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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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 (Singapore 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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Working with Emotions with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2022)
A short course on how to work with afflictions such as anger, attachment, fear, jealousy, and depression.
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Sravasti Abbey Monastics Small city, big heart
Report on an international seminar and symposium on compassion and peace education in Brazil.
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama Education in compassion and peace
I am glad to learn that the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA) in Brazil is…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Venerable Sangye Khadro Meditation on how anger distorts our perception of o...
Meditation on how anger affects our view of others.
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Venerable Thubten Pema Guided meditation on examining anger
Meditation on examining the experience of anger and how it affects us.
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Buddhist wisdom for managing our emotions
How disturbing emotions keep us bound in samsara and two methods for managing anger.
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Anger, imputations and assumptions
We impute meaning on things and expect others to agree without clarifying.
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Anger and the self-centered mind
How to oppose the self-centered mind and more techniques for dealing with anger.
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Contemplating the faults of anger
Two faults of anger to contemplate and why Buddhahood depends on even cockroaches.
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Anger and attachment are equally unhelpful
How anger and attachment cause us to exaggerate and project qualities onto people and things.
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Compassion in our country
How harming others is actually harming ourselves and the importance of compassion.
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