Working with Emotions

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

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Contentment and Happiness

What it means to be happy—a talk with young students

Real happiness doesn't come from external things but from developing inner qualities and making the…

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Living with an Open Heart

“Living with an Open Heart”: The vastnes...

Buddhist ideas and techniques to awaken our compassionate motivation and bring our heartfelt aspirations to…

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Healing Anger

Healing prejudice

Looking at news headlines, our world seems to be increasingly divided. How healing our minds…

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Cultivating Compassion

“An Open-Hearted Life”: Living with auth...

An important part of living an authentic life is genuine compassion and it is a…

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Healing Anger

Giving up the blame game

How to stop blaming ourselves and others for our problems, develop a broader view of…

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Love and Self-esteem

No need to fake it: Developing true self-confidence

Our good qualities, the basic purity of our mind and inborn potential, are the basis…

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Working with Emotions

Push and pull of emotional life

An Interview with Venerable Thubten Chodron and Travis Newbill from the Science of Meditation free…

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Love and Self-esteem

Genuine self-confidence

Self-confidence is the opposite of self-centeredness. As women, we should be secure in our commitments…

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Retreatants with Venerable Chodron at the Phendeling Centre teaching.
Living with an Open Heart

Cultivating happiness and contentment

Happiness comes from a mind free from disturbing emotions. not from external things. Cultivating a…

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Retreatants with Venerable Chodron at the Phendeling Centre teaching.
Living with an Open Heart

Examining our expectations of others

With a realistic view of others—friends and family and coworkers—we can avoid disappointment and conflict,…

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Retreatants with Venerable Chodron at the Phendeling Centre teaching.
Living with an Open Heart

Becoming friends with ourselves

Through self-acceptance we can treat ourselves with kindness and compassion, and see that we have…

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