Working With the Hard Stuff

Helpful talks and meditations for working with life’s difficulties, from troublesome emotions to physical pain, from Diana Winston, Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo, Lama Rod Owens, and Lama Tsomo.

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Diana Winston: Working With Difficult Emotions & Physical Pain

The director of mindfulness education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center offers ways to bring a compassionate mind to the suffering and pain that we encounter, including a guided meditation.

Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo: Why Our Emotions Cause Us Suffering

Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo share a Vajrayana Buddhist perspective on how to find relief from the suffering our emotions can bring us.

Lama Rod Owens: Love and Rage and Letting Go

Teacher, author, and radical black activist Lama Rod Owens explores what it means to let go of the person you think you are, and how to face the discomfort and brokenheartedness that comes with working to liberate yourself and others.

Guided Tonglen Meditation with Lama Tsomo

Lama Tsomo shares a guided meditation to apply your personal practice to widening social circles, and to move from fear into love.

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