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#meditation #lamrim meditation #Buddhist meditation #self-compassion #loving kindness

#meditation #lamrim meditation #Buddhist meditation #compassion #tonglen

#meditation #lamrim meditation #Buddhist meditation #self-compassion #compassion

What is the nature of attachment, and what kind of problems are related to attachment? What are the advantages of having less attachment, and how can we reflect on impermanence and practice contentment, the two main antidotes to attachment. The root cause for the disturbing emotions is the self-grasping mind. How do we grasp at a self? Does the self exist or not? By contemplating on the empty n...

After a short introduction, the general antidotes to the disturbing emotions are explained. After this, the antidotes to the specific disturbing emotions are explained. In this video anger is discussed: what are the disadvantages of getting angry, and how do we practice patience and loving kindness, the two main antidotes to anger? The teaching is followed by a meditation on love, which starts ...

The last three videos of this series on Becoming your Own Therapists discusses how we can create the causes for happiness and freedom from suffering in a skillful manner. We first of all need to develop a healthy relationship with ourselves and learn how to be with unpleasant experiences. How do we do this? Then we need to know what the causes are for our suffering. According to the Buddha this...

What we experience as happiness refers to the pleasures of samsara. Motivated by the eight worldly concerns, which means being concerned with just the happiness of this life, we strive to attain pleasurable experiences, and to be free from unpleasant feelings. We do this by following our attachment and aversion, our emotional reactions to pleasure and displeasure. It looks like attachment and a...

No matter how hard we try, if we keep following our feelings in order to be happy, we’ll never get what we really want, and we’ll always suffer. The main reason for this that we cannot see the nature of reality; we cannot see the nature of our existence. To understand this better she explains how both the perceptual and the conceptual mind work, and how we mix the appearances of these minds and...

After a short introduction to the course, Ven. Jamyang discusses why we need a therapist: we all want to be happy and free of suffering. According to Buddhist philosophy we all have a mind that is by nature pure, like the blue sky unobstructed by clouds. In our current state however, disturbing emotions arise effortlessly in our mind, like clouds in the sky. They disturb and cloud the mind, and...

We find happiness by doing what we like and avoiding what we don’t like. Although this method can lead to the experience of some pleasure, when we look deeper into it, we can see that it never brings is real satisfaction. There is always something missing, or we want more. How we can transform our way of finding happiness into a method that bring us the happiness we are looking for? The teachin...

In this teaching, venerable Jamyang explains how at the moment our love is mixed with attachment. We wish others to be happy as long as there is some benefit in the relationship for us as well. In order to purify our love from this attachment we can contemplate the disadvantages of attachment and the advantages of practicing its antidotes. We can also apply reasonings in order to let go of our ...

The first teaching in the series "Opening the Heart" is on loving kindness. What are the benefits of practicing loving kindness for oneself and others? If we look deeper into this we can see that practicing loving kindness is a way to fulfill some of our own needs: it makes us happier, healthier, and more enthusiastic, and we are less likely to get burned-out and depressed. Also to others and t...

Having obstacles to achieving what you want, lacking self-confidence, not being able to use your good qualities effectively, having resistance to engaging in certain actions can be the result of negative karma and/or lack of merit. How can we be with our suffering experiences so that we do not add to the suffering we already experience? How do we practice self-compassion in a skillful way? The ...

Why is it so difficult to have self-compassion? Where or how do we develop the belief that we are not good enough or that we are not loveable? And how can we release our negative experiences of the past? The teaching is followed by a meditation on forgiveness. The meditation starts at 1:13:37. The next teaching in this series on Self Compassion you can find here: th-cam.com/video/sMsUK3XywpI/w-...

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