Working with Emotions

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

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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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Venerable Chodron circumambulating Geshe Jampa Wangdu's stupa at Tushita.
Contentment and Happiness

Inner peace

Overcoming the discontented mind opens the way to greater compassion. How to face our fears…

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Venerable Thubten Chodron teaching in Singapore
Love and Self-esteem

How to love the people you dislike

Transforming the judgmental mind by appreciating the kindness of others.

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Venerable Chodron smiling and holding flowers at Tai Pei Buddhist Centre in Singapore.
Contentment and Happiness

Working with unfulfilled expectations

How we set ourselves up for disappointment through our expectations, and how we can find…

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Anger dial on a console.
Healing Anger

Anger

Explaining how anger arises and is deceptive, the difference between anger and the behavior, having…

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Venerable Thubten Chodron standing with a group of students from Nanyang Technological University Buddhist Society in Singapore.
Love and Self-esteem

The love that empowers your life

An attitude of loving-kindness enriches our daily life in all kinds of circumstances, helps us…

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Venerable Chodron giving a Dharma talk.
Love and Self-esteem

Loving oneself and others

How Dharma practice can help us to become friends with ourselves, and lead ethical lives…

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Venerable Chodron, smiling.
Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions

Living without fear

Identifying and managing fear and anxiety can liberate us to generate greater compassion towards others.

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Photo of woman lying in bed, looking sad.
Fear, Anxiety, and Other Emotions

Dealing with depression

How putting our life into perspective through spiritual practice can help with depression.

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