Disturbing Emotions

Beru Khyentse Rinpoche’s commentary to the fourth chapter of Longchenpa’s “Precious Garland for the Four Themes of (Gampopa),” entitled “Purifying Confusion into Deep Awareness.”

Tips for overcoming anxiety, to live a more confident life.

The entire scope of mind training to transform negative attitudes into positive ones is summarized in eight verses.

Distinguish the person from their behavior, to forgive them without condoning their actions.

Even though attachment is a disturbing emotion, developing attachment to our teachers does have a certain benefit, since it leads to trust. What we need to watch out for is exaggerating their good qualities.

Working with Buddha-family traits entails both quieting down to recognize the traits that have always been there, as well as stimulating them to grow.

Disturbing emotions occur not only in conceptual cognitions, which are always mental cognition, but also in non-conceptual sensory and mental cognition.

An overview of the various Indian tenet systems’ view on how we view ourselves as persons in relation to the samsara-perpetuating five aggregates.

By applying methods for developing patience, we can avoid the problems that anger causes.

The ancient Indian teachings on the mind, emotions, cognition, and logic can be of great benefit to the modern world.