Khenpo Chonyi Rangdrol explains how mindfulness helps us have less anger and be more successful in our lives.

According to Buddhist and other spiritual teachings, basic human nature is fundamentally good. In Buddhism this is known as “basic goodness.” The idea is that at our most absolute core, rock bottom level, there is really no problem, and in fact we are brilliant, awake, and sane people…

Tulku Lama Lobsang, a Tibetan Buddhist lama speaks on happiness, how we forget we have it, and how mindfulness can help us remember.

Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of mindfulness based stress reduction, a form of mindfulness training taught widely in mainstream contexts. This talk presents an introduction to some of the ideas of mindfulness, awareness, and presence to ‘things as they are’.

Two essential ingredients we need when making any transformational journey are gentleness and discipline. These two go hand in hand, and one without the other inevitably leads us astray.

Gentleness is the quality of being kind to ourselves. We need to go easy and treat ourselves with love and tenderness as we work with our angry state of mind…

In order to make progress with the anger in our life, an effective tool is the ability to have mindful presence. Simply stated, mindful presence is the ability to be there with ourself and our state of mind, while at the same time having some sense of perspective, being able to step back and release ourselves from being caught up in our thoughts and dramas…

Here are a few pointers for beginning a regular meditation practice…

Anger management and mindfulness are a not traditional pairing in the anger management world, but that is changing as mindfulness based stress reduction and mindfulness based cognitive therapy become more prevalent in the therapeutic disciplines…

Mindfulness meditation is a profound and practical method to ease the struggling mind. By sitting quietly and being present with our experience in a simple way, our wildness gradually calms down and over time we discover our inherent sane qualities…

One of the reasons we experience anger is because we are out of sync with the ordinary goodness of being alive. We are out of touch with the natural positive aspects of being human, and this disconnection leaves us anxious and angry…

The meditation instruction takes 30 min. Before you listen to the recording, here are a couple of things to attend to…