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by the Buddhist Anagārika Pasannacitta

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Five Buddhist Techniques Anyone Can Use To Reduce Anger (Right Now)

4/5/2023

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When anger and other strong emotions arise, use these five approaches to skilfully overcome your suffering.
5 Buddhist Steps To Overcome Anger (Right Now)

You don't have to be a Buddhist to use these techniques to overcome your anger and move forward gracefully, skilfully, and peacefully.


​​In this short "dharma bite," I provide five concise techniques that come from Buddhism that anyone (Buddhist or not) can use in-the-moment or after-the-fact to help reduce the heat of discontentment and cool the flames of anger.  This article includes a short guided meditation.

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TEACHING SERIES — VEDANĀS PART 1: What are your feelings, Why do they hurt

1/2/2023

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Vedanās: A Complete Guide to Feelings in Buddhism (and How to Actually Use This Teaching To Be Happy) — Part 1
​by Anagārika Pasannacitta
​(Anagārika Michael Turner)
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What are vedanās (feelings) in Buddhism? Definitively clearing up this oft-misunderstood subject and understanding how to apply this teaching in everyday life to practically lay the foundation for contentment, peace of mind, and actual progress toward nibbāna.

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Vedanā Series Overview
 — PART 1 — 
  • What are feelings in Buddhism?​​
  • What are the vedanās?
  • How are they connected and affected by other Buddhist concepts about who we are?
  • How is it that they can influence our moods so profoundly?
  • How can we apply the understanding of the vedanās in ways that genuinely help us to be happy all the time?
  • Can we actually avoid ever having bad days? (spoiler: yes!)

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AUDIO: Tonglen Meditation — Benefits and Techniques to Cultivate Compassion and Awakening [Dharma Talk MP3]

7/7/2022

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The Taking-and-Giving Meditation: a detailed dharma talk on how to do it and what the techniques, benefits, and results are; and using it to cultivate compassion to overcome your own pain, stress, and suffering.
Tonglen meditation to ease suffering and overcome problems

Using Tonglen meditation to ease suffering, overcome problems, cultivate the brahmavihārās, and attain Buddhist awakening (streamentry)


​In this dharma talk I dive into the details of a somewhat-lesser-known meditation technique that anyone can use to overcome mental suffering, physical pain, and generate deep and transformative states of compassion and gratitude. I also cover the importance of Right Effort, determination, and good teachers, and how these are critical to cultivating resilient states of contentment and to making spiritual progress.

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Right Speech: How to Give Constructive Feedback That Doesn't Get Rejected.

1/11/2022

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How the fundamentals of Buddhist Right Speech can help you give skilful advice and feedback that gets heard.
How the fundamentals of Buddhist Right Speech can help you give skilful advice and feedback that gets heard.

How to use Buddhist Right Speech


​In this teaching, I share how Buddhists can use the teachings of Buddhist Right Speech and Mindfulness to offer unsolicited advice to others, skilfully and kindly, and in ways that promote harmony, mutual respect, and appreciation from and for the people whom we have around us.

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What Are the Eight Worldly Concerns and Why Must We Let Them Go?

10/28/2021

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How being free of stress and anxiety means letting go of the things that you think will make you happy.
What are the Eight Worldly Concerns and how do they relate to your pursuit of happiness and your freedom from worry, stress, and anxiety.

Stress and anxiety are signs that you're doing something wrong.


​In this article, we will cover what the Eight Worldly Concerns are and how they relate to your pursuit of happiness and your freedom from worry, stress, and anxiety.

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The Importance of Thinking About Death (and How It Can Help You) - Buddhism

5/12/2020

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Despite common misconceptions, buddhists are not obsessed with death, they are obsessed with happiness.
Thinking about death

Embracing Life by letting go of Death


​​What is the point of thinking about death? Is it morbid or is it useful? And how can it be used by non-Buddhists to cope with dying, death, or loss?

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    Anagārika Michael Turner Buddhist Teacher, Dhamma Trainer, Dharma Coach
    Anagārika Pasannacitta

    Hi! My name is Michael Turner (my Dhamma name is Pasannacitta).

    ​I am a pre-monastic sakadāgāmi, early Buddhist teacher, enlightenment and streamentry (awakening) mentor, resilience and happiness counsellor,  meditation instructor, transformative personal coach, and full-time Buddhist anagārika.

    ​I've spent more than 30 years learning and cultivating what I do, and what I do goes far beyond meditation and dharma.

    I work with Buddhist practitioners of all levels to help them attain measurable spiritual progress toward Nibbāna. This special kind of one-on-one training isn't readily available to lay practitioners and I hope to do my part as I prepare to prepare to become a monk and enter into full-time Buddhist monastic life.

    Our Dhamma-vinaya student community is donation-funded and I'm available for serious and dedicated practitioners of meditation-and-dharma to course-correct their views, understandings, and practices to help them overcome the challenges and problems that hold them back from making progress along the path toward Buddhist enlightenment. This isn't hocus-pocus, this is practical- and applied-Buddhism, and your progress will be the result of dedication and effort.

    It is worth noting that what is on-offer here is very special.  I am a skilled pre-monastic early Buddhist ācariya and I will be a Buddhist monk, scholar, and teacher.  There are few people outside of authentic Buddhist monasteries who can genuinely offer this kind of applied guidance and advanced training to lay practitioners.​

    Please visit my home page and my about me to learn more about my style and what it is that I teach.

    "The only thing that prevents people from attaining Enlightenment and experiencing Nirvana directly is insufficient instruction and/or practice."

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Anagārika Michael Turner Pasannacitta Buddhist Teacher Philosopher, Dharma Coach, Meditation Instructor, Business Leader, Success Trainer, Mentor, Leadership Adviser, Executive Mentor
Michael Turner is a full-time Buddhist anagārika and ariya-puggala; he is also a deeply accomplished streamentry mentor, dharma teacher, and, c-level leadership advisor and personal success coach. He emphasises and teaches practical techniques and teachings for our everyday lives to overcome the problems that stand in the way of making veritable progress toward our goals and happiness; he is particularly adept at explaining them in ways that can be easily understood and practiced in the West. He has been meditating and cultivating views and techniques that generate indestructible resilience, inner-strength, and direct experience for more than 30 years and has helped countless numbers of students and clients course-correct their practice to make veritable progress toward happiness, success, and nibbāna.


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