How we can work over time to replace troublesome thoughts and emotions with more compassionate ones, and establish new, compassionate mental habits.
“An Open-Hearted Life”: Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions
These are the latest articles with video on this website, but you might be able to find even more recent videos on our YouTube channel. Also watch Venerable Thubten Chodron teaching the Dharma on live video every week.
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These are the latest articles with video on this website, but you might be able to find even more recent videos on our YouTube channel. Also watch Venerable Thubten Chodron teaching the Dharma on live video every week.
Mind and emotions
Beginning Chapter 3: Mind and Emotions, exploring the relationship between unhappiness and non-virtue.
Proving mutual inclusion
Explaining how to prove mutual inclusion, and leading the class in doing Exercises 11.1 and 11.2.
The possibility of ending duhkha
Covering the sections “Dependent Arising and the Three Jewels” and “The Possibility of Ending Duhkha.”
Proving four possibilities and mutual exclusion
Covering the sections “Proving Four Possibilities” and “Proving Mutual Exclusion.”
The four truths of the aryas
Covering the sections “The Four Truths of the Aryas” and “Dependent Arising and Emptiness.”
Nonassociated compositional factors that are not persons
Finishing Chapter 10 with the section on Nonassociated Compositional Factors That Are Not Persons and beginning Chapter 11.
“An Open-Hearted Life”: The power of optimism and types of emotion
How an optimistic attitude is important in maintaining compassion. A look at different ways to understand, and work with, our emotions.
Body, mind, rebirth and self
Continuing Chapter 2 and covering the section “Body, Mind, Rebirth and Self.”
Nonassociated compositional factors
Reviewing the Mental Consciousness section and covering the sections on Sense Consciousnesses and Nonassociated Composition Factors.
