Actualizing the Perfection of Patience
Lama Yeshe teaches on Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend and the importance of developing patience in situations where strong emotions arise.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Anger
Teachings
Don't Be Shortsighted
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that Dharma practice needs continual effort for a long time in order to achieve liberation and enlightenment, in this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions
Suicide Is Not the Solution
In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that instead of ending our life by committing suicide, we can use this precious human rebirth to bring benefit and happiness to ourselves and others.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
The Remedy to Depression Is a Good Heart and Purification (Video)
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that depression and anxiety can be overcome by practicing the good heart and cherishing others instead of oneself.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression
Joyful Parents, Successful Children
Advice on how to bring up children and make their lives meaningful.
Topics:
Family and Relationships > Parenting
Chapters:
Joyful Parents, Successful Children
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Raising Children With Bodhicitta
2. Making a Relationship Meaningful
+ View all
Feeling Suicidal
Advice for people who are contemplating suicide. Rinpoche explains how to use depression on the path to enlightenment, by changing our focus from self to others.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
Child Depressed and Suicidal
Contemplating Suicide
Depression After Best Friend Passed Away
Depression and Suicidal Thoughts
+ View All
Advice on Depression
Advice on how to transform depression and use it on the path to enlightenment.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression > Advice on Depression
Advice and Practices for Depression and Long Life
Advice on Transforming Depression
Balloon Mantras for Daughter's Depression
Battling with Depression
+ View All
Desire and Attachment
Advice on how to overcome attachment by reflecting on the nature of the body, the sufferings of samsara, and the emptiness, or lack of true existence, of the object of attachment.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Desire and Attachment
A Vacation from Attachment
Attachment and Ordination
Attachment to a Good Reputation
Clinging to Worldly Pleasure
+ View All
Bringing up Children
Advice on raising children in the best possible way by teaching them the five basic qualities of kindness, rejoicing, tolerance, contentment and forgiveness.
Topics:
Family and Relationships > Parenting > Bringing up Children
A Good Education and a Meaningful Life
Advice on Educating a Child
Caring for a Child With Special Needs
Guiding Children to a Happy Life
+ View All
Anger
Advice on how to eliminate anger by practicing patience and thus contributing to world peace.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Anger
Parenting Problems
Advice on how to resolve parenting problems by focusing on the good heart, loving kindness and compassion for others.
Topics:
Family and Relationships > Parenting > Parenting Problems
A Bad Mother?
Abusive Teenager
Growing Up Too Fast
Negative Emotions, Broken Commitments and Ill-health
+ View All
Purifying Depression
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression > Purifying Depression
Practices for Depression
Problems Come From Karma and Delusions
Puja and Recitations for Depression
Purification Practice for Depression
+ View All
Using Depression to Cut the Ego
Long-term Depression
Use Your Depression to Destroy the Ego
Using Depression on the Path
Ways to Think about Depression
+ View All