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 Emotions

Making our minds receptive to the Dharma

Prayer in Buddhism is a collaborative effort. What we are doing when asking the Buddhas…

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Working with Emotions

The purpose of a spiritual mentor

How we may adapt a 12-step recovery program with Buddhist views on self-reliance for our…

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Couple in an argument.
Healing Anger

Managing anger in a relationship

Anger plays a key part in relationships. Its various manifestations and antidotes are explored in…

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Building Trust

How do we make ourselves trustworthy?

A look at ways of cultivating qualities that make us more trustworthy.

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Building Trust

On marital separation

How to work with the mind when going through separation in relationships.

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Building Trust

Don’t trust me to fly a plane!

We can create unreasonable expectations of others, and trust them more than they can bear.…

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Building Trust

Forgiving after a betrayal

When trust has been broken, the best antidote is forgiveness. We don't forget, but we…

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The four opponent actions for healing broken trust

Practical steps to restoring a trusting relationship. The four opponent powers specifically in healing trust…

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Building Trust

What mental factors protect trust?

Several mental factors, like mindfulness and consideration for others, can help us to remain trustworthy…

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Building Trust

Healing broken trust

In trying to repair a relationship where trust has been broken, it's important to be…

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Building Trust

Criteria of trust

Examining the criteria we use for trusting others. We should base trust on how people…

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