Cultivating Healthy Relationships

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

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Family and Friends

Raising a moral child

How to encourage morality in children and adults, and how to offer both praise and…

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Julia holding a big sunflower she brought to offer the Abbey.
Family and Friends

Virtue board

Teaching virtuous qualities to children in a way that they can understand and enjoy.

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A group of young coworkers sitting around a table, working.
Workplace Wisdom

Bringing harmony to the workplace

How to integrate the Dharma into our work lives by setting a good motivation, being…

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hadakshari Lokeshvara on gold cloth.
Speaking Wisely and Kindly

Disadvantages of criticizing bodhisattvas

Cultivating compassion by differentiating between the person and his or her actions.

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A man working in office facing the window
Workplace Wisdom

Work

Applying the Dharma in the workplace, Ken Mondal offers us his personal experience.

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Child holding an apple with an equal sign carved into it.
Family and Friends

Teaching children by example

Actions speak louder than words. Our children will learn loving-kindness, forgiveness, and patience only though…

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Venerable Chodron holding a baby.
Family and Friends

Baby blessing ceremony

A ceremony to welcome babies and children to their Dharma friends and family.

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Woman with her hand over her mouth.
Speaking Wisely and Kindly

Speaking of the faults of others

Belief in the faults of others and ourselves lead to missed opportunities for love.

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A man sitting outside, meditating.
Speaking Wisely and Kindly

Antidotes for the complaining mind

Applying antidotes to our habit of complaining increases tolerance and helps others.

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Family and Friends

Planned parenting

Becoming a parent can be of incredible benefit by transmitting from generation to generation the…

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Cultivating Healthy Relationships

Practicing bodhicitta

Making our practice of bodhicitta personal by relating it to daily life.

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Young woman smiling, helping a young man on the computer.
Workplace Wisdom

Work retreat

Using the workplace as a springboard to noticing our mental state, being aware of any…

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