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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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Venerable Chodron signs a book for a Dharma student at Tibet House Frankfurt.
Working with Emotions

Cultivating emotional balance

Learning to handle our emotions instead of being under their control strengthens and makes us…

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A group of young people work together outside harmoniously.
Cultivating Healthy Relationships

How ignorance interferes with good relationships

When we have some awareness of the karmic system of actions and effects it enables…

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A group of young people work together outside harmoniously.
Cultivating Healthy Relationships

How attachment prevents having good relationships

It's hard to see attachment as a problem in relationships. If we can look at…

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A group of young people work together outside harmoniously.
Cultivating Healthy Relationships

How anger impedes good relationships

There is meaning and satisfaction in healthy relationships. Recognizing how anger creates problems in relationships…

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Contentment and Happiness

Caught up in consumerism

Acquiring things and going into debt does not fill up the empty hole of dissatisfaction.…

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Cultivating Compassion

Transforming the mind with compassion

How to cultivate compassion and transform the mind that insists on taking care of "ME."

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Chalkboard with the words "Wake up!" written on it.
On Refuge and Bodhicitta

Keep it simple, stupid

A student examines the reasons for studying the Dharma.

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Image of the Wheel of Life.
On Impermanence

Reflections on rebirth

Grappling with the concept of rebirth in our Western culture.

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Young man looking down angrily.
On Working with Afflictions

I’m not an angry person, or am I?

Even when we think we have escaped the three poisons of anger, attachment, and ignorance,…

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Piece of chocolate cake.
Prison Poetry

Big piece

Complaining about our lot just leads to more confinement. An incarcerated person talks about contentment.

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Lights from a car accident at night.
Students' Insights

Hit head-on? Pray!

A student responds to a potentially serious automobile accident.

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Medical professionals performing surgery.
Living with Impermanence

Practicing when having surgery

A monastic at Sravasti Abbey relies on her Dharma practice when facing surgery.

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