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At the center of your being, you have the answer. – Lao Tzu

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Category: difficult person

May 16, 2022 difficult person / metta / Relationship / veils

Unveiling :: Tending prickly relationships

Is there are prickly person in your life? This dharma post will help you to skillfully mend your relationship or let it go.

November 19, 2021 difficult person / holidays / meditation / negativity bias / Relationship / veils

Unveiling :: Coping with difficult people

When we have people in our lives we find difficult, the veil metaphor can help us relate to them more skillfully.

March 6, 2020 challenges / craving / difficult person / Eightfold Path / meditation / Wise Action

It’s not the load that breaks you down

Lean Horne said “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” This dharma post explores how to handle life challenges from a wiser perspective, making wiser choices and lightening the load.

August 4, 2018 anger / aversion / difficult emotions / difficult person / meditation / thoughts

Grudges, pet peeves and other tangled mental knots

  One of the greatest benefits of meditation for me has been to be able to see thoughts and emotions

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July 8, 2017 alienation / difficult emotions / difficult person / fear / inquiry / judgment / low self-esteem / negative emotions / overcoming fear

Exploring our relationship with the ‘enemy’

On especially hot days I am reminded of the summers I spent in Philadelphia when I was in my late

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September 21, 2014 buttons / difficult person / power and gender / projection

Is Somebody Pushing Your Buttons?

Years ago I began to notice a mental pattern of getting annoyed and aggravated by women who were powerful. No

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August 19, 2012 difficult person / Four Brahmaviharas / loving kindness / metta / Relationship

Loving Kindness Shifts Relationships

In exploring metta, the practice of sending loving kindness, we come to the challenge of sending it to a ‘difficult’

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October 7, 2010 difficult person / Kalu Rinpoche quote / loving kindness / metta / politics / Sylvia Boorstein / Third Noble Truth

Meta-Metta

Immense compassion springs forth spontaneously toward all sentient beings who suffer as prisoners of their illusions.– Kalu Rinpoche This political

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August 29, 2008 difficult person / loving kindness / metta / namaste

Sending Loving Kindness to Difficult People

Most people struggle at first with sending metta (loving kindness) to difficult people. Who is a difficult person? It could

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Stephanie Noble

Since 2004, Stephanie has taught her Thursday women's insight meditation group, now on Zoom. Contact for an invitation. She serves as a board member of the Buddhist Insight Network.

“Stephanie is an experienced Buddhist teacher with a deep practice and a very kind heart. My meditation group is fortunate to receive the benefits of her presence and teaching.”
– Rick Hanson, PhD., N.Y. Times bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain, Neurodharma, and other books

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