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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 dharma invites us to embrace painful energies as teachers.
Ask yourself, ‘What brings me joy?’ Then see what happens.
How my anger led me to insight
We can never really prepare ourselves for the reality of suffering. But we can understand our fear of suffering.
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A Buddhist practitioner faces his fears of horror movies and roller coasters with the help of his meditation practice.
The head of the Drukpa School of Tibetan Buddhism teaches us how compassion can make sure that we’re not fractured by differences.
A practitioner reflects on her knee-jerk reaction to the disgraced comedian’s guilty verdict.