How to identify our feelings and look at the role they play in communicating and connecting with others.
An Open-Hearted Life: Identifying our feelings
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Meditation on compassion for friends, strangers, and enemies
A guided meditation on developing compassion for friends, strangers, and those who create harm.
Afflictions, our real enemy
Completing Chapter 4, describing how to use afflictions to overcome afflictions and seeing afflictions as our enemy and courageously counteracting them.
An Open-Hearted Life: Compassionate communication
How to bring compassion to our communication and how to look at situations objectively without assumptions.
Guided meditation: Compassion for our enemies
A guided analytical meditation to cultivate compassion for those we have difficulty with or who cause problems.
Counterforces to the afflictions
Teaching from Chapter 4, describing various counterforces to the afflictions, such as anger, attachment, arrogance and jealousy.
Feelings and the ethical dimension of afflictions
Continuing the teachings from Chapter 4, explaining the relationship between three types of feelings and afflictions and ethical dimension of afflictions.
Monasticism in the West
A question and answer session about Buddhist monasticism in the West.
Taming the mind
The importance of taming our minds in relation to others we live with.
The role of a monastic
The importance of learning the Dharma with the right motivation.