Dharma in Action

The real meaning of Dharma practice is to transform our minds. The rubber meets the road when we get off the cushion and live our practice in daily life.

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Healing Anger

Healing prejudice

Looking at news headlines, our world seems to be increasingly divided. How healing our minds…

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Ethics in the Modern World

Morality in a modern world

In the modern age, technology enables more ways to engage in the ten paths of…

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Workplace Wisdom

Practicing compassion in helping professions

How those in the helping professions can cultivate attitudes and approaches beneficial to working with…

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Cultivating Compassion

“An Open-Hearted Life”: Living with auth...

An important part of living an authentic life is genuine compassion and it is a…

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Healing Anger

Giving up the blame game

How to stop blaming ourselves and others for our problems, develop a broader view of…

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Love and Self-esteem

No need to fake it: Developing true self-confidence

Our good qualities, the basic purity of our mind and inborn potential, are the basis…

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On Refuge and Bodhicitta

So, now what?

Can practicing the Dharma help with how we are feeling about the recent election? A…

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Practicing Democracy

A call for empathy

Comments on Michael Lerner's article "Stop Shaming Trump Supporters," and an email from a student…

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Practicing Democracy

How to think about the election

Venerable Thubten Chodron continues to discuss the election and how to use it to investigate…

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Practicing Democracy

Responding to the election results

Venerable Thubten Chodron responds to the results of the presidential election.

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