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 friends with ourselves

Discovering our Buddha potential by investigating the source of lasting happiness and cultivating the heart…

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Healing Anger

Cultivating love and compassion

Questions and answers regarding anger and merit, followed by a talk focused on developing love…

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Healing Anger

The judgmental mind

A discussion about our judgmental tendencies and as well as how to deal with the…

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Healing Anger

Dealing with criticism

How parents can help their children with anger and how to deal with criticism and…

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Healing Anger

The Buddhist view of anger

Anger can be addictive: how to calm the adrenalin rush of anger.

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Healing Anger

To bear the unbearable

Exploring antidotes to our disturbing attitudes and negative emotions.

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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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Healing Anger

Anger poisons our happiness

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

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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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