hatred

To be less conflicted with others, be less conflicted within yourself

When we experience conflict with or ill will toward another person it's obvious that there’s something about them that causes…

December 15, 2017

How to make enemies

I've been making a lot of enemies lately. People I don't even know. A guy passes me on the street…

September 4, 2013

Dealing with resentment (Day 47)

Resentment is seductive. We assume on some level that it's going to help us, but it doesn't. It just causes…

May 28, 2013

Meditation is death of the ego

Our whole education, culture, civilisation is a training in how to become unreal, and how to prevent yourself from becoming…

April 17, 2013

How to get rid of resentment

Ann Lamott, in her novel Crooked Little Heart, says that holding onto resentment is like eating rat poison and waiting…

November 9, 2011

Feeding the wolf of love

I once heard a Native American teaching story in which an elder, a grandmother, was asked what she had done…

October 20, 2011

Anxiety, depression, anger… Paths to purification?

Contrary to what you might think, negative emotions are not “bad” things we need to get rid of. Sunada sees…

March 27, 2008

Learning hatred

Hatred is not innate. It is learned. We are not born with hatred in our hearts, but we are born…

January 22, 2008

Lyman Abbott: Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them <em>how</em> to be angry.

Once when I was listening to the Dalai Lama talk in Edinburgh, he was asked a question that went something…

April 10, 2007