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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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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Working with Emotions

Disconnect to connect

How we can disconnect from attachment and connect to positive qualities.

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Cultivating Compassion

The power of compassion, part 4

Developing bodhicitta through equalizing and exchanging self and others.

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Cultivating Compassion

The power of compassion, part 3

Developing bodhicitta through equalizing and exchanging self and others.

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Healing Anger

Working with anger, part 1

An explanation of the Buddhist view of anger and how to work with it.

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Working with Emotions

Compassion for oneself, compassion for others

How we can overcome self-hatred and self-criticism and learn to be more kind and friendly…

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