
Emotions

Tibetan Lama Za Choeje Rinpoche on how to be aware of awareness in our day-to-day lives

‘Know Hatred Completely’
A Soto Zen priest reckons with the koan of racism and comes to view Buddhism as a practice of engaged liberation.

Forgetting the Self at a Party Full of Strangers
How tending to the very thing we fear can offer a path to awakening

Purification Is a Psychological Process
“We create negativity with our mind so we purify it by creating positivity with our mind.”

The Buddha’s Alternative to Acting out in Anger
Thanissaro Bhikkhu explains how to use the three fabrications—bodily, verbal, and mental—to understand and skillfully work with anger.

Practicing Fearless Metta
Instead of avoiding or suppressing fear, meditation teacher Kevin Griffin offers a third option—meeting our fear with care and kindness.

Buddhist Wisdom for Handling Moral Outrage
According to scholar Allison Aitken, divisive tribalism is nothing new. In a recent episode of Tricycle Talks, she discusses how 8th-century Buddhist texts can help us heal contemporary divisions.

The Power of Awareness and Compassion to Transform Our World
Thupten Jinpa, the Dalai Lama’s long-time English translator, explains how Buddhist contemplative wisdom can lead to greater emotional balance and address contemporary challenges in large-scale systems from education to healthcare.

The Not-Knowing of Our Time
The dharma invites us to embrace painful energies as teachers.

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