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Relate to others with awareness of their kindness and the wish to benefit them.

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Family and Friends

Developing a realistic perspective on our close relationships so that we can be of benefit to all sentient beings.

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Speaking Wisely and Kindly

How to use our speech to create virtue and cultivate harmonious relationships with others.

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Workplace Wisdom

How to bring our Dharma practice into situations and relationships at work.

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Cultivating Healthy Relationships (Spain 2016)

Teachings on healing and cultivating healthy relationships given at Centro Nagarjuna Valencia in Valencia, Spain.

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Dharma and the Family Workshop (Missouri 2002)

Teachings on the influence that Dharma practice can have on family life given at a workshop at the Mid-America Buddhist Association in Augusta, Missouri.

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Friendship and Community (New York 2007)

Teachings given at the Omega Institute in Rhineback, New York.

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The Four Nonvirtues of Speech (Taiwan 2018)

Short talks recorded at Luminary Temple in Taiwan on how to use our speech to create virtue by avoiding lying, harsh speech, divisive speech, and idle talk.

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Cultivating Healthy Relationships

Kindness in times of disagreement

Recognizing our interdependence makes it easy to practice kindness in daily life.

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Workplace Wisdom

Creating vision as a leader: a Buddhist perspective

How a leader can create an vision for an organization that that helps everyone work…

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Cultivating Healthy Relationships

Survival of the most cooperative

Generating peace, love, and compassion in our own hearts can help us to heal divisions…

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Workplace Wisdom

How a Buddhist deals with burnout

Factors that lead to burnout and how to avoid it in professional work, volunteer work,…

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Workplace Wisdom

Spiritual confidence in the workplace

What it means to integrate spirituality with work including our motivation to work, keeping ethical…

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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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Conflict and compassion: Opening our hearts when our...

When we can listen to others and open our mind to the fact that others…

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Cultivating Healthy Relationships

Being human: Not seeing the world as us and them

Cultivating the mind that sees all sentient beings as equal and how this benefits ourselves…

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False friends

There are four kinds of false friends, who are actually foes in the guise of…

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Cultivating Healthy Relationships

Being a Dharma community

There is value in practicing and meditating with others. When we participate in our Dharma…

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Speaking Wisely and Kindly

The fourth nonvirtue of speech: Idle talk (part 2)

Venerable Thubten Chodron shares a positive memory of something she did in a large gathering…

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Speaking Wisely and Kindly

The fourth nonvirtue of speech: Idle talk (part 1)

The motivation for idle talk is basically to pass time and amuse ourselves. If our…

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