Contentment and Happiness

How to find real happiness by developing our inner qualities and cultivating a peaceful mind.

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Guest at the Abbey, turning prayer wheels.
Contentment and Happiness

Making decisions for long term benefit

How to find true long term happiness by acting ethically and benefiting others.

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Guest at the Abbey, turning prayer wheels.
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Purifying our wrong actions

Explanation of generating regret for our past actions and making a determination not to repeat…

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Guest at the Abbey, turning prayer wheels.
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Craving for pleasures

How we cling to sense pleasures, our own ways of doing things, and examining if…

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Guest at the Abbey, turning prayer wheels.
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Ethical conduct and motivation

The meaning of happiness, how anger and attachment cause suffering, and the benefits of a…

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Venerable Jampa under a tree, reading.
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Making life meaningful

What is the true meaning of our precious human rebirth? Remembering karma and creating the…

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Sangha and lay practitioners listening carefully as Venerable Chodron teaches.
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Finding true happiness

Looking for happiness in all the wrong places? True happiness and contentment are not created…

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How to achieve success, happiness and love

Re-defining success, happiness and love on our own terms, and understanding how the Buddhist perspective…

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Venerable Chodron with eyes closed, holding a microphone.
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Attaining and balancing wealth

Examining what money symbolizes in our life, and how overcoming self-centeredness can bring about inner…

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An Abbey guest, picking apples from a tree.
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Living with optimism

Smiling is no unfailing remedy against everything—but it can help!

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Venerable Chodron circumambulating Geshe Jampa Wangdu's stupa at Tushita.
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Inner peace

Overcoming the discontented mind opens the way to greater compassion. How to face our fears…

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Venerable Chodron smiling and holding flowers at Tai Pei Buddhist Centre in Singapore.
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Working with unfulfilled expectations

How we set ourselves up for disappointment through our expectations, and how we can find…

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The outside front of The Buddhist Library.
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Consumerism and happiness

Questioning how society defines happiness based on what we possess, and examining how consumerism influences…

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