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 Samten The kindness of others
Contemplating the kindness of others promotes a feeling of being connected and establishes a firm…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Equalizing and exchanging self and others
Equalizing ourselves and others means recognizing that others wish for joy and freedom from misery…
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Venerable Thubten Jigme Love and compassion
Developing love and compassion, steps four and five of the seven-point instruction to cultivate altruism,…
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The seven-point instruction of cause and effect
How to reflect on the first three steps of the seven-point instruction to recognize the…
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Cultivating compassion and equanimity
Equanimity, a mind free from bias and indifference, is important in order to have the…
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Imagery and method acting: Cultivating our compassio...
How we can use our imagination to develop compassion and other positive qualities.
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Establishing compassionate habits
As with learning any new skill or habit, it takes purposeful effort to establish compassionate…
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Beyond Blame
How it's possible to go beyond blaming others or our self and work together to…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Being responsible for our emotions
When disturbing emotions arise we have a choice. The Buddhist teachings offer practical methods to…
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How to have a happy mind
Happiness comes from internal transformation. How to use Buddhist teachings to change our own motivation…
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Building confidence to live your life to the fullest
What it means to have confidence, and how to develop stable self-confidence through self-acceptance and…
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Seeing the kindness of all beings
When we recognize how friends, strangers and even those we have difficulty with are kind…
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