Cultivating Healthy Relationships

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

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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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Two women give each other a high five while offering service at Sravasti Abbey.
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Cultivating equanimity

Cultivating healthy relationships based on loving-kindness and equanimity instead of attachment.

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Two women give each other a high five while offering service at Sravasti Abbey.
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Qualities of a friend

Characteristics of true friends and false friends, using this not only to recognize our friends…

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Two women give each other a high five while offering service at Sravasti Abbey.
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Attachment and its effects

Teachings on the dangers of attachment and difference between attachment vs love.

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Two women give each other a high five while offering service at Sravasti Abbey.
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Relating to others in the community

Summary of how our mind works and importance of cultivating good qualities to interact with…

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Closeup of Venerable Chodron teaching.
Speaking Wisely and Kindly

Hurtful words, healing words

Being mindful of our speech so as to prevent ourselves from harming others.

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Couple holding hands.
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Romance and family life

Buddhist advice for parents and for youth on romantic love and relationships.

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Young girl smiling in classroom.
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Questions from children

Why do you shave your head? and many other questions from the children at the…

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