Working with Emotions

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

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Living with an Open Heart

“Living with an Open Heart” book launch

A lively discussion about the book, Living with an Open Heart: How to Cultivate Compassion…

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Living with an Open Heart

Advice on living with an open heart

An exploration of the Buddha's teachings in helping us develop compassion in our lives and…

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Contentment and Happiness

The formula for happiness

In searching for happiness we need to cultivate our ability to love people more openly,…

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Contentment and Happiness

The love of money

How attachment to wealth breeds anxiety and dissatisfaction, and how contentment with what we have…

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Contentment and Happiness

Love people, not pleasure

In the search for happiness, attachment to fame and reputation is a major cause of…

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Cultivating Compassion

Moving toward compassion

The obstacles that we experience when cultivating compassion and how to overcome them.

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Living with an Open Heart

Healing with love and compassion

Counteracting the self-centered, self-grasping mind and confronting the emotional problems of this life through love…

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Forgiveness

Learning to forgive

The meaning of forgiveness, letting go of anger, working with our expectations, letting go of…

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Forgiveness

The power of forgiveness

Identifying the obstacles to forgiveness and learning to work with our anger and pain, accepting…

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Working with Emotions

Liberation from the eight dangers: Verses 4-8

Eight mental and emotional afflictions and the antidotes to subdue them. The last four verses…

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Working with Emotions

Liberation from the eight dangers: Verses 1-3

Eight mental and emotional afflictions and the antidotes to subdue them. The first three verses…

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