Working with Emotions
How to identify disturbing emotions, their causes and antidotes, and transform them to bring inner peace.
Subcategories
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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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 (Singapore 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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Working with Emotions with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2022)
A short course on how to work with afflictions such as anger, attachment, fear, jealousy, and depression.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Inappropriate attention, attachment, and anger
The relationship between attachment and anger.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Loving-Kindness: Seeing what we often miss
Cultivating kindness in ourselves and seeing it in others.
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The source of happiness with Q&A session
How our mind is the source of happiness, not external sources.
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The enemy of the self-centered mind
Insights into the self-centered mind and working with it.
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Facing difficulties with joy and equanimity
How to approach problems without being overwhelmed by emotions.
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