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 Building your inner confidence
How to build confidence by accepting who we are, becoming our own friend, and recognizing…
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Courageous compassion
What it means to have great compassion and make it part of daily life.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Connecting with compassion
The importance of having compassionate individuals in our lives, who can inspire our own practice…
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The importance of regular practice
The benefits of a regular meditation practice, the obstacles that may arise and how to…
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The four immeasurables
The four immeasurables—love, compassion, joy and equanimity—present a way to relate to other living beings…
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Compassionate thinking and mentalizing
To develop compassion, we want to nurture beneficial and realistic ways of thinking and avoid…
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Compassion and empathy
How empathy is a core component of compassion, both in being able to feel compassion…
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The four opponent powers
Explaining the four opponent powers of purification, and encouraging us to take responsibility for our…
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Stories of forgiveness
Continuing with the Gift of Forgiveness retreat, discussing various stories of forgiveness to illustrate the…
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Understanding disturbing emotions
Leading a question and answer session and exploring how to understand our disturbing emotions so…
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The disadvantages of holding grudges
Beginning the Gift of Forgiveness retreat, discussing the disadvantages of anger, overcoming a culture of…
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Working with judgement and partiality
A look at the source of our judgement and bias, its influence on interactions, and…
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