Working with Emotions
How to identify disturbing emotions, their causes and antidotes, and transform them to bring inner peace.
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How can we deal with anger?
Venerable Chodron explains how anger, a negative emotion, creates problems in our lives, and how…
View PostSimplifying our lives
Letting go of life's complications by giving up the dissatisfied mind and closing down the…
View PostWisdom and compassion
Seeing the kindness of sentient beings and understanding that our enlightenment depends on them.
View PostDisappointment and delight—the eight worldly c...
Confronting the eight worldly concerns will transform our attachments and emotional afflictions into happiness and…
View PostCultivating contentment
How contentment cannot be found in external possessions and relationships but stems from developing our…
View PostHis Holiness the Dalai Lama and compassion
Looking to His Holiness the Dalai Lama as an example for our own lives.
View PostThe source of happiness and problems
What is real happiness? We think happiness comes from external situations and objects, but the…
View PostThe kindness of others
The third of three talks given at a retreat on how to cultivate compassion. Further…
View PostDeveloping compassion
The second of three talks given at a retreat on how to cultivate compassion. Learning…
View PostDeveloping equanimity
The first of three talks given at a retreat on how to cultivate compassion. The…
View PostBuddhism and consumerism
A talk on how consumerism affects society and its impact on Buddhism in America.
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