How do Buddhism and emotions intersect? Emotions, like thoughts, can be great teachers, and mindfulness meditation can help us relate to them. In some cases, Buddhist wisdom and practice can help us some negative emotions or afflictions (kleshas), and in other cases, it can help us cultivate positive mental or heart states, like loving-kindness and compassion.
In this episode of Life As It Is, Korean Zen monk Haemin Sunim offers a guide to transforming life’s unexpected challenges into opportunities for awakening.
In this episode of Tricycle Talks, meditation teacher Tara Brach discusses how radical acceptance can free us from feelings of inadequacy and isolation.
In an excerpt from her new online course, “Real Life,” Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg provides strategies for dealing with intrusive thoughts and painful mind states.