2004
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
96 min
CLEAR ALL
Applying Buddhist teachings to emotional healing with relationships, marriage, and lust.
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Many years ago, I read a moving article by a hospice caregiver who had accompanied thousands of people during their final weeks. One phrase, in particular, has stayed with me.
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Tara Brach is a renowned meditation teacher and clinical psychologist whose books include Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. “We spend huge swathes of our lives in what I call the ‘trance of unworthiness.’”
In recent years scientists have discovered that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance our sense of well-being.
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For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much—just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.
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