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Depression

For when the heart is heavy. The dharma does not promise to take the weather away but to change one's relation to it.

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Knowledge

Gandharan relief of the Buddha's first sermon at Sarnath

Core Teachings

The Four Noble Truths

The Buddha's first teaching after awakening — delivered at Sarnath to the five ascetics — laid out the diagnosis of suffering, its cause, its cessation, and the path that leads beyond it. Every later teaching is a commentary on these four.

Portrait of Sharon Salzberg, teacher of loving-kindness meditation

Practices

Metta — Loving-Kindness

The cultivation of unconditional good-will toward all beings. The first of the four brahmaviharas, the 'divine abidings' — and the antidote the Buddha gave to a forest of monks who could not stay in their forest.

Portrait of Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Practices

Sati — Mindfulness

The continuous, non-judgmental awareness of what is arising in the present moment. The Buddha's central instruction — and the gateway through which the dharma has entered the West.

Teachings

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How to Free Oneself from Depression

The opening day of the vassa (rains-retreat) discourse series at Rajkiya Buddha Vihara, Lumbini — a teaching on the inner work of recovering from depression.

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