anger
Teachings on the mental affliction of anger, including its causes, disadvantages, and antidotes.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Determining to practice patience
The objects of anger and ways to work with our angry mind. Verses 8-15 of…
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Working with anger, developing fortitude
Defining anger and its disadvantages. Commentary on Verses 1-7 of Shantideva's "Engaging in the Bodhisattva's…
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Cultivating compassion
How Venerable Thubten Chodron came to choose the Buddhist path, and the reasons for cultivating…
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Verse 90: The auspicious omen of love
How love for ourselves and others creates harmony wherever we are.
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Verse 85: Precious and rare medicine
Why we should appreciate true and beneficial words that point out our faults instead of…
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Verse 79: Freeing the mind from attachment
On how attachment to the most trivial things binds our mind to cyclic existence.
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Friends, enemies and strangers
A guided meditation on cultivating equanimity as a way of getting off the emotional roller-coaster…
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The person and the aggregates
If the person cannot be found in the aggregates, does it exist separate from the…
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The taking-and-giving meditation
Commentary on verses from Nagarjuna's Precious Garland of Advice for a King that are the…
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Equanimity: Changing our conceptions of others
Developing equanimity means changing our view of others and how we categorize them as friend,…
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Developing equanimity
Developing equal care and concern for others sets the foundation for cultivating bodhicitta.
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How to practice between sessions
Seeing our afflictions as mere mind moments that have a similar "flavor" to which we…
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