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.”

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

Disturbing emotions are those that make us lose peace of mind and self-control.

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

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

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

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

With an extensive presentation of harmful situations that befall us, their karmic causes and the ways of behaving that will counter them, Dharmarakshita leads us to the practice of tonglen, giving and taking.

The main issue in Buddhist sexual ethics is to avoid being obsessive about and glorifying sex.

Analyzing our negative emotions is the key for overcoming them.