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A Buddhist Guide to Understanding Emotion

A Buddhist Guide to Understanding Emotion

Scholar Maria Heim discusses how the Buddhist psychology of emotions can offer us a different way of observing and relating to our feelings—and, in the process, bring about a sense of freedom.

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