anger

Teachings on the mental affliction of anger, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.

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Working with Emotions

Making friends with ourselves

Discovering our Buddha potential by investigating the source of lasting happiness and cultivating the heart…

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Bodhisattva Path

Three ways to see bodhicitta in terms of dependent a...

How to use the understanding of dependence on causes and conditions, parts and mental labeling…

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On Overcoming Anger

Making the teachings personal

An incarcerated person reflects on refuge and the insights he has developed through practice.

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108 Verses on Compassion

How things exist

How understanding things exist dependently provides us freedom to act without afflictions and cultivate compassion.

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108 Verses on Compassion

108 Verses: Verse 9

Generating compassion by seeing things as not inherently existing and changing how we act with…

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Healing Anger

Cultivating love and compassion

Questions and answers regarding anger and merit, followed by a talk focused on developing love…

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Healing Anger

The judgmental mind

A discussion about our judgmental tendencies and as well as how to deal with the…

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Healing Anger

Dealing with criticism

How parents can help their children with anger and how to deal with criticism and…

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Healing Anger

The Buddhist view of anger

Anger can be addictive: how to calm the adrenalin rush of anger.

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On Overcoming Anger

Growing pains

A story about an unhappy childhood, a lot of hate and anger, and, in the…

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A group of women waiting for a group therapy session to begin.
On Love, Compassion, and Bodhicitta

Scars and catharsis

An incarcerated person is asked to confront the results of his actions.

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