Working with Emotions

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

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Healing Anger

Working with jealousy

Verses from Shantideva's "Engaging in a Bodhisattva's Deeds" on how to counteract jealousy by rejoicing.

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Logo for The Yoga Hour.
Cultivating Compassion

The way of compassion

A conversational talk on compassion for The Yoga Hour with Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian.

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Cover of book 'An open-hearted life'.
Cultivating Compassion

The happiness of an open-hearted life

By opening our heart to others our life becomes more meaningful and harmonious. A look…

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Karuna the cat sits on a meditation cushion.
Cultivating Compassion

Our capacity for kindness

Cultivating compassion for specific groups of people and how this inner work transforms our everyday…

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Karuna the cat sits on a meditation cushion.
Cultivating Compassion

Becoming our own best friend

How to cultivate a healthy long-term friendship with ourselves. Learning to recognize the self-centered thought…

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Karuna the cat sits on a meditation cushion.
Cultivating Compassion

Developing compassion

Definition of compassion and the conditions we already have in place to cultivate it.

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Heart made of rocks.
Healing Anger

Transforming anger into compassion

Anger isn't subdued by rearranging the world and the beings in it, but through internal…

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Contentment and Happiness

The Buddhist approach to happiness

Living life with the view that my happiness is most important actually leads to unhappiness.…

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Cover of book 'An open-hearted life'.
Cultivating Compassion

Cultivating love and kindness

A talk on working with disturbing emotions based on the book "An Open-Hearted Life."

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Contentment and Happiness

Optimism and renunciation

Response to a query from a SAFE student on how to have an optimistic mind…

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Contentment and Happiness

The power of optimism

Rejoicing in the positive mental states and good hearts of Abbey friends.

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Cultivating Compassion

Living an open-hearted life

A daylong seminar offering perspectives on compassion from Buddhism and psychology from Venerable Thubten Chodron…

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