anger

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

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Venerable Chodron and Venerable Samten sitting with a group of inmates in the Medan prison chapel.
By Prison Volunteers

Connecting with incarcerated women in Indonesia

Reflections on a visit together with Venerable Thubten Chodron to a women's prison in Indonesia.

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Heart made of rocks.
Healing Anger

Transforming anger into compassion

Anger isn't subdued by rearranging the world and the beings in it, but through internal…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Meditation and review on equanimity

Two meditations to develop equanimity, an attitude of equal care and concern for all sentient…

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Cover of book 'An open-hearted life'.
Cultivating Compassion

Cultivating love and kindness

A talk on working with disturbing emotions based on the book "An Open-Hearted Life."

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Appreciating our opportunities

A motivation on appreciating all the causes and conditions for our precious human rebirth, and…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

The far-reaching practice of fortitude

The three types of fortitude that help to transform how we view hardships and overcome…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 96: Do not do unto others

How we often go against the golden rule by inflicting the harm we have received…

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Guided Meditations

What is karma?

A meditation for the Daily Dharma Gathering on the four general characteristics of karma.

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Close-up of Mudita the cat looking into the camera.
Love and Self-esteem

Wisdom, love, and hatred

Verses from Buddhist scriptures on how to overcome the obstacles to cultivating love.

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Close-up of Mudita the cat looking into the camera.
Love and Self-esteem

Cultivating love

On the difference between love and attachment, and the obstacles to cultivating love.

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Working with Emotions

Helping angry people

We cannot control other people; we can only accept where they are at right now.

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