By Juliana Breines — 2013
What can we do to disarm the green-eyed monster when it strikes?
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In 1989, at one of the first international Buddhist teacher meetings, Western teachers brought up the enormous problem of unworthiness and self-criticism, shame and self-hatred that frequently they arise in Western students’ practice.
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