When disturbing emotions arise we have a choice. The Buddhist teachings offer practical methods to change counterproductive, habitual emotional responses.
“An Open-Hearted Life”: Being responsible for our emotions
Author Archive | Venerable Sangye Khadro
Working with disturbing emotions
Having compassion for ourselves by not following the disturbing emotions.
The pain of harsh words
Venerable Sangye Khadro shares how painful it is to receive and give harsh words, and gives us tools to stop this bad habit.
Facsimiles of direct perceivers
Venerable Sangye Khadro teaches on facsimiles of direct perceivers and inferential cognizers.
Reward and respect
A warning against procuring reward and respect by means of flattery, hinting, or coercion.
Seven kinds of awareness
Venerable Sangye Khadro covering the division of prime and non-prime cognizers, and direct perceivers.
Not diminishing ourselves
Being careful, carefully examining our motivation before mentioning the faults of others.
The mirror of the Dharma
Venerable Sangye Khadro talks about being authentic, which is to look at our errors, and do something about them.
The emptiness of the giver, the giving, and the receiver
Venerable Sangye Khadro continues with Verse 30 of the “37 Practices of Bodhisattvas,” discussing the perfection of wisdom.
What is the mind?
Venerable Sangye Khadro covers the definition of awareness and the divisions of awareness into sense vs. mental consciousnesses and perceptions vs. conception.