anxiety

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

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Family and Friends

How to practice Dharma: a talk for youth and parents

Relating Buddhist teaching and practice to issues faced by teens and parents—becoming the person you…

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Books

“Awaken Every Day”: Bringing the Dharma ...

How short daily reflections can help cultivate a positive motivation and bring spiritual practice into…

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Venerable holding a microphone and smiling while teaching at Gardenia Center.
Books

Making life meaningful by connecting with others

How doing even small positive things can make a difference in the lives of others…

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Venerable smiling while teaching in front of a Buddha statue.
Love and Self-esteem

Building confidence to live your life to the fullest

What it means to have confidence, and how to develop stable self-confidence through self-acceptance and…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Compassionate understanding of emotions

How a compassionate understanding of how emotions play out in our minds gives us a…

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Statue of Kuan Yin.
Bodhisattva Path

Taking and giving

How to practice tonglen, the taking-and-giving meditation.

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Contentment and Happiness

The eight pillars of joy

Venerable Thubten Nyima shares the wisdom of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond…

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Responding to Prejudice

Overcoming fear and preconceptions

A motivation to work with the fear and misleading preconceptions that arise in the face…

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Responding to Prejudice

We all can overcome our wrong views

A story of a man who used to be a white supremacist and transformed his…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Why we need compassion

In the face of human hardship, compassion is the only response that makes sense. It…

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