Working with Emotions
How to identify disturbing emotions, their causes and antidotes, and transform them to bring inner peace.
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Venerable Thubten Chonyi “An Open-Hearted Life”: Preface by Profe...
A look at the western psychological perspective on compassion and how it relates to the…
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Meditating on taking and giving
Imagining taking on all the suffering of others in order to destroy our own self-centred…
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Venerable Thubten Samten Equanimity in daily life
How to fit the practice of equanimity into our daily lives, and outlining the taking-and-giving…
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Obstacles to compassion
Exploring the meditation on the kindness of others, and various obstacles to compassion, including the…
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Venerable Thubten Semkye Meditating on equanimity
A meditation on equanimity, in which we imagine those whom we currently find challenging in…
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Composed compassion
How to take responsibility for cultivating compassion in our own lives.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Dealing with anger using mind training
When we're angry our view of the situation is an exaggeration. Looking at the situation…
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Recognizing there are no benefits to anger. Counteracting angry states of mind by viewing others…
View Post The downside of anger
Real freedom is an inner-state—freedom from afflicted mental states. When we are free from anger…
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Using thought transformation practices to see others and difficult situations more realistically decreases anger because…
View Post Disarming the mind
The more we can develop compassion and fortitude, the more resistant we are to anger.
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“An Open-Hearted Life”: Foreword by the ...
In the foreword to the book His Holiness the Dalai Lama explains why compassion is…
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