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 Wisdom and compassion
Seeing the kindness of sentient beings and understanding that our enlightenment depends on them.
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Disappointment and delight—the eight worldly c...
Confronting the eight worldly concerns will transform our attachments and emotional afflictions into happiness and…
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Cultivating contentment
How contentment cannot be found in external possessions and relationships but stems from developing our…
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama and compassion
Looking to His Holiness the Dalai Lama as an example for our own lives.
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The source of happiness and problems
What is real happiness? We think happiness comes from external situations and objects, but the…
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The kindness of others
The third of three talks given at a retreat on how to cultivate compassion. Further…
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Developing compassion
The second of three talks given at a retreat on how to cultivate compassion. Learning…
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Developing equanimity
The first of three talks given at a retreat on how to cultivate compassion. The…
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Buddhism and consumerism
A talk on how consumerism affects society and its impact on Buddhism in America.
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Curing our self-centeredness
Compassion can serve as a powerful antidote to our self-preoccupation and free us from our…
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Genuine aspiration and resistance
Kindness for oneself relieves the internal struggle to commit to the Dharma.
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