Working with Emotions
How to identify disturbing emotions, their causes and antidotes, and transform them to bring inner peace.
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Building Trust
Advice on how to forgive after a betrayal and cultivate qualities that make us trustworthy.
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Contentment and Happiness
How to find real happiness by developing our inner qualities and cultivating a peaceful mind.
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Cultivating Compassion
Methods for cultivating compassion that wishes all sentient beings to be free from suffering and its causes.
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Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions
How Buddhist techniques can help us to work with fear, anxiety, disappointment, and depression.
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Forgiveness
Releasing anger and learning to let go of the past for our own wellbeing and the benefit of others.
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Healing Anger
Learn antidotes to anger, such as compassion and fortitude, and how to apply them to cool the heat of anger.
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Love and Self-esteem
How to develop unbiased love and a true sense of self-confidence and self-esteem.
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Working with Anger
A variety of Buddhist methods for subduing anger, not by changing what is happening, but by working with our minds to frame situations differently. No matter what our religion, learning to work with anger can benefit us all.
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An Open-Hearted Life
How do we turn “do more, have more, be more” on its head and cultivate compassion as the key to happiness? An Open-Hearted Life offers practical Buddhist and Western psychological approaches to opening our hearts. (U.S. edition)
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Living with an Open Heart
How do we turn “do more, have more, be more” on its head and cultivate compassion as the key to happiness? Living with an Open Heart offers practical Buddhist and Western psychological approaches to opening our hearts. (UK edition)
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Related Series
Buddhism and the 12 Steps (2013)
Short talks on adapting and applying the 12-step program within a Buddhist framework.
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Creating Peace in a Chaotic World with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2021)
A series of four online talks on various methods to develop inner peace given to students at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in 2021.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Living in a Buddhist community
Venerable Thubten Chodron discusses practicing while living in community at Sravasti Abbey.
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Courageous Compassion
One of the teachings that sparked my interest when I encountered Buddhism was compassion. My…
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Competition vs. contentment: Dialogue with Buddhist ...
Finding contentment and purpose by contributing to others.
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Compassion: What it is, what it isn’t
The ways compassion is misunderstood and what it really is.
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Cultivating compassion and letting go of anger
How we can develop compassion even for those who harm.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro More remedies for anger
Antidotes to anger, and different styles of anger that can manifest behaviorally.
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Strategies for managing anger
Teaching on how to manage anger, and the causes and conditions that lead to anger.
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Discovering anger within
What Buddhism says about anger as a mental factor, and how to relate to anger…
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How a Tibetan Buddhist nun works with her anger
Venerable Chodron is interviewed on anger and its antidotes.
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