating boundless compassion for all beings and understanding the ultimate nature of our inner and outer realities. Over the next year, interspersed with new interviews, we are re-releasing updated versions of these topics.

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1. The Red Pill of Renunciation: Embracing Reality as It Is #17 [rebroadcast] (00:00:00)

2. Is renunciation for you? (00:05:01)

3. What is renunciation? (00:07:25)

4. Renunciation step 1: understanding suffering and wishing to be free of it (00:10:18)

5. Renunciation step 2: letting go of our problems and their causes (00:13:05)

6. Lying to yourself is the alternative to renunciation (00:15:33)

7. Where do you turn once you renounce the true, inner, source of problems? (00:20:44)

8. What comes next? (00:25:24)