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 Chodron Learning to forgive
The meaning of forgiveness, letting go of anger, working with our expectations, letting go of…
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The power of forgiveness
Identifying the obstacles to forgiveness and learning to work with our anger and pain, accepting…
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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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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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Compassion as an antidote to depression
How reaching out to others can improve our own state of mind.
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Caring for ourselves and others
The antidotes to anger, an affliction which blocks our capacity to cultivate compassion.
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Benefits of compassion
The benefits of cultivating compassion and how to meditate to develop compassion towards all sentient…
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A heart of compassion
The meaning of compassion and the importance of distinguishing between compassion and self-centered distress.
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Challenges to forgiveness
We can generate forgiveness and compassion for those who harm ourselves or others. Forgiveness does…
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Causes of happiness
The near and far enemies of love and the true causes of happiness that we…
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The kindness of sentient beings
How to reflect on the kindness of all sentient beings, including our enemies, at both…
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Defining love and happiness
Examining how we define "love" and "happiness," why we like friends, have apathy for strangers,…
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