Working with Emotions
How to identify disturbing emotions, their causes and antidotes, and transform them to bring inner peace.
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Building Trust
Advice on how to forgive after a betrayal and cultivate qualities that make us trustworthy.
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Contentment and Happiness
How to find real happiness by developing our inner qualities and cultivating a peaceful mind.
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Cultivating Compassion
Methods for cultivating compassion that wishes all sentient beings to be free from suffering and its causes.
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Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions
How Buddhist techniques can help us to work with fear, anxiety, disappointment, and depression.
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Forgiveness
Releasing anger and learning to let go of the past for our own wellbeing and the benefit of others.
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Healing Anger
Learn antidotes to anger, such as compassion and fortitude, and how to apply them to cool the heat of anger.
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Love and Self-esteem
How to develop unbiased love and a true sense of self-confidence and self-esteem.
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Working with Anger
A variety of Buddhist methods for subduing anger, not by changing what is happening, but by working with our minds to frame situations differently. No matter what our religion, learning to work with anger can benefit us all.
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An Open-Hearted Life
How do we turn “do more, have more, be more” on its head and cultivate compassion as the key to happiness? An Open-Hearted Life offers practical Buddhist and Western psychological approaches to opening our hearts. (U.S. edition)
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Living with an Open Heart
How do we turn “do more, have more, be more” on its head and cultivate compassion as the key to happiness? Living with an Open Heart offers practical Buddhist and Western psychological approaches to opening our hearts. (UK edition)
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Related Series
Buddhism and the 12 Steps (2013)
Short talks on adapting and applying the 12-step program within a Buddhist framework.
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Creating Peace in a Chaotic World with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2021)
A series of four online talks on various methods to develop inner peace given to students at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in 2021.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron How a Tibetan Buddhist nun works with her anger
Venerable Chodron is interviewed on anger and its antidotes.
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Twelve ways to apply compassion in society
How to apply compassion to improve areas of common concern in society.
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Bringing compassion into every moment
Practical ways to bring compassion into everyday life.
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Small acts of compassion can have big results
The far-reaching effects of small acts of kindness.
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Meditation on transforming anger into compassion
A guided meditation on working with anger.
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Compassion, uncertainty, and listening to uncomforta...
How to become comfortable with uncertainty and open to uncomfortable truths
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Cultivation of Compassion
How compassion gets us going in the right direction in our life.
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Compassion for a happier mind for Turkey
How caring for others improves our own and others’ lives. A talk given for the…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Disturbing emotions and the mind
Positive and negative emotions, methods of expressing them, and advice for meditation during retreat.
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