Working with Emotions

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

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

Three types of emotion and their influence

The threat system, the drive system and the safeness system from the psychological and Buddhist…

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Healing Anger

Getting a handle on anger

If we can be calm with an attitude of compassion in conflicts, then there's a…

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Living with an Open Heart

Connecting with others with an open heart

By opening our heart we can connect to others in a meaningful and healthy way…

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Venerable Chodron signs a book for a Dharma student at Tibet House Frankfurt.
Living with an Open Heart

Comparing the Buddhist and scientific views of emotions

A look at two viewpoints on the source of disturbing emotions, how they cause problems,…

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Venerable Chodron signs a book for a Dharma student at Tibet House Frankfurt.
Living with an Open Heart

How our emotions impact our mind

Understanding how emotions impact the mind helps us work with disturbing emotions and positive emotions.…

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Venerable Chodron signs a book for a Dharma student at Tibet House Frankfurt.
Living with an Open Heart

Misconceptions about compassion

While everyone admires compassion, there is a lot of confusion about it. In addition to…

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Venerable Chodron signs a book for a Dharma student at Tibet House Frankfurt.
Living with an Open Heart

Overcoming the obstacles to developing compassion

Recognizing the four qualities of self-centeredness that impede developing compasssion and looking at the ways…

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Venerable Chodron signs a book for a Dharma student at Tibet House Frankfurt.
Living with an Open Heart

Compassion and interdependence

When we see that we are dependent on others we see the importance of caring…

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Venerable Chodron signs a book for a Dharma student at Tibet House Frankfurt.
Working with Emotions

A warm heart in a complex world

In terms of having a kind heart it doesn't matter if the world is more…

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Venerable Chodron signs a book for a Dharma student at Tibet House Frankfurt.
Working with Emotions

Cultivating emotional balance

Learning to handle our emotions instead of being under their control strengthens and makes us…

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Contentment and Happiness

Caught up in consumerism

Acquiring things and going into debt does not fill up the empty hole of dissatisfaction.…

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Cultivating Compassion

Transforming the mind with compassion

How to cultivate compassion and transform the mind that insists on taking care of "ME."

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