Working with Emotions

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

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Working with Anger

Guided meditation on examining anger

Meditation on examining the experience of anger and how it affects us.

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Working with Emotions

Buddhist wisdom for managing our emotions

How disturbing emotions keep us bound in samsara and two methods for managing anger.

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Working with Anger

Anger, imputations and assumptions

We impute meaning on things and expect others to agree without clarifying.

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Working with Anger

Anger and the self-centered mind

How to oppose the self-centered mind and more techniques for dealing with anger.

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Working with Anger

Contemplating the faults of anger

Two faults of anger to contemplate and why Buddhahood depends on even cockroaches.

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Working with Anger

Anger and attachment are equally unhelpful

How anger and attachment cause us to exaggerate and project qualities onto people and things.

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Dharma in Action

Compassion in our country

How harming others is actually harming ourselves and the importance of compassion.

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Love and Self-esteem

A zillion reasons to love sentient beings

Exploring the advantages of loving-kindness and how to develop this beneficial quality.

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Love and Self-esteem

Unlocking your potential

How to overcome obstacles and create causes to realize our full human potential.

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Meditation

Living in a Buddhist community

Venerable Thubten Chodron discusses practicing while living in community at Sravasti Abbey.

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Cultivating Compassion

Courageous Compassion

One of the teachings that sparked my interest when I encountered Buddhism was compassion. My…

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