Working with Emotions

How to identify disturbing emotions, their causes and antidotes, and transform them to bring inner peace.

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An Open-Hearted Life

“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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Cultivating Compassion

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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Cultivating Compassion

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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Cultivating Compassion

Obstacles to compassion

Exploring the meditation on the kindness of others, and various obstacles to compassion, including the…

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Cultivating Compassion

Meditating on equanimity

A meditation on equanimity, in which we imagine those whom we currently find challenging in…

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Cultivating Compassion

Composed compassion

How to take responsibility for cultivating compassion in our own lives.

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Healing Anger

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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Healing Anger

Counteracting anger with compassion

Recognizing there are no benefits to anger. Counteracting angry states of mind by viewing others…

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Healing Anger

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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Healing Anger

Changing perspective to undermine anger

Using thought transformation practices to see others and difficult situations more realistically decreases anger because…

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Healing Anger

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

“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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