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 Chodron 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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Changing perspective to undermine anger
Using thought transformation practices to see others and difficult situations more realistically decreases anger because…
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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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The link between anger and arrogance
How developing humility can be an antidote to anger and arrogance.
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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”: The vastnes...
Buddhist ideas and techniques to awaken our compassionate motivation and bring our heartfelt aspirations to…
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Healing prejudice
Looking at news headlines, our world seems to be increasingly divided. How healing our minds…
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“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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Giving up the blame game
How to stop blaming ourselves and others for our problems, develop a broader view of…
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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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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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