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Tara Brach: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom, Part II

By Tara Brach — 2018

The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potential, we each have deep conditioning to get stuck in feelings of fear, deficiency and separation from others. See more...

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Thubten Chodron on how to develop bodhichitta, the aspiration to attain buddhahood in order to benefit others.

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The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation

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Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to Happiness

Awakening Joy is more than just another book about happiness. More than simply offering suggested strategies to change our behavior, it uses time-tested practices to train the mind to learn new ways of thinking.

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