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Venerable Thubten Chodron

Pioneering American Buddhist teacher and founder of Sravasti Abbey, co-author of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion book series with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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Dealing with Difficult Emotions

Watch Venerable Sangye Khadro’s talk exploring how to work with uncertainty and grief.

The Buddha emphasized the importance of reflecting on impermanence. Our body and mind, other beings, and phenomena in the world don't remain the same even from one moment to the next. They're constantly changing.”

Our tendency to see things as fixed and permanent causes a lot of problems. We want the people we love to always be there and never change, and that's asking for the impossible. This unrealistic expectation leads to unhappiness.”

Developing compassion involves having an awareness that people and other beings experience suffering. Everybody has problems—even celebrities and billionaires. Every being has suffering, and every being deserves compassion.”

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Buddhist wisdom for managing our emotions

How disturbing emotions keep us bound in samsara and two…

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Disturbing emotions and the mind

Positive and negative emotions, methods of expressing them, and advice…

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A rainbow appears in the gray sky above the treeline.

Understanding disturbing emotions

Leading a question and answer session and exploring how to…

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Compassionate understanding of emotions

How a compassionate understanding of how emotions play out in…

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Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions

How we can work over time to replace troublesome thoughts…

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Mind and emotions

Beginning Chapter 3: Mind and Emotions, exploring the relationship between…

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Mere conventions and conventional truths

Answers to questions on conventional truths.

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Advice to Sravasti Abbey’s Monastic Community

In an environment like this, which is so conducive to…

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Foulness of the body

Explaining the section on mindfulness of the foulness of the…

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Bodily formation and four postures

Continuing with the practice of breathing meditation, specifically Calming the…

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Meaning of the words convention and truth

Explanation of the different meanings of conventional truth.

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How the buddha taught the dharma

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe describes the different ways in which the…

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The boundless heart

The four immeasurable qualities and the benefits of cultivating them.

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Mindfulness of breathing

Concluding an overview of mindfulness of the body and explaining…

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The purpose of dividing the two truths

How the two truths are one entity but different isolates.

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Book cover of Buddhism for Beginners

Buddhism for Beginners

An accessible and engaging introduction to some of the most commonly asked questions about the es...

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Book cover of Guided Buddhist Meditations

Guided Buddhist Meditations

This invaluable resource provides Dharma practitioners with clear explanations of the stages of t...

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Working with Anger

A variety of Buddhist methods for subduing anger, not by changing what is happening, but by worki...

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Driving the Dharma Home

Just as a driver’s manual steers us to travel safely, “Driving the Dharma Home”...

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The Key of Compassion by Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron. A row of gray prison cells with golden flowers blooming through the bars of one cell.

The Key of Compassion

Evidence of the power of compassion in the lives of incarcerated people, from the experience of t...

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Pearl of Wisdom, Book I

A compilation of prayers and practices commonly taught to people beginning to study and practice ...

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Awakening the Kind Heart

Consideration for others helps make our relationships and interactions with others more satisfyin...

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Book cover of Appearing and Empty

Appearing and Empty

In this third and final volume on emptiness, the authors impart the Prasangika view of the ultima...

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Book cover of "Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path"

Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path

The final volume of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Vener...

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