anger

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

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Healing Anger

Overcoming jealousy

How jealousy causes emotional pain and problems in relationships. Applying antidotes to overcome jealousy and…

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Healing Anger

Working with anger in daily life

Recognizing the harmfulness of anger. Training the mind to see situations in a different way…

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Wheel of Sharp Weapons

“Good Karma”: The ethical dimension of o...

When we understand karma we understand the importance of setting our motivation and making thoughtful…

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Cultivating Compassion

The power of compassion in a chaotic world

By cultivating broad-minded compassion we can react in a compassionate way to other living beings…

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Anger and disillusionment

Covering the sections in Chapter 3 on anger, disillusionment, and the emotions and survival.

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Dharma Poetry

Return to reality: Love and hate

Seemingly contradictory feelings can lead to the same prison, a prison of ignorance.

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Mind and emotions

Beginning Chapter 3: Mind and Emotions, exploring the relationship between unhappiness and non-virtue.

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On Working with Afflictions

The fixer

There is little we can do to correct injustice in the world if our minds…

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An Open-Hearted Life

The power of optimism and types of emotion

How an optimistic attitude is important in maintaining compassion. A look at different ways to…

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New to Buddhism

The meaning of enlightenment

A small part of enlightenment can be just the intention to let go of our…

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New to Buddhism

Anger as exaggeration

When we look closely at our anger, we see how it's based on exaggeration and…

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Dharma Poetry

Poems of Human and Spirit

When we spend our time and energy moving between extremes, we are unable to step…

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