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Pain Not Suffering

By Darlene Cohen, Shinzen Young, Reginald Ray — 2007

As long as we have bodies, we will have physical pain. Buddhism promises no escape from that. What we can change is how we experience pain.

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Buddhism for Beginners

New to Buddhism or meditation? Then you probably have a lot of questions — and here you’ll find helpful answers, by way of articles from Lion’s Roar and Buddhadharma.

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Lion's Roar Staff
2017
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Are You Looking to Buddhism When You Should Be Looking to Therapy?

The ultimate goal of Buddhist practice isn’t about achieving mental health.

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C. W. Huntington, Jr.
2018
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Guidelines for Choosing a Buddhist Teacher

You may be perfectly content to study and practice the dharma on your own, without a Buddhist teacher or community. But the time may come when you feel that isn’t enough, and you decide you want to seek one out.

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Lewis Richmond
2010
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Finding Your Buddhist Teacher

The first step in finding a Buddhist teacher is clarifying why you need one.

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Barbara O'Brien
2018
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When Sadness Rages Like Fire

Throughout his profound spiritual awakening, the great Tibetan yogi Shabkar experienced immense loss resulting in grief marked by raw pain, a sense of disorientation, sadness, and tears.

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Pema Khandro
2020
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How Can a Buddhist Strive to “Save All Beings” Without Inflating Their Ego?

Instead of believing we are such great people for helping others, we can thank all beings for allowing us to be of service.

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Myokei Caine-Barrett, Rebecca Li, Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
2018
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The Practice of Loving-Kindness (Metta) as Taught by the Buddha in the Pali Canon

The word "love"—one of the most compelling in the English language—is commonly used for purposes so widely separated, so gross and so rarefied, as to render it sometimes nearly meaningless.

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Ñanamoli Thera
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The Buddhist Practice of Loving Kindness (Metta)

Loving-kindness is defined in English dictionaries as a feeling of benevolent affection, but in Buddhism, loving-kindness (in Pali, Metta; in Sanskrit, Maitri) is thought of as a mental state or attitude, cultivated and maintained by practice.

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Barbara O'Brien
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Balancing the Brain Toward Joy

In her best-selling book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey, Taylor details the process for recovery and the insight she’s gained about the different functions of the left and right halves of her brain.

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David Kupfer, Jill Bolte Taylor
2012
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Buddhism and Karma Introduction to the Buddhist Understanding of Karma

Karma is a word everyone knows, yet few in the West understand what it means. Westerners too often think it means "fate" or is some kind of cosmic justice system. This is not a Buddhist understanding of karma, however.

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Barbara O'Brien
2019
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