Working with Emotions

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

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A monk standing on rock beside a tree
Healing Anger

To bear the unbearable

Exploring antidotes to our disturbing attitudes and negative emotions.

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Venerable Jampa under a tree, reading.
Contentment and Happiness

Making life meaningful

What is the true meaning of our precious human rebirth? Remembering karma and creating the…

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Sangha and lay practitioners listening carefully as Venerable Chodron teaches.
Contentment and Happiness

Finding true happiness

Looking for happiness in all the wrong places? True happiness and contentment are not created…

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A heart with dirt on it
Healing Anger

Anger poisons our happiness

Transforming anger by changing the behavior patterns of attachment, hostility, and loneliness.

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Closeup of the face of a Buddha statue.
Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions

Dealing with disappointment

Happiness begins with eliminating unrealistic expectations of ourselves and others.

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Contentment and Happiness

How to achieve success, happiness and love

Re-defining success, happiness and love on our own terms, and understanding how the Buddhist perspective…

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Venerable Chodron with eyes closed, holding a microphone.
Contentment and Happiness

Attaining and balancing wealth

Examining what money symbolizes in our life, and how overcoming self-centeredness can bring about inner…

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An Abbey guest, picking apples from a tree.
Contentment and Happiness

Living with optimism

Smiling is no unfailing remedy against everything—but it can help!

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Venerable Chodron with Abbey guests and the cat, Manjushri.
Working with Emotions

The creator of happiness and suffering

Exploring the concept that the mind is the true source of happiness and suffering. Thus,…

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Venerable Chodron with the cat, Manjushri, eating breakfast together.
Working with Emotions

Friendliness

Too judgmental? Take people close to you for granted? Feeling closed off? These practices increase…

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Venerable Chodron meditating with Abbey guests.
Working with Emotions

Discontent and contentment

Our society conditions us to believe that what we do, have or are is never…

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Taming the Mind book cover.
Healing Anger

Defusing our hot buttons

Practical advice on how to identify our “buttons”—the expectations and preconceptions that set our anger…

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