Working with Emotions

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

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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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Cultivating Compassion

Caring for ourselves and others

The antidotes to anger, an affliction which blocks our capacity to cultivate compassion.

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Cultivating Compassion

Benefits of compassion

The benefits of cultivating compassion and how to meditate to develop compassion towards all sentient…

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Cultivating Compassion

A heart of compassion

The meaning of compassion and the importance of distinguishing between compassion and self-centered distress.

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Forgiveness

Challenges to forgiveness

We can generate forgiveness and compassion for those who harm ourselves or others. Forgiveness does…

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Love and Self-esteem

Causes of happiness

The near and far enemies of love and the true causes of happiness that we…

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