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 Chonyi Developing compassion
Definition of compassion and the conditions we already have in place to cultivate it.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Transforming anger into compassion
Anger isn't subdued by rearranging the world and the beings in it, but through internal…
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The Buddhist approach to happiness
Living life with the view that my happiness is most important actually leads to unhappiness.…
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Cultivating love and kindness
A talk on working with disturbing emotions based on the book "An Open-Hearted Life."
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Optimism and renunciation
Response to a query from a SAFE student on how to have an optimistic mind…
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The power of optimism
Rejoicing in the positive mental states and good hearts of Abbey friends.
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Living an open-hearted life
A daylong seminar offering perspectives on compassion from Buddhism and psychology from Venerable Thubten Chodron…
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Wisdom, love, and hatred
Verses from Buddhist scriptures on how to overcome the obstacles to cultivating love.
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Obstacles and antidotes
Further discussion of the obstacles to cultivating love and how to work with them.
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Cultivating love
On the difference between love and attachment, and the obstacles to cultivating love.
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Helping angry people
We cannot control other people; we can only accept where they are at right now.
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Inner peace, world peace
How freeing the mind from destructive emotions can change the world.
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