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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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Karma and Your Life

Creating our experience

How better understanding the law of karma and its effects helps us create happiness in…

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Karma and Your Life

Exploring karma

The meaning of karma and an examination of the many ways of describing and considering…

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Healing after a Suicide

Loss of a loved one to suicide

Healing from a loved one's suicide by transforming the traumatic experience into a cause for…

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Wisdom

Dependent arising and our true nature

Dependent arising and how it acts as a reason to establish the emptiness of inherent…

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Healing Anger

To bear the unbearable

Exploring antidotes to our disturbing attitudes and negative emotions.

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Vajrasattva

Path of purification: Daily practice

Investigating the benefits of daily spiritual practice, taking refuge and precepts, as well as an…

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Vajrasattva

Path of purification: Vajrasattva practice

Introduction to the Vajrasattva practice including how to visualize and the meaning of the mantra,…

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Buddhist Worldview

Inquiry and faith

We don’t get enlightened simply by having faith but through transforming our mind.

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